“Strong women broke through the glass ceiling today, when it comes to providing religious services. Some 40% of the heads of local religious councils, whom I appointed today, are women. I was very excited to meet with them.” Minister of Religious Affairs Matan Kahana (Yamina Party) tweeted this on Tuesday, together with a photo of himself with the women he had just appointed.
In a Facebook post, also from Tuesday, he wrote that when he first entered the Ministry of Religious Affairs ten months earlier, he was shocked to discover no women in senior positions. As he put it, “In the entire history of the state of Israel, up until today, the Minister of Religious Affairs had never appointed a woman to be in charge of a single religious council. As of today, there are six. … And this is just the beginning.”
