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Israel: Jerusalem Mayor Battles Ultra-Orthodox Groups over the Defacing of Billboards Featuring Women
![Ultra-orthodox groups have been blamed for a rising trend in which posters featuring women are defaced. [Baz Ratner/Reuters]](/files/images/Jerusalem-billboard-007.thumbnail.jpg "Ultra-orthodox groups have been blamed for a rising trend in which posters featuring women are defaced. [Baz Ratner/Reuters]")
Female models are being erased from advertisements across the city after religious lobby brands the images as offensive.
Jerusalem's secular mayor, Nir Barkat, has pitted himself against the city's swelling ranks of ultra-orthodox extremists by demanding that local police enable women to reclaim their position in the public domain.
Over recent months, women's faces have disappeared from billboards across the city amid mounting pressure applied by the powerful ultra-orthodox lobby, who find the female image offensive.
Israel: Ultra-orthodox Jewish women against immodesty wear full-body coverings
The movement was born six years ago to fight immodesty in Israeli. There are now hundreds of "haredi" who cover themselves from head to toe. At first, conservative rabbis were in favour, now they emit warnings, especially for young girls.
Israel: Police Arrest Woman Leader for Praying with Torah at Western Wall
Jerusalem Police on Monday arrested the leader of the Women of the Wall group f
A Wall of Silence: The Limits of Public Discourse in Israel. The Case of Gaza (Feminist Perspective)
Ella from Bat-Yam: “I would like to see women express themselves in the peace talks. Since they (the men) sit and discuss economics and security, my idea is for a ‘women’s room’ in peace talks. This space would give voice to women who would sit and talk about peace, and their voices and opinions would have entree to the main discussion as well.”2
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Gaza: Hamas's unofficial orders for 'Islamic' dress curtail personal freedom
(New York) September 4, 2009 -- Hamas authorities in Gaza should suspend all orders that violate personal freedoms, including imposition of an Islamic dress code for female students, Human Rights Watc
Israel: Modesty patrol 'mercenary' gets 4 years for assaulting woman
A mercenary for ultra-Orthodox modesty patrols was sentenced to four years in jail in a plea bargain Sunday, for the aggravated assault and intimidation of a formerly Haredi woman.
Women break silence over 'honour killings'
THE Abu Ghanem clan has lost another of its women, the ninth in eight years killed for supposedly breaching the family's honour.
Jewish ‘modesty patrols’ sow fear in Israel
Some terrified that mere perception of impropriety could ruin their lives
Man who tried to murder sister sentenced to 14 years in jail
Nazareth Court finds Khaled Muslemi guilty of attempted murder, says 'despicable phenomenon of murder under pretence of 'honor killings' must be condemned.