In 1996, IWN successfully appealed to the High Court on behalf of women’s basketball champions Elitzur Jeunesse Holon over the issue of unequal funding for women’s sports teams. The High Court appointed a national committee to establish guidelines ensuring equitable funding for women’s and men’s sports, and specified that an IWN representative must sit on the committee.

In that decision, the High Court stated that the obligation of sports associations to act on the basis of equality stems from the general and fundamental obligations imposed on all governmental authorities to operate fairly. They are prohibited from acting on the basis of arbitrariness, discrimination, conflicts of interest, lack of good faith or lack of reasonableness. The Court emphasized that equality is a means to attain justice.

However, in 2002, Israeli society is still far from achieving equitable funding for women's sports and equal representation of women in sports management. Less than 13% of the funding for sports is allocated to women's sports -- and fewer than 10% of those serving as administrators in sports organizations are women.

In 2002, IWN and the Association for the Advancement of Women in Sports submitted a bill to the Knesset, in order to seek equality and justice for women and girls in sports.

If enacted, the bill would require that equal funding and appropriate representation be given to both sexes in all sports organizations and sports associations in Israel -- including in sports positions and in management.

The proposed bill is intended to ensure that women and girls will have equal opportunities in the field of sports, and that there will be an equal division of those government's resources that are allocated to sports.

In July 2002 IWN submitted a petition to the High Court in conjunction with the Association for Promoting women in Sport, against the Basketball Association in Israel, the Minister for Science, Sport and Culture, and the Sports Unions - requiring a) equal representation of women in management and other senior positions of the Association and b) an increase in funding for women in sport. The preliminary hearing in October 2002 favored the IWN and the Association for Promoting Women in Sport, giving the Basketball Association three months in which they would have to take concrete steps to ensure the fair representation of women and satisfy the requirements of the IWN and the Assoc. for Promoting Women in Sport.