Only in situations where violence against women isn’t addressed properly by the authorities can the majority of indictments for sex crimes be closed and most of those seeking help from rape crisis centers fail to go to file a report with the Israeli Police. The majority of Israeli victims of sexual assault, rape, and sexual harassment are not liars. Although the suffering they endured is far from trivial, they merely don’t see how reporting their ordeal to the Israeli authorities will change any thing for the better.
In the majority of cases, this is because they might lack the hard physical evidence to prove their ordeal. After all, a child rape victim, by the time they are old enough to speak about their rape, lacks all physical evidence that they were raped. In cases where a woman was sexually harassed by a co-worker in an office when only they were there has her word against his. It is time for Israel to make it easier for victims of rape, sex crimes, and sexual harassment to prove the veracity of their stories.