Women Are the Key to Israel’s Coalition Government

The nine new women cabinet ministers. (Haaretz)

Experts and Women’s Rights advocates hail the record number of women in the new Coalition government—nine out of 27—as being auspicious for domestic issues, like Women’s Right’s—that apparently most in the Coalition agree on.

Others point to the potential influence that the women now running some of the most important sectors of the Israeli government, will have not only on the “future for women in Israel,” but, elsewhere as well, “in the greater region, where Israel’s strong ties with the United States, in particular, affect everything from sanctions on Iran to U.S. military spending.”

Women now helm the Ministries of education, interior, transportation, environmental protection, aliyah, integration, social equality, the economy and science, and energy, (and in 2023, the new interior minister, will take over the Justice Ministry.) Read profiles of the nine women here.

Read the FP article here.