sexual assault

Kim Arad addresses parole c'tee to keep offender behind bars

Arad was called to speak before a parole committee to explain why Carmi should serve the full three-year and three-month sentence he was given in August of 2022.

04/03/2025

More than half of Israeli universities fail to report sexual harassment complaints

The report found that some universities have only one staff member handling thousands of sexual harassment cases.

24/02/2025
  View of a DNA kit during a press conference at La Rochelle tribunal, western France, on April 14,

Knesset slam delay in rape kit preservation law

While some 6,500 sex offense cases were opened in these years, the police representative could not say how many of them were rape cases.

23/02/2025

The October 7 massacre’s invisible victims: Time to recognize survivors of sexual trauma

The government must act now, allocating resources and ensuring that survivors of sexual violence receive the support they deserve.

By ORIT SULITZEANU
14/02/2025

Israeli who claimed to have supernatural powers to commit abuse indicted

Investigators claim that the assailant would stare down his opponents in the courtroom in a "case unlike any other."

13/02/2025

Police arrest 28 suspects for sex offenses against minors

As part of the operation, officers posed as young teenagers on social media platforms, including Instagram and WhatsApp, to lure potential suspects. 

(Al Pereira/Getty Images)

The Jewish community shouldn't sing Peter Yarrow’s songs - and here's why

Peter Yarrow was convicted, served time in jail, received a presidential pardon and explicitly acknowledged and apologized, albeit weakly, for his actions.

By MARY ZAMORE/JTA
07/02/2025
Sad person in tunnel (illustrative)

Knesset committee changes definition of rape to protect men

Fixing the law is not only a historic correction, it is "incredibly healing," a victim of sexual assault said, thanking the committee.

29/01/2025

'Liri Albag saved my life' Amit Soussana reveals for first time in Uvda interview

"Liri is something special," Soussana said. "She is a force. I told her when she came back: 'I don't know if they would have killed me or not, as far as I'm concerned, you saved my life.'"

Gilboa prison guards demand terrorist who sexually assaulted them to be deported

Atallah was indicted in September 2023 for the rape of a female prison guard in the “prison pimping” case.

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