Tag: polygamy.

The the JNF is planting a trees on state land in the Negev has upset the Arab MK.

In recent years, two bills have been introduced in an attempt to prevent the rise of Bedouin polygamy in Israel, but both have failed to be enacted.

Netanyahu called it "a huge industry that provides an incentive to bring women from Jordan and Saudi Arabia."

The ruling encourages Bedouin husbands to marry many women and divorce them on paper, while receive assistance for their polygamous families with income supplements intended for the single mothers but in reality going to the spouses.

The Torah explicitly says that a husband may divorce his wife if he so pleases. How can Rabbenu Gershom forbid this practice when the Torah seemingly permits it?

Polygamist cult leader Goel Razton is convicted in Tel Aviv District Court, and gets 30 years in prison.