Newspaper in Israel Scrubs Women From a Photo of Paris Unity Rally

Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany was right there next to the president of France, marching through the streets of Paris for all the world to see -- all the world, that is, except the readers of an ultra-Orthodox newspaper in Israel.

The newspaper, HaMevaser, altered a front-page photograph of the march to remove Chancellor Merkel and other female leaders, setting off snickers and satire on social media. Ultra-Orthodox publications generally avoid pictures of women for reasons of modesty, and their intended audience has been known to scratch women’s faces out of bus advertisements and to bar them from running for public office in their parties. But some people saw the deletions from the Paris photograph as a more serious sin