Women crowd-source their own security on Tel Aviv's streets

A woman presents the SafeUP, a women's safety net application, at a co-working space in Tel Aviv, Israel March 15, 2021 REUTERS/ Corinna Kern

TEL AVIV (Reuters) - The 2011 party in central Israel turned grim when a woman was cornered by two men in a side-room. Then her girlfriends, worried about her absence, turned up. The assailants fled.

It was a strength-in-numbers moment that inspired one of the friends, Neta Schreiber, to develop SafeUp, an app that allows women who feel threatened or unsafe to summon help from other subscribers.