Israel’s Knesset includes more women than ever before
Israel’s newly elected Knesset is barely two months old, and for all the challenges it has faced — including international pressure for a two-state solution, a struggle to form a coalition, and a plan to segregate buses that brought widespread criticism — the legislative body is already enjoying one major success: There are more women in Knesset now than there have ever been before.
“If you don’t have women around the table, then decisions are made according to what’s convenient for men, not what’s convenient for women,” said Rachel Azaria, a first-term Knesset member with the Kulanu party.
Of the 120 Knesset members, 29 are women, who come from all across the political spectrum. Of the 10 parties in the Knesset, only the two ultra-Orthodox parties have no women.
