"Court fines ultra-Orthodox radio station NIS 1 million for keeping women off air", 20 Sep 2018

In a precedent-setting ruling, the Jerusalem District Court fined the ultra-Orthodox Kol Berama radio station NIS 1 million ($280,000) on Thursday for excluding women from the airwaves.  The judge ordered the money be held in a designated fund that will later be distributed to various organizations helping ultra-Orthodox women.  The ruling comes six years after the Reform Movement’s Israel Religious Action Center and the religious women’s rights group Kolech filed a class action lawsuit against the radio station for its refusal to broadcast women on any of its programming...[T]he judge ruled Kol Berama’s “total and deliberate exclusion damages dignity and self-worth, deepens perceptions of female inferiority and prevents the influence of women in public discourse.”...It was not clear if the station would change its practices after the ruling.  The ruling is the latest knock by the courts against exclusion of women from the public sphere in the ultra-Orthodox community, where women rarely hold public roles or are even seen in newspapers and other media...