The Palestinian Poet Who Refuses to Be the Court Jester of Israeli Literature

Ayman Kamel Agbaria, who has just published his poems in Hebrew, used to write about the Nakba. Then he met Emile Habibi

'Each One Tells My Story': Asylum Seekers in Tel Aviv Draw Inspiration From Making Dark-skinned Dolls

Some victims of torture and rape, these women are creating dolls to cater for demand in local kindergartens

Analysis The Guilty Escape Justice: After Sex Worker's Suicide, Israeli Court Sends a Chilling Message

By handing out light sentences, and not trying the main culprit in a case involving a notorious Tel Aviv brothel, the legal system and police fail to protect the vulnerable in the prostitution industry

Connecting in the Kitchen: Israeli Initiative Brings Asylum Seekers and Locals Together Through Cooking Sessions

The Kitchen Talks social enterprise offers workshops that showcase the cuisines of Israel’s transparent communities, the people behind them and their life stories

Feminism, Nakba and Tears: This Young Palestinian Artist's Works Are Hard to Look Away From

Womanhood and national identity politics are at the heart of the drawings of artist Samah Shihadi, now on display at her solo Tel Aviv Museum exhibition

Opinion Who Will the Homeless Vote For?

This Palestinian Artist Dares to Celebrate Female Arab Sexuality, Despite Boycott Calls

Defying her rigid patriarchal upbringing, Hanan Abu-Hussein addresses oppression and violence against women in the Arab society

Opinion Israel Strategic Affairs Minister's Cruelty to Drug Addicts

'I Have Nowhere to Go': Tel Aviv Health Program for Homeless, Women in Prostitution and Drug Addicts Closes

The lights went out on Tel Aviv Central Bus Station project – and some of the city's most vulnerable populations have been left even more alone

Analysis Ethiopian Israelis Are Furious at 'White Media' Coverage of Protests, and for a Good Reason

The media has been working hand-in-hand with police, describing demonstrators as violent and taking a perspective in line with Israel's racist establishment

Analysis This Israeli Arab Woman Is Out of Jail After Killing Her Abusive Husband. What About Other Victims?

Dalal Daoud was imprisoned for killing her husband Ali, whom she reported to police 26 times. In the 18 years she spent behind bars, not enough was done to save women

Neither Israeli, nor Palestinian, nor Druze: Just an Artist Trying to Create

Photographer Ronen Zien turns his lens on Khan al-Ahmar, a village that has become a symbol of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle

The Ethiopian Israeli Artist Whose 'Black Art' Gives Power to the People

Nirit Takele says she has always painted about the disadvantaged Ethiopian community; it’s not some stream of ‘black art’ shown for the trendy in New York or London

Bedouin Women Capture Their Village's Final Moments Before It's Demolished by Israel

‘My biggest fear is what will be forgotten,’ says one of the women whose photos appear in a new book about Umm al-Hiran – the village that's being demolished so that a Jewish town can be built on its land

Landmark Tel Aviv Strip Club Gets Eviction Order

The Pussycat, which has long been strongly suspected of housing a brothel, 'encourages the abuse of women and is a nuisance to neighbors in the vicinity'

Analysis Israel's Law Against Prostitution Heralds a New Era of Gender Equality

It's not as harsh as Sweden's legislation, but after years of a wink from the police and the legal system, the new approach has a chance to smash Israel's sex industry

‘I Feel Like an Ashtray’ Prostitution Survivors' Poems on Display in Tel Aviv Tell Stories of Hardship and Hope

Vika, who turned to prostitution to feed her hungry daughter, says she started writing 'to break free' while coming off of drugs

Analysis Criminal Neglect: The Israeli Government Is Complicit in the Murder of Arab Women

There are only two shelters for Arab women, lawmakers are dragging their feet, police are underperforming and above it all a cloud of racism hangs

In One of Tel Aviv's Shadiest Areas, Turning Stripping Into Art

Pole dancers performing in strip clubs, dancers without faces, women in painful articles of clothing – a recent exhibition presented the dehumanizing nature of sex work, and did so in one of the Tel Aviv compounds where the industry still thrives

Analysis Murder of 12-year-old Girl Shows Human Rights in Israel Are Only for Jews

The asylum-seeker community in Israel is in a state of crisis and its women and teenage girls are paying an increasingly heavy price

Israeli Aid Arriving for Bedouin Rape Victims Is Kept Secret for Their Own Sake

In one case, which is by no means rare, Yasmin tells of a 15-year old shepherd girl who fell pregnant after being gang-raped, without being aware of the pregnancy

Israel to Classify Lap Dances at Strip Clubs as Prostitution

State Prosecutor's office issues new directive clamping down on such activities in the country's strip clubs, stating that under some circumstances dances could be considered an illegal 'act of prostitution'

Analysis New Israeli Bill Fining Prostitution Clients May Change Thousands of Women's Lives

The government-sponsored bill does not go as far as the Swedish model, which criminalizes johns, but it is a positive step forward

Analysis New Sex Work Bill Goes Too Easy on Clients

In choosing fines rather than criminalization, Israeli Justice Minister is hiding behind the failures of other, flopped, anti-prostitution laws

Opinion Miri Regev Found Another Enemy: Bedouin Women With Cameras

It’s hard to believe that the culture minister perceives a threat from women who have learned, for the first time, to hold a camera and look at the reality of their lives

Opinion Israel Must Help Asylum Seekers Trapped in the Sex Industry

Human rights in Israel cannot be restricted to Jewish women only

'I Thought Tel Aviv Was Open, but Nothing Prepared Me for This'

Meet Natasha, the transgender former prostitute who has begun to heal through 'Turning the Tables,' a therapeutic organization where she 'found myself creating rather than destroying for the first time'

The Darfuri Asylum Seeker in Israel Who Takes Refuge in Writing

Adam Ahmed fled the massacre in Sudan in 2004 and survived a bloodbath in Egypt, yet is afraid to walk the streets of Tel Aviv. His memoir takes readers on an insightful journey into life in exile

Israel Working to Deport Victim of Human Trafficking

'Sofia' was lured to Israel and forced into sex work; now separated from her son’s Israeli father, she faces expulsion