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Papers brush women out of Israeli Cabinet

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Gender biased: A combination picture showing the original image of the new Israeli Cabinet (top), and a digitally-altered image that appeared in the Israeli ultra-orthodox newspaper Yated Neeman with the women Cabinet Ministers replaced by men.

Tel Aviv: Two women Ministers within a 30-strong Cabinet may not sound like such a big deal to most. However, it was too many for ultra-orthodox newspapers, so they simply airbrushed the offending women figures out of photographs of Netanyahu’s Cabinet, on the grounds that “printing pictures of women is immodest”.

Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver, the two apparently inappropriate Ministers, simply “disappeared” from a photograph of the new Cabinet in the weekly newspaper Shaa Tova, with black holes visible in the spaces where they had been standing. Meanwhile, in the newspaper Yated Neeman, men Cabinet members were superimposed on to the women’s images . Shaa Tova told the Israeli daily Maariv: “Anyone who is acquainted with the ultra-orthodox press knows that from time immemorial, ultra-orthodox newspapers avoid publishing pictures of women.” — © Guardian Newspapers Limited, 2009

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