“In the IDF, female soldiers and officers can take on any position without discrimination, and a woman has reached the rank of general for the first time”

JERUSALEM POST
Israel, superpower for women
by Rivka Lazovsky
January 17, 2016

…Suddenly, Israel is not just a producer of medicines, agricultural technological developments, leading high-tech companies, scientific discoveries and advanced methods of defense. Today Israel is also a superpower of the status of women, creating and exporting some of the most advanced ideas in the world about what is allowed and what is forbidden, a consensus regarding new limits in relation to women, which define the basic parameters of a healthy society. It isn’t only in the war against sexual harassment that this feminine breakthrough is expressed in Israel: the number of female Knesset members is going up, and at an all-time high. Women hold the positions of head of the Bank of Israel and president of the Supreme Court. READ MORE

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