There are at least 100,000 battered women in Israel according to data presented at a conference organized by Dr. Nitza Shapira-Livai, the Prime Minister’s advisor on the status of women. She urged the conference to produce specific suggestions on how to deal with this phenomenon and stressed that it should be made clear to the public that physical violence was a criminal act.
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