Israel’s High Rabbinical Court of Appeals became today the first Jewish institution to establish its headquarters in East Jerusalem–the former Old City. Later today, Yeshiva Benei Akiva also moved to Old Jerusalem, to a site near the Zion Gate made available to the institution by the Ministry of Religious Affairs. The Yeshiva has 30 students, some of whom are abroad.
The High Court rented quarters previously occupied by a Moslem school for girls. Sephardic Chief Rabbi Itzhak Nissim affixed a mezuzah to the front door of the building, and it became officially the High Court’s headquarters. The first case heard by the court today concerned a divorce.
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