Jerusalem, 24 November, 2025 (TPS-IL) — Israel Central Bureau of Statistics released a multi-system situational picture, a data collection, on violence against women on the occasion of the International Day for the Elimination of Violence against women, to be observed Tuesday, November 25.
In 2024, 35 women were murdered, 8 of whom by their partners.
In 2024, 410 cases of violence were recorded in the aid units, with 280 (68.3%) of them classified as male violence against a woman.
Key findings from the Gender-Based Violence Dashboard 2023:
410,079 women and men contacted or reported violence of any kind in 2023, of which 82% were women and 18% were men.
Of all the reports, about 10% of women reported being harmed in the home. Of these, about 73% of the calls for complaints about this type of violence in the home were from women.
Among women, 27.8% of the referrals were for complaints of emotional or mental violence, 27.7% were for physical violence, 25.8% for combined violence, 15.9% for sexual violence, and 2.7% for economic violence.
Among women 20 and older in 2024:
Approximately 468,000 women (14.6% of all women aged 20 and over) were affected by various types of offenses.
4,600 women (4.2%) were affected by sexual harassment.
105,200 women (3.3%) were affected by a violent crime or threat of violence.
Most victims of sexual harassment are between the ages of 20 and 34, 7.8% of women in this age group.
93,300 (69.3%) of all women who were victims of sexual harassment reported that they were harmed outside their workplace, compared to 41,300 (30.7%) who reported that they were harmed in the workplace.
The highest rate of women affected by violence or the threat of violence was among those with a matriculation certificate and non-academic post-secondary education (4.1%).
4.9% of women with academic degrees reported being victims of sexual harassment.
4.1% of secular women reported being affected by violence or the threat of violence, and 6.1% reported being affected by sexual harassment.
About 48% of women who were victims of a violent crime or threat of violence reported the incident to the police.