The October war of 2023 led to a sharp increase in the need for mental health services on the part of the general population and especially for specific groups within it, among them persons injured by the Hammas attack or dislocated as a result of that attack and the subsequent war, families whose homes were damaged from rocket fire and soldiers suffering from post-trauma. The widespread distress occurred at a time when Israel’s public mental health services had been suffering for years from a chronic shortage of personnel, unfilled positions and, as a result, the general inaccessability of public mental health services.

An infographic presentation based on a study by the Adva Center in cooperation with the Friedrich Ebert Foundation on gender pay gaps in Israel.

Position paper [shortened version for English readers] on the Effect of the October 2023 War on the Poor Residing in Israel’s Geographic Periphery, presented to the Special Knesset Committee for the Development of the Negev and the Galilee.

“We are Bedouins; we can subsist on olive oil: We don’t say we don’t have food”: This study addresses food insecurity among Bedouin people living in unrecognized villages in the Negev, following exploratory research conducted in 2022-2023 and an update in the research design after the October 2023 war.

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.

Budget cuts in the Employment Program for Arab women and men will result in perpetuating the gaps between Jews and Arabs; they also augur damage to the Israeli economy, especially in light of the reduction in the employment of Arabs since the outbreak of war.

In times of crisis, women’s employment is more precarious than men’s. This was true during the Corona epidemic, and this is what is happening today — due mainly to the gender division of labour in the household, reinforced by upsets or closures in the education system, especially during wartime when numerous men are called up to the reserves

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 report examines the Israeli film industry from the perspective of gender

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