Israel Minister of Welfare Rabbi I.M. Lewin told the first postwar conference of the world executive of Agudas Israel at a closed session here today that one of the achievements in Israel of the Agudah, which is a member of the coalition government, has been assurance of “observance in public of such basic Jewish traditional laws as the Sabbath laws.”
The Agudah leader also listed as achievements of the Agudah in Israel the “recognition of an autonomous religious school network within the framework of the compulsory education system in the Jewish state” and “exemption from military conscription of women who have religious or other objections.” During the past year, Minister Lewin reported, enrollment in the Agudah schools has increased 40 percent.
The Israel Minister added that “traditional Jewry could not yet be satisfied with its attainments in the religious field in Israel. Further significant concessions must be secured from the government and the secular parties,” he said.
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