The Economist Magazine
The religious right in Israel: It
Under pressure from rabbinical authorities and their disciples, the hotter-headed religious soldiers boycott military pageants at which women perform. Municipalities cancel concerts with female artists or insist that they fully cover their bodies, and remove advertising of even modestly-clad women from streets and buses. In ultra-Orthodox suburbs of Tel Aviv, women, like their Saudi counterparts, do not drive. The American secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, recently said she was worried that womens rights in Israel were being eroded. In the ultra-Orthodox press her photograph was airbrushed out.
The religious right in Israel: It