Haredi publication blurs face of Labor Party's female leader

• Published date: 08 June 2021
• Author: Shira Hanau
• Date: 08 June 2021
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

Behadrei Haredim did not explain its decision on the photo, which was used with a story about Israel's incoming government, but the reason was likely because Michaeli is a woman.

Haredi publications have blurred, photoshopped or otherwise excluded photos of women from their pages for years.

Most famously in the United States, Der Zeitung photoshopped Hillary Clinton, then serving as secretary of state, out of a photo taken in the Situation Room on the day that U.S. forces assassinated Osama bin Laden in 2011.

The publications have argued that the decision to exclude women from their photos stems from the modesty...