Israel Observatory on Femicide
Femicide in War and Peace
Special Issue in the journal 'Peace Review'
(Guest Editor: Prof. Shalva Weil)
Report on femicide cases in 2021
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(English Edition)
Shalva Weil, Noam S. Keshet
Journal of Gender Studies, 30 (1): 39-51. doi: 10.1080 / 09589236.2020.1809361
This study of femicide involving elderly women, or female geronticide includes an empirical report on the findings of the first longitudinal study on female geronticide in Israel, which demonstrates that over a period of 10 years female geronticide was perpetrated solely by intimate male partners. The findings are important for policy-makers in Israel but have applications globally.
Shalva Weil
Cambio. Rivista sulle trasformazioni sociali, OpenLab on Covid-19.
doi:: 10.13128/cambio-10383
This article will describe the establishment of the Israel Observatory on Femicide (IOF) in November 2020, and document all the femicide cases perpetrated in Israel during 2020. It is the first report of its kind in Israel. Special attention will be paid to the connection between femicide and covid-19 during this difficult year.
Shalva Weil
Journal of Gender Studies, 30 (7): 807-818. doi: 10.1080/09589236.2021.1880883
The article offers a collocation of COVID-19 alongside two other pandemics that are likely to increase during and after public health responses to the coronavirus: suicide and femicide. Both of these forms of violence are patterned, predictable, and highly gendered. We assert that femicide and suicide rates will increase for women to unprecedented levels as a direct result of pandemic public health measures.
Shalva Weil
Special Issue in Peace Review: Femicide in War and Peace 34 (2): 135-139,
Guest Editor, Shalva Weil.
For the first time for a journal, Peace Review is launching a Special Issue on Femicide in War and Peace, with contributions from diverse
countries, not hitherto covered in books and articles on femicide. The contributors come from a variety of academic disciplines, and represent many places in the world, including the global South.
At the time of writing, a terrible war is waging in the Ukraine. It is men who are largely being killed. But women are also the innocent victims of this war.