Ultra-Orthodox Jews traditionally don’t prefer to show images of women because it’s not considered modest. As Israeli newspaper Haaretz noted, political parties that represent the ultra-Orthodox sector ban women from running for office.
But some feel changing the photo of the Paris march went way too far. It was downright “embarrassing,” wrote Haaretz’s Allison Kaplan Sommer.
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It’s not the first time an ultra-Orthodox publication attempted to erase a female politician. In 2011, New York-based newspaper Di Tzeitung altered a picture to remove then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton out of a famous shot of White House leaders watching the raid that killed Osama bin Laden.
