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Israel's Lapid Warns Against A 'Halachic State'

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Posted on 11/21/22 | From i24

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'Women will not be told where they are allowed and where they are not allowed to stand,' says Yair Lapid



Israel's outgoing Prime Minister Yair Lapid accused the incoming government on Monday of forgetting that the country is not a "halachic state," meaning a nation that follows strict Jewish law. 


This comes amid requests from the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism party and the far-right Religious Zionism party to legalize gender segregation, a practice deemed discriminatory. 





While speaking at a meeting of his centrist Yesh Atid party, Lapid pointed to said requests and commented that “the State of Israel is a Jewish state, not a halachic state,” referring to halacha, Jewish religious law.


“Women will not be told where they are allowed and where they are not allowed to stand," he continued. Lapid added that the parties expected to be in the incoming coalition “will not rip this country apart into those who serve in the army and those who do not, those who work and those who do not," referencing requests from the religious parties.