Knesset to mark day against sexual violence for first time

• Author: JERUSALEM POST STAFF
• Published date: 11 October 2021
• Publication title: Jerusalem Post, The: Web Edition Articles (Israel)

The day is a joint initiative between Mossi Raz (Meretz) and Idit Silman (Yamina), and its overarching goal is to ensure that the topic receives its proper place at the top of the national agenda.

Throughout the day, the Knesset committees will debate laws and reforms that are being completed.

The focus will then shift to an afternoon conference, which will include some victims of sexual crime.

"It is time that policymakers hear from the victims themselves, in first person, on how the State and its institutions treated them," said Yael Sherrer, founder and CEO of the lobby against sexual assault.

"Today is an impressive achievement and I...