Campaigners in Israel are calling for new legislation against coercive control by abusive partners, falling in line with the UK and other states.
Laws in Britain prohibit stalking, restricting a partner’s movements, cutting them off from family and friends, controlling money or monitoring them electronically.
But Israel has no statutory definition of domestic abuse encompassing the full spectrum of coercive and controlling behaviour. Campaigners want definitions of domestic violence to go beyond physical assault and include all forms of abuse.
The Rackman Centre for the Advancement of the Status of Women at Bar-Ilan University, in Tel Aviv, is among those pushing for the country to introduce legislation to recognise coercive control, economic violence, and psychological abuse as forms of domestic violence
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