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This week in Jewish history: Balfour Declaration and battle of Sharm el-Sheikh

A highly abridged weekly version of Dust & Stars.

Arthur James Balfour
 A screenshot in the app showing hostage Agam Berger and her favorite hobby.

Gett highlights Gaza hostages' hobbies in awareness campaign

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Pango acquires Gett in $175 million mega-deal

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Gett Delivery Expands Express Delivery Service Deployment


Ben Gurion Airport to receive dedicated taxi service operated by Gett

Gett will pay NIS 6.15 per trip from the airport to the Israel Airports Authority (IAA) as part of the contract.

 Taxis at the Ben Gurion Airport outside of Tel Aviv on August 7, 2018

Yad La'isha: Jerusalem center fighting trapped marriages

Also known as “The Aguna Warrior,” Yad La'isha director Pnina Omer and her Jerualem-based organization fight to free women in trapped marriages.

 Pnina Omer, director of Ohr Torah Stone’s Yad La’isha, in front of an artistic photo exhibit on the pain of being in a trapped marriage.

Why I refused to get a 'get' - Jewish rabbinical divorce - opinion

Why cause me further suffering and humiliation? Why was my conduct not enough to satisfy the Rabbinate that my divorce was justified?

 WHAT IF he says to you, ‘Vivian. We can only get married under a huppa.’

Courts grant woman a Get after husband loses ability to speak

He originally refused to grant her a divorce before suffering a stroke and going mute, making it nearly impossible for him to grant one in the future.

 PROTESTERS OUTSIDE the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court demand a woman’s right to receive a divorce from an abusive husband.

Divorce refusal is violence against women - opinion

Over the years we have increasingly understood that get-refusal is a tool used by men who are perfectly willing to threaten their wives.

 PROTESTERS OUTSIDE the Jerusalem Rabbinical Court demand a woman’s right to receive a divorce from an abusive husband.

Rabbinical court approves public shaming to force get refuser's hand

After Aryeh Leib Kishon refused to give his wife a get, despite both religious and secular sanctions and pressure, the court resorted to public shaming.

Rabbinical court approves shaming as method to coax get refuser into paying.

Shira Isakov and the need for ‘aguna’ reform - opinion

The plight of the aguna cannot be ignored and we are failing our women – all of society, indeed we are failing God – if we simply throw up our hands and let this situation be allowed to continue.

A GROUP of women – one holding a sign that says ‘Electronic bracelets save lives’ – participate in nationwide strike protesting violence against women, in Tel Aviv in 2018.

In the Netherlands, judges can lock up Jewish men who refuse divorce

The Netherlands is the only country that comes close to that system.

A Dutch judge, Hendrik Steenhuis, presides over a hearing at the Schiphol Judicial Court complex in Badhoevedorp, March 9, 2020.

HERE Mobility closes Israeli headquarters amid coronavirus pandemic

Like Gett, Uber and Lyft, HERE Mobility creates systems for transportation services used in taxi companies and transportation companies, among others to optimize their ability to process orders.

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Country’s longest divorce refuser walks free from prison

‘The chief rabbinate don’t care that they haven’t provided me with a solution. That’s what bothers me,’ says agunah of over two decades

File photo: Divorce.

The rabbinate’s own wake-up call

Israel’s Rabbinical Court is indeed more powerful that any of its counterparts in the Diaspora. Empowered by civil law, it holds sole jurisdiction over the personal status of Jews in Israel.

A GLASS of wine is poured during a Jewish wedding ceremony.