The Ministry for Religious Affairs reported yesterday that divorces are running at a rate of 10 percent of marriages among Israel’s Jewish population. The rabbinate registered 18,200 marriages and 1,960 divorces last year. Civil marriage and divorce are prohibited in Israel. In another area, the Ministry announced that it had found pulpits for 19 new immigrant rabbis during the past year and had helped them find housing with interest-free loans provided by the Wolfson Foundation.
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