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Haredi papers welcome Israel’s women ministers — without first names or faces

Another set of women in powerful positions, another haredi Orthodox paper erasing them.

Israel's President Reuven Rivlin (left, seated) sits next to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (right, seated) as they pose for a group photo together with the ministers of the new Israeli government, in Jerusalem, May 19, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

By Ben Sales May 20, 2015 9:59 am

This time, the women weren’t fully erased, as has happened with previous photos of women politicians. A Brooklyn haredi paper, Di Tzeitung, erased then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton from the famous 2011 photo of government officials monitoring Osama Bin Laden’s killing. And Israeli haredi paper Hamevaser airbrushed German Chancellor Angela Merkel out of the photo of world leaders marching in Paris following the Charlie Hebdo attack this year.

Hamevaser, by the way, was founded by United Torah Judaism Knesset Member Meir Porush. Porush serves as this government’s deputy education minister — first name and all.

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