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Though Israel has been celebrated for political egalitarianism (i.e. the prime ministership of Golda Meir in the 70s), potential PM Tzipi Livni is facing some sexist barriers in her attempt to get elected. Livni needs to gather a coalition to become the official Prime Minister after winning her party's primary last week, but the Orthodox policy of not printing photographs of women in newspapers could seriously wound Livni's campaign. According to Newsweek the ultra-Orthodox, or Haredi, voters comprise up to 15% of the Israeli electorate, and Reuters notes that the "reclusive community generally shuns the television, Internet and most radio stations," so the local Orthodox newspapers are their primary source of news. A senior editor at one of these papers, Hamodia tells Reuters, "This is the way it was since the beginning of the world, and the way it shall remain." More »
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Fracas over at Ms.! Some Jewish feminists are up in arms because the magazine refused to publish a full page ad that featured 3 Israeli women in politics: Tzipi Livni, Israel's foreign minister, Dalia Itzik, the speaker of the Knesset (Israel's Parliament), and the president of Israel's supreme court, Dorit Beinisch. The American Jewish Congress called Ms.'s decision "hostile" and "contemptible" and accused the mag of anti-Israeli sentiment. Ms. executive editor Katherine Spillar told UPI, "Our role at Ms. magazine is not to promote countries, it is to report on what's happening to women in different countries." [UPI] More »
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