But nothing changes, of course.
As the song goes:
הַשֶּׁמֶשׁ זָרְחָה, הַשִּׁטָּה פָּרְחָה וְהַשּׁוֹחֵט שָׁחַט.
A “Times of Israel” headline from this month:
1 in 4 female conscripts in police, prisons sexually harassed or abused — ombudsman
I think the number in the last report a few years back was 1 in 6… Change the masses can believe in!
Some excerpts:
Stark figures released on Monday by the State Comptroller’s Office revealed the high percentage of women subjected to sexual harassment or abuse while performing their obligatory national service in the Israel Police, Border Police and Israel Prison Service.
The report found that harassment is for the most part committed by professional, non-conscripted members of those forces including commanders, and when reported is either insufficiently addressed or not dealt with at all.
The report was commissioned in the wake of the so-called pimping scandal at Gilboa Prison, in which senior prison officers were accused of “pimping” out female prison officials in 2018 to prisoners held for nationalistic crimes.
State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman said the report painted a “troubling institutional reality” in the three services under review.
“It appears that the Gilboa scandal was just the tip of the iceberg. Conscripted soldiers are subject to harassment from terror inmates and from professional personnel who take advantage of conscripts’ weakness,” said Englman.
The government loves pretending there isn’t a pattern.
Let’s keep filing useless reports, people!