Rabbinical court

Petition to High Court seeks to strike down new rabbinical courts arbitration law

“The powers of the Rabbinical Courts should be curtailed, not expanded,” Israel Hofsheet CEO Uri Keidar said in a statement.

APRIL 9, 2026|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Activists protest against a bill that would give more authorities to the rabbinical courts outside the Rabbinical Court of Tel Aviv, December 11, 2024; illustrative.

Law widening religious courts’ role in civil disputes sparks debate over choice, rights - analysis

Critics also challenge one of the law’s intended benefits of easing pressure on the civil courts, arguing that the state is instead giving an existing judicial body additional authority.

MARCH 30, 2026|BySARAH BEN-NUN

THE CHIEF RABBINATE’S Supreme Court for Appeals in Jerusalem: Israelis deserve a religious court system that honors both Halacha and human dignity, the writer asserts.

Knesset passes law expanding powers of Israel’s rabbinic courts to arbitrate civil matters

Under the law, rabbinical courts may act as arbitrators only with the consent of all parties.

MARCH 24, 2026|ByKESHET NEEV

Finance Committee chair MK Hanoch Milwidsky leads a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, during the war with Iran and Hezbollah, March 15, 2026.

Rabbinical, Sharia courts to be allowed to arbitrate civil disputes, Knesset decides

The Knesset passed the bill expanding the powers of religious courts, such as a rabbinical or Sharia court, in its second and third reading.

MARCH 24, 2026|ByTZVI JASPER

Rabbinic ruling: Families of Ethiopian Airlines victims can sit shiva

Widows of the two Israelis killed in the the crash of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 must wait “several months” for identification of body parts to be released from their agunot status.

APRIL 1, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON

Special Rabbinical Court convenes on Sunday

Rabbinical court tells Egged to fire worker for refusing to grant divorce

The couple in question, whose names cannot be disclosed, immigrated to Israel from India several years ago with their only child.

FEBRUARY 11, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON

An Egged bus in front of the Jerusalem Central Bus Station

Prevention of the classic ‘aguna’

The problem of a spouse, whether the husband or the wife, refusing to sever the bonds of marriage in accordance with Jewish law even at the marriage’s end, is unfortunately all too common.

JANUARY 12, 2019ByRACHEL LEVMORE

A JEWISH bride waits for her groom during a traditional wedding ceremony in Jerusalem

Man permitted to marry second wife after first wife absconds with child

The husband opened divorce proceedings with the Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court but the woman did not respond to the divorce suit.

JANUARY 7, 2019ByJEREMY SHARON

THE RABBINICAL court of Tel Aviv. It has been said that rabbinical courts allow men to hold back consent to divorce their wives in order to extort the women into agreeing to unfair overall terms.

Woman fined by Rabbinical Court for seeking police assistance

Ex-husband allegedly owes NIS 100,000 in child support payments and harassed his former wife and her partner.

DECEMBER 26, 2018ByJEREMY SHARON

Freedom is not with the Rabbinical Court

Freedom is not with the Rabbinical Court – but in the hands of the husband and his father.

NOVEMBER 10, 2018ByPNINA OMER

Alan Dershowitz at the Jerusalem Post Conference in New York, May 7, 2017

17-year prisoner for divorce refusal could be released from incarceration

Tzviya Gorodetsky’s request that the rabbinical courts close her divorce case with Meir Gorodestky was granted by the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court on Tuesday.

OCTOBER 24, 2018ByJEREMY SHARON