israelinsider: Briefs: Law prevents more than a quarter of a million Israelis from marrying or divorcing

Israel's daily newsmagazine

today's weblog

Briefs > Israel the Beautiful

Tips to sharpen searches:
Put two or more words in quotation marks to find an exact phrase:
"Ariel Sharon"

Connect two or more words/phrases with "AND" for results that include both:
"Ariel Sharon" AND Netanyahu

Separate words with "OR" for results which include either of the words/phrases:
"separation fence" OR wall OR barrier

close


		search tips


		Law prevents more than a quarter of a million Israelis from marrying or divorcing Danny Ayalon gets around to visiting Jonathan Pollard Abbas gets $100M in aid from Japan, and slams Israel in thank you speech. Holocaust victims have been paid $735M of $1.25B from suit against Swiss banks Life expectancy rate in Israel among highest

		view all today

05.17.05

most recent


	Life expectancy rate in Israel among highest
	Left-wingers dedicate memorial day to fallen Palestinians, rather than Israelis
	Population of Israel reaches 6.9 million
	Israeli court rules in favor of passive euthanasia
	Israel's Marijuana Day goes up in smoke

Law prevents more than a quarter of a million Israelis from marrying or divorcing

By: Israel Insider staff and partners

Published: May 17, 2005

According to figures presented Monday to the Knesset Immigration and Absorption Committee, more than 280,000 Israeli citizens cannot marry or divorce in Israel because they do not belong to a legally recognized religious group.

Israeli law does not recognize civil marriage, and requires citizens to be married by their own clergy. Religious groups were determined during the Turkish period, which ended in 1917.

MK Yosef Paritzky (Shinui), who had called for the discussion on this issue, called it "crazy" that the state does not permit a quarter of a million people to marry and divorce, and Committee chair Colette Avital (Labor) called the situation "a time bomb."

Full Story:

Quarter of a million Israelis cannot marry or get a divorce - (Haaretz) 05.17.2005

Click on the blue headline to read a Talkback comment and respond to it. Click on the

icon to send a private email to the talkback writer. The icon appears only if the writer has decided to be contacted. If no popup window appears, please make sure your popup blocker allows israelinsider.com.