Several Israeli women have testified in the Knesset about the sexual abuse they suffered as children as part of religious ritual ceremonies.
During a special joint Knesset session on Tuesday, the women, mainly from the ultra-Orthodox and religious Zionist communities, came forward to testify about years of childhood abuse they suffered during “sadistic sexual rituals” performed in religious ceremonies in Israel.
They claimed that ‘Doctors, educators, police officers, and past and present members of the Knesset were involved in these abuses’.
One of the woman said that she had filed a complaint with the police about the abuses, but it was closed a few months later.
The Jerusalem Post reports: The testimonies came during a joint meeting of the Knesset’s Committee on the Status of Women and Gender Equality, chaired by MK Pnina Tameno-Shete (National Unity), and the Special Committee on Young Israelis, chaired by MK Naama Lazimi (The Democrats).
The joint meeting was organized in the wake of an investigative report published on April 2 by Israel Hayom journalist Noam Barkan. (more...)
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