All the secular settlements you speak of are within 5 miles of the green line and nearly all are contiguous with Jerusalem. All of the settlements deep within the West Bank, that would need to be uprooted in a future peace deal, are motivated by religious right wingers diametrically opposed with labor. You’re being…

You’ve got it backwards. Orthodox women can and do initiate divorce, but the orthodox courts won’t necessarily grant it unless the man agrees. Men can also be denied divorces, however, if they can’t prove negligence on the wife’s part.

Your first two questions are super vague; the third one was because of a deal struck at the state’s founding that was changed in 2014, creating jail time for draft dodgers, which was then ammended last year because Bibi is a coward and wanted the haredi voting bloc. And the marriage issue is the same reason.

Theocracy according to meriam webster: 1. a form of government in which God or a deity is recognized as the supreme civil ruler, the God’s or deity’s laws being interpreted by the ecclesiastical authorities. 2. a system of government by priests claiming a divine commission.

God forbid Jews do anything that doesn’t involve Palestinians.

What? The labor party is anti-religious and is completely opposed to religious settlements in the West Bank.

“Michaeli is a progressive, feminist lawmaker in a country that cannot claim either label”