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Women in Israeli govt? Not if Photoshop can help

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JERUSALEM, April 3: Two women serve in Israel´s new Cabinet, but some Israelis would rather not see them.



Newspapers aimed at ultra-Orthodox Jewish readers tampered with the inaugural photograph of the Cabinet, erasing ministers Limor Livnat and Sofa Landver. [break]



Ultra-Orthodox newspapers consider it immodest to print images of women.



The daily Yated Neeman digitally changed the photo, moving two male ministers into the places formerly occupied by the women.



The weekly Shaa Tova simply blacked the women out, in a photo reprinted Friday by the mainstream daily Maariv.



No response was available from the two papers.



During the election, campaign posters featuring female candidate Tzipi Livni were defaced near ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods.


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