Published: 21 March 2017
Last updated: 4 March 2024
This coming Monday, the Knesset’s Science and Technology Committee will hold a hearing that has broad implications for every Israeli Jew, and potentially for every Jew throughout the world. The very notion of creating databases about people’s status contradicts basic halachic (Jewish legal) norms.
And see:
Banned and barred, Israel’s women stand up to religious hardliners – Emma Graham-Harrison – The Guardian 19.03.17
Ultra-Orthodox influence has excluded women from speaking at funerals and public prayers, and taken them off the radio.
Most Israelis want more freedom of religion October 15, 2016
