""When I was in the army it was assumed that the office of every senior officer was essentially a harem for him," said Michael Oren, an historian and a senior fellow at the Shalem Center, a Jerusalem research institute, who served in the military 30 years ago." (thanks Ema). Notice that the New York Times wrote the article as if Israel has become a feminist state simply because the president of Israel has been indicted on rape and harassment charges.