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The Crusaders Fighting Sex Abuse in the Underbelly of Israel's Ultra-Orthodox Community

The practice was simple: If you don't speak about sexual violence, it doesn't exist. Then these three started a Haredi awareness revolution

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Nati Toker

Jerusalem in late 2015 was a place marked by fear. It was mainly fear of lone wolf terrorists with knives, but Avigail Karlinsky thought it time to explain something to men: Maybe they weren’t used to constantly being alert, warily looking left and right for attackers, but women were. “I hereby tell you that a woman walking in the street alone at night walks just like that,” the 28-year-old Karlinsky, who is ultra-Orthodox, wrote on Facebook. “Every woman knows what I’m talking about. There isn’t a single one who doesn’t.”

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