Published: 12 July 2015
Last updated: 4 March 2024
The day Netanyahu capitulated to the ultra-Orthodox – Haaretz 06.07.15
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Conversion reforms struck down by cabinet - The Times of Israel 05.07.15
Ministers also hand control of rabbinical courts to Shas and ultra-Orthodox
Jewish Agency chief slams repeal of conversion bill - The Times of Israel 06.07.15
Sharansky says an issue so crucial to the Jewish people should not be driven by coalition politics
Emunah petitions High Court against transfer of rabbinical courts – The Jerusalem Post 03.07.15
“The rights of women in all matters pertaining to marriage and divorce will be threatened if authority over the rabbinical courts network is transferred from the Justice Ministry to the Ministry of Religious Services”
Too busy protecting Israel from delegitimization to protect ourselves from Israel's delegitimization of us? - Menachem Creditor - The Times of Israel 05.07.15
The greatest tragedy is that those on the front lines of defending Israel on the grassroots level … are the very Jewish leaders marginalized by the ultra-Orthodox parties now embedded in the Netanyahu government. And for this horrific decision to have been made on a day of national Jewish mourning is a modern poetic manifestation of the horrors of this part of the Jewish calendar
