The court, announced by Israel’s chief rabbi David Lau, will help women who have lost husbands in the Gaza conflict, streamline divorce proceedings, the Jerusalem Post [reports][1.
Under Jewish religious law, there are stringent conditions for divorce, including for the husband to present a final bill of divorce, called a get. Without this document, women are left in limbo, unable to remarry. The restriction does not apply to men who have lost their wives, according to Al Jazeera.
In special circumstances, such as the death of a husband, religious courts can bypass the document and grant a divorce themselves, but they are often wary of doing so.
