A Reform member of Netanya’s religious council participated for the first time in a meeting of the council. The move came eight months after Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered the appointment of Joyce Brenner, a Meretz representative, to the body, all of whose remaining members are Orthodox men. Only 16 of the 27 members showed up for Brenner’s first day.
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