Now you see the women in the Israeli cabinet – and now you don’t
Two female ministers in Israel’s new right-wing government have already lost their cabinet posts – at least in certain ultra-orthodox Jewish newspapers.
In the most recent issues of Yated Neeman and Shaa Tova, the inaugural cabinet photograph has been doctored to erase ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver. Ultra-orthodox newspapers consider it a violation of the core religious principle of modesty to print pictures of women, so that they are left out of, or deleted from, photographs and advertisements.
Yated Neeman moved two male ministers into the places occupied by the women. Shaa Tova simply blacked out Ms Livnat from Benjamin Netanyahu’s Likud party and Ms Landver from the ultra-nationalist Yisrael Beytenu party.
