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Israel Grants Residency to Human Trafficking Survivor Leading Fight Against Prostitution
Chile Ezra, who was forcibly brought to Israel to work as a prostitute and was raped by a client, was in a relationship with an Israeli who died before she obtained legal status
Israel to Deport Human Trafficking Victim, Possibly Separating Her From 12-year-old Son
Immigration authority director said he didn't find 'any special humanitarian reasons' to grant status to woman who was trafficked to Israel in 1991 and has an Israeli child
'Inside I Was a Girl, but No One Knew It': The Incredible Story of Rina, a Transgender Fourth-grader
At 5, she knew she was a girl in a boy's body. At 7, she changed her name and came out to her classmates. Now Rina's parents are sharing their journey to understanding that their daughter is transgender. Along the way they've found that they are not alone
Analysis Israel Could Have Stopped Exploitation at Strip Clubs a Long Time Ago
Recognizing lap dances in clubs as prostitution earlier on could have spared some of the society’s most marginalized women a lot of abuse
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
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
'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