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Noya Rimalt

Sep 24, 2025, 10:27 PM

How We Became a Society Indifferent to Death

Under Israeli criminal law, murder is defined as committing an act that causes another person’s death while showing indifference to the possibility that the act will cause such death. Indifference denotes a lack of concern for the possible consequences...

Nov 5, 2023, 7:41 PM

Israelis Need a New Contract with Their Government

In the summer of 2014, during the Tzuk Eitan war in Gaza I was one of the founders of the Women Wage Peace movement. As a new generation of young soldiers were sent by the Israeli government to fight...

Sep 18, 2023, 4:11 PM

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With end of Roe v. Wade, do women in Israel have it better?

Without the legal right to end a pregnancy, Israeli women seeking termination must falsely present themselves to gatekeeping committees as ‘mad’ or ‘bad’

About Me

Noya Rimalt is a professor of law at the University of Haifa and the founding co-director of the Forum for Gender, Law and Policy. Her scholarship examines the intersections of gender, law, and feminism in legal theory and practice.