Recently, a documentary aired on Israeli TV about a woman named Hila Gal who revealed the story of her difficult life.
She was born to a Holocaust survivor father who immigrated to Israel. The father attained the prestigious role of pilot in the Israel Air Force, married and raised a seemingly-impressive family with four children. From outward appearances they seemed to be the ideal Israeli family.
However, Hila revealed in the documentary that starting from when she was 4 years old, her brother, who was 10 years older than her, raped her secretly in their home twice a week, until she was 19 years old. During the period she also became pregnant by him and had an abortion.
This horror took place under the family roof. The other family members should have discerned what was happening. But seemingly no one noticed anything was amiss.
In the meantime the guilty brother was also accepted into the prestigious role of pilot in his mandatory IDF service, and afterward attained the eminently respectable profession of medical doctor.
When Hila gathered courage and told family...
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So the rapist must marry a woman he doesn’t love, keep her and raise her children with no chance of remission for the rest of his life. He is condemned to a lifetime of shame, and must bear the life-long scorn, reproach and venom of a woman who has been denied her father’s choice of husband for her. The woman has the power of the State to ensure he meets all the demands made of him. It is in his interest to placate her as much as he can that his life could become more tolerable. Surely that’s a powerful injunction against committing rape and one which would prevent the likelihood of it recurring. The victim would be a martyr to the cause of keeping other women safe, which they would surely appreciate.