Jewish Agency for Israel Chairman Avraham Burg announced that the three streams of Judaism were nearing agreement to have those converted in Israel by the non- Orthodox streams listed as Jews on their identity cards. The agreement – – separate from the issues being discussed by the Ne’eman Committee — would grant them their civil rights as immigrants or Israeli citizens. But the Religious Affairs Ministry could continue to refuse them marriage or burial because they were not converted under the aegis of the Orthodox.
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