First public admission of ritualistic child abuse in Israel's religious-Zionist sector sparks national reckoning

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Israeli Settler Council Issues Unprecedented Admission of Ritualistic Child Sexual Abuse After Broadcaster Exposes Cover-Up

The Gush Etzion Regional Council in the Israeli-occupied West Bank has publicly admitted that ritualistic sexual abuse of children occurred within its communities, a confession that marks the first time a governing body in Israel's religious-Zionist settler sector has broken ranks with years of denial.

The extraordinary statement came on 27 May 2026 in direct response to a broadcast by Israeli public broadcaster Kan 11, whose investigative programme 'Zman Emet' aired accounts from five women, most of whom did not know each other, who described virtually identical patterns of multi-perpetrator ritualistic sexual abuse in the same geographic areas.

The admission did not materialise in isolation. It is the culmination of more than a year of survivor testimony, Knesset hearings, rabbinical warnings, and police investigations that have shaken Israeli society to its core, forcing a reckoning within the country's religious communities over decades of alleged institutional silence.

Full article https://www.ibtimes.co.uk/gush-etzion-council-admits-ritualistic-child-abuse-1799642

It's symphysiotomy: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symphysiotomy
It actually began, as many disasters do, from good intentions, as a way of trying to reduce maternal deaths by avoiding caesarean sections and major surgery. In underdeveloped healthcare systems that's not necessarly a bad approach.

The problem was that it became a way for medical staff to ensure that women could continue to get pregnant where multiple c sections would have made that far too risky to be advisable. Consent, as always, being the real problem: if a woman wants to have several more children after a c section, that's one thing. In a society where women are treated as brood mares, it's completely different.

Anyway. That's part of a wider discussion about patriarchal attitudes and "ownership" of women.

I've contacted MNHQ, because this happened to me once before. And I sulked for days until someone said to ask why?

And the answer was that no one was aware it had been flagged.

So hopefully it is as suggested by a PP because it is not a UK url.

although given how many threads have links to articles etc., from other countries seems a bit strange.

Just adding this, as again it shows how the male establishment (I suspect in all countries) just dont grasp or want to accept that women have the right not to be abused. (from the hearings last year)

National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir accused the Knesset Committee for the Advancement of the Status of Women and Gender Equality of “harming police officers,” as he made a rare and unexpected appearance at a committee meeting on victims of sexual violence on Wednesday.

The far-right minister said that he was attending the meeting “for one reason: because you have hurt our representatives.” The unsubstantiated charges prompted outrage from the committee members, who demanded an explanation.

“I’m giving you a chance — police and [ministry] representatives will attend today, and I’m asking you not to harm them,” he continued, ignoring and speaking over committee members.

Acting committee chair Yesh Atid MK Adi Azuz, an opposition lawmaker, accused Ben Gvir of derailing the session, asking, “Did you come here to provoke or to help? Forty-six women have been murdered since the beginning of the year.”

“You haven’t done what I’ve done in the last three years,” the minister retorted, declining to elaborate.

https://www.timesofisrael.com/ben-gvir-upends-meeting-of-knesset-womens-rights-committee-says-it-harmed-police/

I would've hoped a link to Israeli rape crisis organisations could stay up on MN. One never knows when signposting info like that might be helpful to someone reading.

Its now visible.

So better to ask politely than sulk (memo to myself)!

Excellent. Looks like they do very valuable work.

Hypocrisy is the mark of men using religion as a shield for abuse. It's not confined to Judaeo-Christian religions or Islam, you will find it in Hinduism in India where child marriage, though illegal, still takes place. You will find it in Communist countries as well.

And sadly men who create cults which somehow nearly always whether based on politics, doom agendas or whatever, incorporate as part of its enforced behaviour is men having access to women and girl's bodies.