Scholars join lawmakers in slamming government policies that add up to a lowering of women's standing

Itamar Ben Gvir and Bezalel Smotrich are among the far-right members of the committee, which will devise policy on combating violent crime wave in Arab community

Figure includes 521 survivors who immigrated from Ukraine after Russian invasion; around 15,000 died over previous year; average age of survivors 85

In new position, lawmaker will be tasked with eradicating violence against women, promoting gender equality, fighting sexual harassment and preventing the exclusion of women

Though the Likud lawmaker doesn't identify with the progressive denomination, he has deep ties to it; as founder of a pre-army program, he's connected to a variety of Jewish groups

Deal between Jerusalem and Bucharest, which was caught up in red tape for past six years, expected to provide some 7,000 survivors with hundreds of additional shekels a month

Average age is 85.5, with over 1,000 over age 100; social equality minister notes urgency in providing assistance as some 40 survivors die each day

Israel's huge cabinet has ministers for just about everything... except minorities, possibly jeopardizing the largest-ever investment program in non-Jewish communities

Blue and White's Meirav Cohen's baby boy is her third child; her first daughter was born on 2013's election day, when she failed to enter Knesset