Reply To: A real debate about women

The Jewish Home has two religious women MKs (Orit Strock & Shuli Moallem-Refaeli) but, of course, they’re Zionists.

A hot rumor has it that the daughter of Rav Ovadia Yosef z”l, Adina Bar-Shalom, who founded the Haredi College (*Hamichlala Hacharedit*) in Jerusalem, may receive a high spot on former Likud MK Moshe Kahlon’s new list.

Shlomtzion Hamalka, the widow of Alexander Yannai, was queen of the Hasmonean state from roughly 76-67 BCE. She was Rav Shimon Ben-Shetach’s sister. The sources say very nice things about her (Megillat Ta’anit 11, Midrash Vayikra Raba, and a few other places). She undid much of her pro-Sadducee husband’s damage. Her brother’s reforms were successful and accepted partly because she backed him up. Her reign is the only bright spot in the latter years of the Hasmonean state.