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  • Another submission for civil burial in Modi'in
    Written by on 08/02/2023
    Another submission for civil burial in Modi'in

  • Update from Supreme Court Hearing on Registration of “Utah Marriages”
    Written by on 08/02/2023
    On Monday, January 30, 2023, the Supreme Court held a hearing on the State's appeal regarding the registration of Utah marriages in the Israeli population registry, as the population authority is required to do for civil marriages of Israelis that take place in all other countries of the world


  • Written by on 08/02/2023
    The storm in Israel is growing, and so are its reverberations and international consequences.

  • "Putting the Fat Man on a Diet"
    Written by on 01/02/2023
    In 2003, while serving as Finance Minister under PM Ariel Sharon, and facing a state of economic crisis, Netanyahu explained that the previously awarded generous State child benefits (which mostly impacted Haredi and Arab families) threatened to destroy Israel’s economy, and therefore he was cutting them back drastically. "The cause of this most severe impact and entry into the continuous cycle of poverty is the policy of [providing] excessive child benefits, which has taken whole generations out of the labor force… I want people to have children that they can support… A man can .. bring a family into the world with as many children as he wants, but he needs to understand that he has the primary responsibility to support them, educate them, finance them, take care of their future. He cannot abdicate this responsibility and transfer all or most of it to the state."

  • “Who is a Jew” is Back!
    Written by on 02/12/2022
    In recent days, there have been reports in the media from the coalition negotiation rooms that the Likud has accepted the demand of the ultra-Orthodox parties to change the law in a way that will prevent those who converted in Israel outside the Chief Rabbinate from receiving recognition as Jews, even at the civil level. This is not only a change to a long-standing ruling recognizing Reform and Conservative conversions in Israel, but also a step that is directed against Modern Orthodox conversions from the past few years, which are aimed at facilitating conversions of immigrants from the former Soviet Union.

  • "Who is a Jew?" is BACK!
    Written by on 01/12/2022
    Following Hiddush's demand at the beginning of this week to the Population Authority and Attorney General, as well as our threat to file for Contempt of Court on Sunday, we were informed just today that the Population Authority has decided to reverse its decision to refuse to register couples that were married through the State of Utah, USA, which were not included in Hiddush's original legal petition (see below). The Population Authority will be registering all the couples who were married via Utah online weddings!

  • North American lawyers address the new government
    Written by Uri Regev on 30/11/2022
    On November 30, JPLAN, a network of Jewish lawyers, judges and legal scholars from North America (the Jewish Pluralism Legal Action Network, which works to strengthen Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state in a manner that fully expresses freedom of religion and equality as promised in Israel’s Declaration of Independence) addressed the leaders of the parties currently working to form the new government.

  • From the Legal Trenches
    Written by on 29/11/2022
    The fight to advance freedom of marriage was crowned with yet another victory last week. A Supreme Court Justice, Prof. Dafna Barak-Erez, rejected the state's request to postpone implementation of the ruling by the administrative court in Jerusalem on "Utah marriages" (civil marriages of Israelis performed in Utah, USA, by video).

  • In the Legal Trenches: The State Appeals Marriage Rulings
    Written by on 10/11/2022
    After resounding victories in the Administrative Courts the State Attorney's Office refused to accept the defeat and filed an appeal to the Supreme Court challenging the rulings ordering registration of Utah “zoom weddings” and requested that their implementation be delayed.

  • How do we know that the override clause is a despicable initiative?
    Written by Uri Regev on 10/11/2022
    Many political figures present the demand for legislation of the “override clause” as essential for "the judicial system’s health”, for "increasing public trust in the Supreme Court", and a host of other slogans which sound reasonable and responsible, but which are actually far removed from that.

  • Election Aftermath: Religion-State Wars are Back!
    Written by on 10/11/2022
    The die is cast, and given past experience, this will be the case, at least for a while. The world's attention is currently focused on the characters of Ben Gvir, the Kahanist, and Smotrich, who demands to serve as Minister of Defense or Minister of Finance. However, the questions regarding the consequences that the new government will have on Israel’s Jewish character and on the future of the rule of law are no less important.

  • Upcoming Elections: Rule of Law in Israel and USA
    Written by on 27/10/2022
    The latest statements of the leaders of the ultra-orthodox parties that we reported on last week made it clear to what extent the demands they announced as pre-conditions to their joining the next coalition are related to their desire to eliminate the last barrier blocking their planned moves in the field of religious coercion, to further erode equality and pluralism, and to their attempts to perpetuate preferential treatment and favorable discrimination that they enjoy, as they demanded and received from their coalition partners (from the right, the center and the political left) in the past.

  • 2022 Israel Religion & State Index
    Written by on 17/10/2022
    A large majority of the Jewish public want freedom of religion, civil marriage, public transportation on Shabbat, conscription of yeshiva students, cuts to yeshiva budgets, enforcement of core curricular studies and more.

  • 2022 Israel Religion & State Index
    Written by on 17/10/2022
    A large majority of the Jewish public want freedom of religion, civil marriage, public transportation on Shabbat, conscription of yeshiva students, cuts to yeshiva budgets, enforcement of core curricular studies and more

  • Court rules: "Utah Marriages" to be registered!
    Written by on 02/10/2022
    The court has ruled: all Israeli couples married via "Utah Marriage" (video conferencing) are entitled to register as married.

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