A petition that was filed with the Supreme Court seeking to compel chareidi parties to include women in their lists was rejected by the court. The women filing with the court wished to compel the parties to include women in their lists for the upcoming elections, for the 20th Knesset. Some of the women signed to the petition to the nation’s highest court include Rutie Yehoshua, Emunah Witt, Sharon Friedman, Mazel Chori and a women’s NGO.
Justices Dr. Yoram Felix Danziger, Uzi Fogelman and Manny Mazuz did not accept the petitioners’ position. They explained that only four days remain before the deadline for parties to announce the list and the court simply did not have sufficient time to address such a complex petition.
Prior to turning to the High Court, the women took their petition to Central Election Committee Chair Justice Salim Jubran, who rejected it on the basis that he does not have the right to impose such a request on the chareidi parties.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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Are they for real? Anyway, there is no truly chareidi woman in her right mind who would want to be on the party list. That’s what they can’t understand. It bothers them no end that we are happy not to be in politics. Maybe they want to pass a law and them drag someone into the Knesset, at gun point?
They do everything in their power to try to make chareidi women be like them. They try to destroy the Beis Yakov system, trying but not succeeding to force us to teach studies that we don’t want taught, etc.
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