There were 18 percent fewer divorces during 2006 in communities shelled by Hezbollah during last summer’s 34-day conflict compared to the previous year, despite an overall increase of 3.8 percent in the national divorce rate, according to data issued by Israel’s rabbinical courts. Rabbi Eliahu Ben-Dahan, secretary-general of the courts, told Yediot Achronot that the change in the northern communities was a result of the war, though it was not clear if the conflict had brought couples closer together or simply caused them to postpone divorces while they repaired physical damage from the fighting.
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