A bill to reserve four places on the rabbinical judges appointments committee for women was successfully passed into law at 4:00 am today, but not before haredi MKs repeatedly stalled the legislative process to try to prevent it.
The Jerusalem Post reports:
A bill to reserve four places on the rabbinical judges appointments committee for women was successfully passed into law in the early hours of Tuesday morning, but not before haredi MKs repeatedly stalled the legislative process due to their vehement opposition….
Every single MK of the haredi parties, numbering 19 in total, filed procedural reservations to the bill, with several of those members utilising the full 30 minutes of debate time allocated for every reservation to stall the passage of the law.
The bill finally passed its second and third readings at 4am. As well as reserving four spots on the committee for women, the law will also expand the panel from ten to eleven members, with the extra member being a qualified female rabbinical courts advocate. The law means that at least one of government delegates to the panel, one of the Knesset delegates and one of the Israel Bar Association delegates will be a woman. The rabbinical courts advocate will be the fourth female member.…
The guarantee of four spots for women will only take effect with the election of a new Knesset and the subsequent governmental and Knesset appointments to the body.…