Women empowerment

Where women are already leading

Ahead of her appearance in the upcoming Miami Conference, World Emunah Director Meira Lerner looks back at a prolific 2025: ”There shouldn’t be a struggle to find women leaders. They’re here.”

Meira Lerner, Director of World Emunah, at the World Emunah Women in the Arts event
HONOREES AT Chochmat Nashim’s Women of Iron Awards together with Shoshanna Keats Jaskoll, Chochmat Nashim director (top row, 2nd L); and Fleur Hassan-Nahoum, Foreign Ministry special envoy for innovation (bottom row, 1st R)

Israeli women honored at Chochmat Nashim’s Women of Iron Awards

THE WRITER addresses a Maof-Tech gathering at the Technion in Haifa.

The strength of women in the capital market - opinion

An ‘Inspiring Panel of Women’ appears before an audience with the aim of empowering the next generation of Israeli girls.

Empowering the next generation: Israeli girls in STEM are leading the future - opinion


‘It’s crucial to show women that they can do whatever they want’

Despite a historic year, women climbing the hi-tech ladder still face many challenges.

 Noa Asher, CEO at NTT Innovation Laboratory Israel

Women’s empowerment community launches ‘Extreme Start-Over’

The first initiative of the project will assist a mother of six children who is currently navigating a difficult divorce.

A vendor sells #MeToo badges a protest march for survivors of sexual assault and their supporters in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California US

John Oliver plays ‘Look for the Union Label,’ a jingle with Jewish roots

The union reached the height of its power in 1959, when it claimed nearly a half-million members. But by the 1970s, unionized shops were closing throughout the United States.

 An International Ladies’ Garment Workers Union ad implores union families to buy union goods.

Prof. Alice Shalvi, mother of Jewish feminism, wins lifetime prize

The 95-year-old Israel Prize laureate was awarded a lifetime prize by the Kiverstein Institute.

 ALICE SHALVI (right) receives her prize: Feminists for a feminist.

Tamara Cofman Wittes is 'pushing the envelope' on behalf of women

No. 30 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021: Scholar, author and speaker Tamara Cofman Wittes.

 Tamara Cofman Wittes

Two Jewish fashion icons supporting woman in the industry

No. 29 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021: Founder of Spanx Sara Blakely and CEO of Tory Burch LLC, Tory Burch.

 Sara Blakely & Tory Burch

At Facebook, paving the way for Jewish women in tech

No. 15 on The Jerusalem Post's Top 50 Most Influential Jews of 2021: Facebook’s Vice President for Europe Nicola Mendelsohn and Facebook Israel’s General Manager Adi Soffer Teeni.

Nicola Mendelsohn & Adi Soffer Teeni

How far have women’s legal rights progressed in the region?

It would be naïve to suggest that Israel has reached its full potential in creating a society whereby women are equal to men, however, it is far ahead of other countries in the region.

An Iraqi woman washes her baby in scorching heat amid power cuts in Baghdad last month.

All-female tank crew begins operations on Egyptian border

They will operate Merkava IV tanks, having completed their training last week and began their operational activity along the Egyptian border.

all-female battalion of tank operators deployed on the Egyptian border

Benny Gantz appoints Tomer-Yerushalmi as MAG, will be first woman in role

Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi has been appointed to be Military Advocate General and is being promoted to the rank of Maj.-Gen., becoming only the second woman in the IDF to hold this rank.

New Military Advocate General Yifat Tomer-Yerushalmi