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Rabbinical court orders serially unfaithful husband to pay ex-wife 180,000 shekels
The former husband admitted he was unfaithful, and the rabbinical court ruled that under Jewish law he is considered a habitual adulterer, ordering him to pay his ex-wife part of the ketubah he signed at their wedding
Attorney Marina Weisfelner, PsakDin | 02.18.26
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Rabbinical courts adopt first protocol to protect sexual assault and domestic violence survivors
New rules mandate separate waiting areas, escorts and minimal contact with alleged offenders during testimony after years without uniform safeguards
Shilo Freid | 02.15.26
Fighting at the front, divorcing at home: divorces rise steadily during national crises
More than two years after October 7, new data shows how war and national emergencies strain Israeli families, with rabbinical court research finding a direct link between crises and divorce, peaking in 2021 and again in 2024
Shilo Freid | 02.09.26
בית הדין הרבני בתל אביב
When family courts fail single mothers, rabbinical courts step in
Opinion: In the usual chorus, rabbinical courts are cast as villains to women’s rights—but in many cases, their judges better grasp the economic reality of single mothers, while family courts uphold blind equality that leaves women with minimal support
Vered Ovadiya | 11.26.25
בית הדין הרבני
Former chief rabbi, senior judge suspected of extorting and skewing rabbinical rulings
Probe began when judge on regional rabbinical court reported to police that he was being pressured by High Rabbinical Court to influence rulings in disputes involving hekdeshot — religious endowments that include valuable real estate
Meir Turgeman, Shilo Freid | 11.18.25
Israeli woman jailed for refusing to accept Jewish divorce in rare rabbinical court ruling
Tel Aviv Rabbinical Court imposed sentence after years of attempts to persuade the woman to accept the divorce, including efforts by police officers who brought the document to her home
Shilo Freid | 11.12.25
Can snoring end a marriage? Rabbinical court says yes
Judges rule that a husband’s untreated snoring constitutes grounds for divorce and financial liability, ordering him to pay estranged wife $35,000 in compensation
Shilo Freid | 08.19.25
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Israel's top rabbinical court overturns suicide victim's will
High Rabbinical Court has ruled that a woman who died by suicide cannot be cremated, despite a request in her will, and that her body must be buried in Israel
Attorney Mayan Peretz, Psak Din | 03.12.25
פעילות צה"ל ברצועת עזה
Rabbinical panel to address agunot cases amid war
Chief Rabbi David Lau instructs rabbinical courts to refer such cases to special committee, addressing the concerns of women who wish to remarry but whose husbands' status remains uncertain
Ynet | 12.25.23
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