Domestic violence is a major reason for housing insecurity for women and their children. This position paper was prepared for a round-table discussion initiated jointly by the Forum for Public Housing, the Adva Center and the Friedrich Ebert Foundation, the purpose of which was to increase housing options for abused women in Israel.

The study, published by the Adva Center, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung Israel, examines the gender aspects of the October 7 war in view of international research on the unique gender effects of crises and emergencies on women.

The policy of ‘Arming Israel,’ as it is currently being conducted, will deepen the vulnerability of women in general and women who are caught in the cycle of domestic violence in particular

One year after the outbreak of the Corona pandemic in Israel, it is abundantly clear that the crisis has been a gendered one, impacting women and men differently

The corona crisis poses a threat to the advances in gender equality made in recent decades. The UN published recommendations for 10 policy areas that need to be addressed. The following document puts them into the Israeli context

A presentation by Dr. Yael Hasson of the Adva Center and Hadass Ben Eliyahu of the ‘Yoda’at’ Center and the ‘Shavot’ Project at the Van Leer Institute reviews the impact of the corona epidemic on women in Israel vis-à-vis unpaid work, employment, social security, violence against women and representation in policy-making forums

What is needed is not to arm over half a million more Israeli men so that they can fight off Palestinians who violently protest the occupation, but rather to work for a negotiated political settlement of the conflict