Gender equality in israel

Average salary in Israel rises in first half of 2025, as gender pay gap widens, NII data reveals

Israel’s National Insurance Institute released its first-half 2025 wage report, showing a 4.5% rise in average pay but a 43% median-to-mean gap and a 54% gender gap.

 View of the National Insurance Institute offices in Jerusalem. January 23, 2017.
Orthodox jews protest against Tel Aviv municipality Shabbat bus service, outside the home of Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai in Tel Aviv on December 7, 2019.

New data maps Israel’s freedom divide: Liberal cities surge, conservative ones slip

Over the past two years, women have served on the frontlines in Gaza and Lebanon, performing under fire alongside their male comrades.

Israel's debate over women in combat was settled on the Gaza and Lebanon battlefields - opinion

Dr. Esther Luzzatto,  public activist, social impact leader, and businesswoman.

Dr. Esther Luzzatto to receive Ben-Gurion Award from BGU


No gender apartheid in Israeli universities

Sexism is racism towards women.

STUDENTS AT Hebrew University in Jerusalem

Women in Israel earn 59% of men’s salaries - diversity index

Ethiopian and Arab women earn less than 50% of the average wage.

President Rivlin received the 2018 Diversity in Employment Index.

On gender separation in academia

Medad and Pollak talk about separated programs without mentioning or confronting the fact that the separation is asymmetric.

Students at Hebrew University, October 22, 2017..

Art, and women, making an impact on the landscape of Israel

EMET Prize laureates Michal Rovner and Hanna Herzog describe the powerful impact their work has on how we see the world.

EMET Prize laureates Hanna Herzog and Michal Rovner

Israeli educational program trains teen girls for elite cyber jobs

CyberGirlz aims to close the gender gap in an industry where women only make up 11 percent of the workforce

A man holds a laptop computer as cyber code is projected on him

Israeli Court allows gender-separate course in Civil Service

The ruling relates to the “Influencers” pilot program set up by the Civil Service designed to help integrate haredi graduates into the Civil Service for employment in the public sector.

INCREASED INTEGRATION of Haredim into the workforce has resulted in a record-low poverty rate in the Haredi sector.

Gender policy document removed from IDF site

The IDF said that the document was already withdrawn in March.

Female soldier, Lotem Stapleton, a physical education officer, demonstrates a move during a training session in Krav Maga, an Israeli self-defense technique, at a military base in the Golan Heights March 1, 2017.

Chief Rabbi demands Civil Service course for haredim remain gender-separate

Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef ruled that gender separation is a necessary requirement in Jewish law for all study frameworks.

Young haredim take part in a protest against mandatory IDF conscription, March 2018

Israel Airport Authority bans anti-gender discrimination ad

The banner was placed in the airport to remind women that the gender discrimination they may face on an airplane is illegal.

File photo of an EL AL Boeing 777 aircraft at Ben Gurion International Airport near Tel Aviv, Israel July 14, 2015. REUTERS/Nir Elias/File Photo

Women’s tattoos, piercings judged more harshly than men’s, study finds

They're motives for getting tattoos and piercings are also different!

Third Annual Tel Aviv Tattoo Convention