Orthodox paper photoshops women out of Israeli cabinet

 The Israeli ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Neeman reached new levels of Stalin-esque photoshop audacity by doctoring photos of Israel’s new government to remove female ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver and replacing them with male ministers. (Click the photo for a larger version.) If Tzipi Livni had been elected, I would imagine the paper would have ...

By , a former associate editor at Foreign Policy.
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 The Israeli ultra-Orthodox newspaper Yated Neeman reached new levels of Stalin-esque photoshop audacity by doctoring photos of Israel’s new government to remove female ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver and replacing them with male ministers. (Click the photo for a larger version.) If Tzipi Livni had been elected, I would imagine the paper would have been pretty text-heavy on most days.

Unfortunately, no one has yet invented software that can make Foreign Miniser Avigdor Lieberman disappear.

Joshua Keating was an associate editor at Foreign Policy. Twitter: @joshuakeating

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