Famous ultra-orthodox music and film star in Israel, Shuli Rand, marries his second wife, tv personality Tzufit Grant. And in case you misunderstand, we don’t mean that Rand is once divorced. This is actually his second concurrent wife. The pseudo-polygamous situation was given the all-clear by Israel’s Rabbinate because Rand’s first wife refused to agree to a divorce. So why is this controversial, though? Women’s rights groups among the first to point out that for ‘chained wives’, or women in Rand’s exact position – don’t have a magical permit that allows for remarriage when it’s the husband who can’t let go.
The pressures on the Israel-based spy-tech company, NSO, is quickly mounting. The NSO-group was recently blacklisted by the U.S for developing spyware that’s “used by foreign governments to ‘maliciously target’ various individuals” – including political dissidents, rights activists, journalists, ...
The Bennett-Lapid government is now taking their promise of ‘repairing ties with the west’ to new heights. On Monday, Foreign Minister and Alternate Prime Minister, Yair Lapid, met with U.S congressional democrats and members of the J-Street Organization. This, making for the first time in at lea...
It’s fairly well known that stress, and other psychological illnesses can result in horrendous physical consequences. We call such phenomena psychosomatic, but what we’re not exactly sure about, however, is how this works. That said, a team of researchers in Israel reveal a breakthrough, that cou...
