Femicide is on the rise
In 2022, 24 women were murdered because they were women. 2022 saw 24 cases of femicide, compared with 16 in 2021 (2 per month in 2022 compared to 1.3 in 2021)—a rise of 50%.
Half of the women killed in 2022 were from the Arab/Palestinian sector, which makes up 21% of the total population in Israel.
In 58% of the cases, the suspect or murderer was the victim’s partner or ex-partner, and in the majority of cases the killer was a family member
KAN's Mark Weiss spoke with Prof. Shalva Weil of the Seymour Fox School of Education at the Hebrew University, who established the Israel Observatory on…
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