* An Israeli expert was elected to a United Nations committee on women’s rights. Ruth Halperin-Kaddari, director of Bar-Ilan University’s Rackman Center for the Advancement of the Status of Women and author of “Women in Israel: A State of Their Own,” was named to the 23-member committee.
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