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In Israel, Gender Segregation is Becoming More Common

Leaders from Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community have insisted that men and women must be separated from one another, even in some public spaces.
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Dr. Yofi Tirosh is a Senior Fellow of the Kogod Research Center at the Shalom Hartman Institute. She is the Vice Dean and an Associate Professor at the Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law and the former Dean of the Sapir Academic College School of Law in Israel’s south (Negev) region. Her research on antidiscrimination law, feminist jurisprudence, and law and culture has been published in leading international and Israeli journals. Her current research focus

Leaders from Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish community have insisted that men and women must be separated from one another, even in some public spaces. Even some secular Israelis say that has an upside, because it will help integrate ultra-Orthodox Jews into mainstream society. But others say it’s a slippery slope that will lead to increasingly harsh rules that ultimately amount to discrimination against women.

Hear Hartman fellow Yofi Tirosh discuss on The World podcast.

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