Posted on 10/09/24
| News Source: JPost
Yom Kippur prayers in Meir Garden in Tel Aviv can take place with partitions to separate men and women, Israel’s High Court of Justice ruled on Wednesday.
The ruling was part of an appeal against the decision that prohibited how the prayer would be held.
Justices Mintz, Grosskopf, and Kasher issued the High Court ruling, which stated that the Tel Aviv municipality is authorized to make arrangements for the Yom Kippur prayer to separate based on gender using partitions at the request of the appellants.
The appellant, the Rosh Yehudi association, welcomed the decision, N12 reported. In their statement quoted by N12, they said, “Tel Aviv is part of the Jewish state, and those who wish to pray separately with a partition will be able to do so...Judaism is stronger than any municipal regulation and more than the unfortunate decision of the Tel Aviv municipality to exclude the traditional public and Judaism itself from the public sphere.”
Last year, confrontations broke out in Tel Aviv’s Dizengoff Square on Yom Kippur as some congregants tried to set up partitions to separate men and women, which was banned at the time by the Tel Aviv municipality and the High Court because it was a public space.