Netanyahu’s War on Women: Reclaiming Hope in Dark Times
September 5, 2025
Netanyahu’s seventh government has pursued a patriarchal vision rooted in religious nationalism, restricting women’s rights in nearly every domain.
Yofi Tirosh is an associate professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law, a senior research fellow at the Hartman Institute and a nationally recognized civil-rights activist. She is the author of Consent, Multiculturalism and Exit: A Contemporary Critique of Religious Accommodation and the Right to Sex Equality; Political Theology (published online on April 3, 2024); and Diminishing Constitutional Law: The First Three Decades of Women’s Exclusion Adjudication in Israel, 18 International Journal of Constitutional Law (ICON) 821 (2021).Â
Her book Separate and Unequal: Gender Segregation in Israel (Hebrew: Hufradnu Kakh: Moreh Nevokhim Le-Hafrada Migdarit) was recently published by the Berl Katznelson Center.Â
Netanyahu’s seventh government has pursued a patriarchal vision rooted in religious nationalism, restricting women’s rights in nearly every domain.
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