Israel : New bill would legalize civil marriage, extend right to gays
Groundbreaking Yesh Atid proposal comes under fire from Jewish Home, but sponsors insist it ‘is not an attack on halachic marriage’.
Groundbreaking Yesh Atid proposal comes under fire from Jewish Home, but sponsors insist it ‘is not an attack on halachic marriage’.
Fresh from the dramatic passage on Monday of the Tzohar bill allowing Israelis to choose their marriage registrar and rabbi, the Knesset is set to take up an even more sweeping reform in Israeli marriage law.
The Yesh Atid faction presented a bill on Tuesday that seeks to legalize, for the first time, non-religious marriage in Israel.
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