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OPPOSES: MK Zehava Galon: “The decision will harm women and could be used by men as a bargaining chip against them.”
SUPPORTS: Rabbi Eliyahu Heishrik of the Chief Rabbinate: “We need to also consider the situation in which the man makes less money than the woman.”
By Gideon Allon
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In a heated debate during a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee, MK Rachel Azaria (Kulanu) said, “The man holds the ‘whip’ of providing a ‘get’ [religious divorce document] in his hands, and women are prepared to pay everything they have to buy their freedom.”