Marriage in israel

After months apart on reserve duty, married Israeli couples face a new challenge at home

A 2024 study, published in Archives of Sexual Behavior, of couples during the current war found that wartime stress sharply reduces sexual well-being and emotional closeness.

 An IDF reservist kisses his child before boarding the bus, in Jerusalem, May 2025.
A surge in the number of weddings in 2024, but young people are in no rush to get married

Which Israeli cities are best for singles?

Sari Bashi is an Israeli-American human rights lawyer, author, and activist specializing in international humanitarian law and Israeli policy.

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

Former prime minister Naftali Bennett at a conference in Jerusalem, February 17, 2026; illustrative.

Former PM Bennett backs civil marriage, public transport on Shabbat


Rabbinical court voided marriage by invalidating witness

The fact that one of the witnesses was not religious at the wedding provided a perfect opportunity to invalidate the marriage.

A chain, symbolic of women chained to marriage

Civil marriage in Eilat to be proposed in forthcoming legislation

The bill would allow civil marriages to place in Eilat, but is facing opposition from all sides.

A bride and groom kiss under the chuppah at their wedding

A ‘huppa' in the holy land

We’ve been very blessed to share in three weddings since becoming olim hadashim. Each was moving and memorable in its own way.

A wedding in Israel

Recent trend shows Jewish marriage on the wane in Israel

Several organizations have expressed concern with the number of Jewish citizens marrying outside the rabbinate.

A couple stands underneath a ‘huppa’ during their secular wedding ceremony in Tel Aviv.

'Married' - and unmarried - in the blink of an eye

Did couples' inability to hold legal weddings in Israel for reality TV show affect the outcome?

Wedding rings [Illustrative]

Raising the bar

The Chief Rabbbinate remains a corrupt institution, but one making small steps of progress.

File photo: Divorce.

In Israel and everywhere, happy, lasting marriages are possible

In a society as complex as Israel’s where there is such a strong intersection between religion and society, marriage is an institution that is even more sacred than in other areas of Western society.

A MARRIAGE proposal.

Israel's 'chained women' struggle with the rabbinate for a divorce

Each year there are created hundreds of reported and unreported cases of women unable to terminate their marriages.

THE RABBINICAL court in Tel Aviv

Rabbinical Courts rapidly adding names to marriage blacklists

If people are on the Prevented from Marrying list, neither they nor their children will ever be able to get married in Israel.

An Orthodox wedding ceremony

New campaign reopens debate on civil marriage in Israel

A provision for civil marriage doesn't exist in Israeli law, with marriage and divorce possible only through the established religious institutions.

Wedding rings [Illustrative]