Israel’s High Court of Justice ordered the Religious Affairs Ministry to provide the nation’s Conservative movement some $165,000 in funding it should have received in 1997 and 1998. The funding had been denied because of the ministry’s discriminatory policy toward the movement, the court ruled Oct. 7.
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