Israel’s Chief Rabbinate is now prepared to allow civil marriages in certain problematic cases, mainly involving Russian immigrants. Sephardi Chief Rabbi Eliahu Bakshi-Doron told members of the Knesset Law Committee the chief rabbis would not object to such marriages in cases where they do not recognize either partner as Jewish, or in other cases where traditional Jewish marriage is impossible. Currently all Jewish marriages in Israel must be performed by Orthodox rabbis.
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