Marriage in israel

'Upside-Down Love': An Israeli-Palestinian memoir of marriage across borders

Israeli-American lawyer Sari Bashi recounts in her memoir a relationship shaped by restriction and distance, where love unfolds within the limits of the law

Sari Bashi is an Israeli-American human rights lawyer, author, and activist specializing in international humanitarian law and Israeli policy.
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett at a conference in Jerusalem, February 17, 2026; illustrative.

Former PM Bennett backs civil marriage, public transport on Shabbat

After Years of Struggle, Get Finally Granted on Eve of Rosh Hashanah

Starting the Jewish New Year with freedom: Woman granted divorce after 23-year fight

 The parents don't want to come to the wedding because of the food

What's in a name? Why women are increasingly choosing to keep their maiden names after marriage


This Normal Life: Breaking the rabbinate’s monopoly on marriage

"What's missing is the destruction from within," says Rabbi Chuck Davidson.

Rabbi Chuck Davidson

This Normal Life: Wedding in Cyprus – the modern Zionist irony

It is a shame they had to leave Israel on the very day of our aliya to get married abroad.

Couples of Russian and Israeli origins kiss during a mass wedding in Larnaca, Cyprus, in June last year

Love revolution on Tu Be'av: 74% of Israeli public want egalitarian marriage

Hiddush Rabbi Uri Regev: "We must not accept a continuation of the situation in which Israel is the lone western democracy that denies its citizens the right to marry as they wish."

Jewish wedding (Illustrative)

Foreign common-law spouses, including gays, can become dual nationals

The state altered its position on the issue on August 1, with the High Court issuing a ruling on August 4. But the decision has come to light only now.

Gay marriage

Enough With the Ghosting - Have a Real Break Up!

The Jerusalem Post

Illegal underage marriages being ignored by authorities, committee finds

The Age of Marriage Law in Israel stipulates that any child, male or female, under the age of 18 may not marry without special permission that is granted by family court in exceptional cases.

Wedding

'Hundreds of thousands can’t marry in Israel'

There is growing mistrust in the chief rabbinate which has exclusive jurisdiction over marriage and divorce, and the increasing public support for civil marriage.

A Jewish wedding.

A voice in the wilderness

An exclusive interview with Rabbi Simcha Krauss, a towering figure in religious Orthodoxy in the US who has sought to find solutions to ‘agunot’ by way of a rabbinical court he helped found in 2014.

A scene from the movie ‘Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem,’ whose portrait of ‘callous rabbis’ Krauss found painful – and true

An elusive journey

Engagements, typically a cause for celebration, are overshadowed by rabbinate bureaucracy.

Rabbi Seth Farber, under the ‘huppa,’ marries a couple that ITIM helped with the Jewish status clarification process.

WATCH: Knesset Guard surprises girlfriend with marriage proposal during dignitary visit

This is thought to be the first proposal to take place at the Knesset.

Surprising wedding proposal at the Knesset