Israeli Women

The role of Israeli women in their society has been extremelly misunderstood. The position of Israeli women is not as terrible as many modern people think. Their position in their law is in many ways better than American women's.

Israeli Women's Position

Women have held positions of respect in Judaism since biblical times.
Their opinion is very important in traditional Judaism; women and men are equal. Women's obligations and responsabilities are different for men's, but not less important.

According to Isaraeli people women are endowed with a greater degree of  "BINAH" (intuition, understanding and intelligent). Althought there are many fields in which women are absent. One of them is politics.

In Israel women's representation in politics is lower than their overall proportion in the population. Politics is perceived as a male domain while the domestics sphere is perceived as the natural province of women.

Other field is education. Women in Isarel are discouraged from pursuing higher education , but this seems not to be effective because women give more priority to their duties as wives and mothers.

Women's Rights

Women's rigths are very similar to men's in their culture.

• Israeli women have the right to vote.
• Israeli women  have the rigth to buy, sell and own property.
• Make their own contracts.
• They have the right to be consulted with regard to their marriage.
• Marital sex is regarded as the woman's right and no the man's
• Women are protected by law from discrimination.

In conclusion the primary role of a Israeli women is as wife and mother, "keeper of the household". But in this culture this role is not despise, however Judaism has great respect for the importance of that position and the spiritual influence that a woman has over her family.