Published: 7 June 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Lapid says Netanyahu turning Israel into Iran by agreeing to gender segregation (Times of Israel)
TV report uncovers draft agreement between Likud and ultra-Orthodox parties to change law barring discriminatory separation between men and women in public
Netanyahu rejects MK’s call to run Israel according to Jewish religious law (Times of Israel)
In terse tweet, PM says country will not become a ‘halacha state,’ after hardline political ally urged restoring ‘the Torah justice system’
In coalition talks, PM accepted Haredi demand for gender segregated public areas (Times of Israel)
After draft of its understandings with United Torah Judaism on issues of religion and state leaked to press, Likud claims deal was never finalised
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Most Israelis don’t want chief rabbinate deciding for them who is a Jew, survey finds (Haaretz)
Only 32 percent of Israeli Jews want to keep the Rabbinate's monopoly over conversions intact, yet more than half would not allow their child to marry a non-Jew
52% of Israelis want it to be easier to convert to Judaism, survey finds (JTA)
Photo: A barrier separates women from men at a Chabad event on Rabin Square, Tel Aviv, June 2018 (Ilan Assayag)
