Court rules ministry must recognize online marriages
The Jerusalem court for administrative affairs has ruled that the population authority and interior ministry must recognize as married couples who wed online in the framework of the so-called Utah Marriages. The court accepted a petition lodged by the non-profit organization Hiddush – for Religious Freedom and Equality, on behalf of eight couples whom the population authority did not register as married at the directive of then-Interior Minister Aryeh Deri of the ultra-Orthodox Shas party.
A Utah marriage is a wedding ceremony with a marriage officiant in Utah County and remote, live…
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