Israel is heading toward an election with only one woman leading a political party.
The absence is particularly striking for a country that was once an international outlier. When Golda Meir became prime minister in 1969, she was only the third woman in the world to reach her country’s highest political office. More than half a century later, she remains Israel’s only female prime minister. Every Israeli prime minister since her resignation in 1974 has been a man.
But the story of women in Israeli politics is not simply one of persistent underrepresentation. Between 1999 and 2015, the number of women elected
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