Israelis can choose between religious and secular dating systems for inscriptions on their tombstones, Israel’s Supreme Court ruled. The court was acting on the petition of a family that sought Western dates on the tombstone of Rosa Greital, who died in 1986 and was buried in a cemetery near Tel Aviv. The high court ruled Tuesday that the nation’s burial societies, which are under Orthodox control, cannot require families to abide by their religious rules.
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