Women protest spike in domestic violence as locked-down Israel simmers
In nationwide demonstrations over the last few days, Israeli women are demanding help with the spike violence against women during the COVID-19 crisis.
Five women have been murdered in Israel since the start of the novel coronavirus outbreak, two of them at the end of April.
Figures collected by the Ministry of Welfare since the lockdown began about seven weeks ago show that there were four times as many incidents of violence against women than in the same period last year. In 2019, 13 women were killed in Israel by domestic violence. The past few weeks show a sharp rise in the prevalence of this tragic phenomenon.
