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Case: HCJ 6500/17, Yofi Tirosh v. Council of Higher Education
March 6, 2019
Read CWJ Amicus brief in High Court of Justice petition 6500/17
Read Supreme court decision
In 2019, CWJ filed an amicus brief in support of a 2017 petition filed in the Supreme Court against a decision by the Council of Higher Education that permitted segregated classes in universities, arguing that gender segregation is a suspect category that harms women in several ways. It: a) entrenches stereotypes; b) erases women and silences them; c) objectifies women; d) subjects women to the power of men; and e) symbolizes the patriarchal order of things.
In 2019, the Court issued a decision which disallowed the practice of preventing women from teaching men, and allowed some, but limited, gender segregation on campuses in order to encourage education of the haredi population.