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Candles with a picture of late Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin, at a memorial ceremony to commemorate the18th anniversary of Rabin's assassination, at the president's house in Jerusalem on October 15, 2013. Photo by Miriam Alster/FLASH90
The question Israel still hasn’t answered about Rabin’s murder
There is nothing wrong with inviting those who resisted Rabin’s policies to speak at the rally in his memory. But they need to answer one fundamental question first. By Tomer Persico Every murder is terrible in its own way, but political murder is uniquely terrible. Political murder—for example, the assassination of an elected leader—erodes the…
By +972 Magazine November 1, 2017
An Israeli Wedding (illustration, the people in this photo are not related to the content of the article. photo by: Yosef Silver/flickr)
Israel’s marriage police: An aberration from Jewish tradition
From interrogations to blacklists to computerized databases, Israel’s rabbinical authorities have adopted a coercive system of oversight that punishes violators of Jewish law’s bans on ‘certain’ kinds of relationships. By Akiva Miller Everyone knows that Israel’s Jewish-Orthodox-controlled marriage system must change. But while activists, lawyers and politicians struggling to reform it have won some important…
By +972 Magazine December 18, 2014
Shas spiritual leader Ovadia Yosef (Wkimeida Commons CC BY SA 3.0)
Sephardic spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef passes away at 93
Former Sephardic chief rabbi and spiritual leader of Shas was known for efforts to reconcile Jewish law with modernity, advance the status of Mizrahi Jews in the Israeli religious establishment and in Israeli politics and society. Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the spiritual leader of the Sephardic-Haredi Shas party passed away Monday at the age of 93.…
By +972 Magazine October 7, 2013
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