This article was automatically translated from HIBAPRESS, the Arabic version:
HIBAPRESS-RABAT
Law II article 6 on marriage and divorce in Israel
in Israel, only the man can decide on the end of the marital union. According to traditional Judaism, a woman who separates from her husband without obtaining the gett, the certificate of divorce, cannot remarry. Any children she later had would be considered mamzerim, bastards. A status which has serious consequences, including the ban on marrying someone who does not share this sad fate. None of this for the man whose wife refused a divorce, Judaism having authorized polygamy for hundreds of years.
Thus, in Israel, one in five Jewish women who seek divorce find themselves kept in marriage against their will for sometimes years, according to figures communicated by the Mavoi Satum association, which defends them. All this only concerns traditional Judaism, which bases its religious practice on the observance of the Shulhan Aruch (“Set Table” in Hebrew), a code of Jewish laws compiled in the 16th century. This fundamental text enacts laws relating to daily life, religious life, married life and civil law. Reform Jewish currents (liberal, conservative), the majority outside Israel, revised the discriminatory sections of this work in the 19th century.
