Published: 28 June 2018
Last updated: 4 March 2024
Israel's Culture Minister blocks mixed-gender prayer at Western Wall (Haaretz)
Miri Regev, who heads the committee in charge of approving plan to construct a site for egalitarian prayer, announced she's resigning from the council
'The Reforms' demand is unacceptable' (Israel National News)
Minister Regev refuses Netanyahu's request to enlarge the mixed prayer section at the Western Wall
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Law for rabbinical courts to hear non-Israeli divorce cases approved (Jerusalem Post)
The law is seen as controversial since it expands the jurisdiction of the state rabbinical courts to non-citizens on the highly charged issue of divorce refusal.
New law allows Israeli rabbinical courts to punish Diaspora husbands who refuse religious divorce (JTA)
Israel’s Knesset passed a new law that allows the country’s rabbinical courts to handle the divorce cases of non-Israelis in cases where the husband is withholding a get, or Jewish writ of divorce
Photo: Female activists praying at the Western Wall (Michal Fattal)
