Israel’s minister in charge of religious-secular issues weighed in with a set of ideas aimed at ending a strident domestic debate on the relationship between religion and state. The proposals Rabbi Michael Melchior introduced came weeks after Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Barak introduced a set of proposals of his own intended to usher in an era of secular reforms.
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