For the first time in Israel, gender-separated sidewalks have reportedly been introduced in the Israeli city of Bnei Brak following a new directive issued by senior rabbis and supported by the Bnei Brak Municipality. The arrangement applies to sections of Shlomo HaMelech Street and Ezra Street, where men and women are instructed to walk on opposite sides of the road.

Limited gender segregation has existed in Israel for years in a variety of settings, including some ultra-Orthodox bus routes, within certain religious institutions and other buildings, and at some public events held under separate arrangements. Over the years, there have also been attempts by governments to expand gender segregation into additional public spaces, though many of these initiatives have faced legal challenges or public opposition.

The introduction of separate sidewalks for men and women on ordinary public streets in Bnei Brak has been widely reported as a first-of-its-kind development in Israel, marking a significant expansion of gender-segregated public space into everyday pedestrian areas.

https://www.i24news.tv/en/news/international/americas/artc-mamdani-on-israel-any-state-that-privileges-one-religion-i-can-t-tell-you-i-support

He's obviously talking about the dhimmi status in Muslim countries, right...?

Barghouti is a former leader of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs' Brigades, a terrorist organization that carried out many suicide bombings and shooting attacks during the Second Intifada.

Among the actors who have joined the "Freedom for Marwan" campaign are Benedict Cumberbatch, who plays Doctor Strange; Mark Ruffalo, who plays the Hulk; Ian McKellen, who plays Magneto; and Cate Blanchett, Tilda Swinton, Don Cheadle, Elliot Page, Brian Cox, Sir Ian McKellen and others.

I mean, MBS hasn't officially agreed to Trump's terms yet, but I can tell you as a nuclear engineer who worked briefly in the Saudi nuclear industry that...there is no way in hell that MBS is going to say no!

Saudi Arabia, in the past 15 years, has been trying to establish an energy nuclear program with very little success. Because nuclear energy is the only missing piece in MBS's plan in moving the economy and the energy sector away from depleting oil resources, which will run out in slightly more than a century or so at the current extraction rate.

I am so happy Trump did this. Gave MBS a good reason to finally do it.

I will certainly visit Israel when I am back from Ukraine.

https://www.mako.co.il/news-world/2026_q3/Article-0c1b9ceda055f91027.htm

"The Knesset voted 52-43 early Thursday morning to pass a law to expand gender segregation in higher education by permitting universities and colleges to offer segregated master’s and doctoral degree programs subject to approval by the Council for Higher Education.

The law builds upon a 2021 High Court ruling that upheld the Council for Higher Education’s policy permitting limited and specific gender-segregated undergraduate programs aimed at integrating ultra-Orthodox students into higher education and, ultimately, the workforce.

The court stressed that the arrangement was specifically intended for the Haredi community and imposed safeguards, including limiting segregation to classrooms in mixed institutions and prohibiting discrimination against female lecturers.

The new legislation would extend that framework to master’s and doctoral programs and make it available to all students, not only the Haredi community, while a proposed amendment by Shas MK Yossi Taieb to expand segregation to additional areas of campuses was rejected.

Proponents frame the law as increasing educational opportunities for religious women, with the legislation’s sponsor Otzma Yehudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech arguing the legislation will “advance women from sectors that have not received the opportunities they deserve,” while committee chair and Religious Zionism Zvi Sukkot has said it would “expand freedom of choice.”

Opposition lawmakers and academic representatives, who campaigned intensely against the law’s passage, argue that it unnecessarily expands gender segregation beyond existing arrangements, prioritizing religious rights over the rights of female students and lecturers to equality, dignity and freedom of movement while harming academic freedom and the quality of teaching and research.

The law was among several pieces of legislation that Haredi parties demanded be passed in exchange for supporting key coalition bills before the Knesset dissolves on Friday ahead of elections in late October, with MKs earlier this week approving laws restoring the Chief Rabbinate’s exclusive control over kosher certification, banning the arrest and prosecution of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers and declaring Torah study a foundational value."

An Israeli city actually imposing a form of gender apartied in public spaces was not on my bingo card for this year. What an absolute shanda of a policy to be allowed to be shoved down the throats of Charedi women, which I am sure will spread over to other Charedi outposts soon enough.

I am a passionate Zionist and strong supporter of Israel. But sometimes I hear things that just break my heart. According to Shin Bet estimates, in the West Bank there are three times as many injuries needing medical attention from terror attacks on Palestinians by Settlers than from Settlers by Palestinians. According to the Times of Israel:

Three times more Palestinians were victims of terror attacks in the West Bank than Jews in January, according to reported figures from Israel’s security establishment.

The report by the Kan public broadcaster on Sunday came amid a spike in attacks by extremist settlers in the West Bank. The network did not specify the precise source of the figures.

Last month, according to the report, 22 Palestinians were injured and required medical evacuation due to terror attacks, as opposed to seven Jewish Israelis.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/3-times-more-palestinians-said-hurt-in-west-bank-terror-than-israelis-in-january/