Femicide and Gender Based Violence in the Family – A Review of Systemic Action in Israel

In recent years, over 20 women have been murdered in Israel each year, many of them by men who were closest to them. From September to November 2018 alone, six women were murdered, bringing the issue to the national agenda and impressively mobilizing a variety of stakeholders seeking broad action.

In the wake of the public outcry, hundreds of women took part in protests across the country on October 18; in November, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against Women was marked more intensively; and on December 4, a women’s strike was held, during which dozens of companies and authorities were shut down for 24 minutes, to commemorate the 24 victims murdered up to that date in 2018.

All these events involved women and organizations from all facets of Israeli society as well as broad organizing of civil society and social activists – both male and female.

Sheatufim is a non-profit organization specializing in cross-sectoral dialogue and collaborative social impact approaches to solving complex social problems. The organization was asked to help brainstorm possible courses of action to minimize the number of female murder victims and reduce the level of violence against women in Israel, particularly to leverage mobilization and raise consciousness in the public arena.

As a first step, an initial mapping of the field was carried out. Its findings are presented in this report.

The full article – Femicide and Gender Based Violence in the Family – A Review of Systemic Action in Israel

The abstract – Femicide and Gender-based Violence in the Family: A Review of Systemic Action in Israel

The article in Hebrew