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By Alan A. Mazurek, MD During a special tour of Har Hazeitim (the Mount of Olives) and a reception at the Seven Arches Hotel arranged by the International Committee for Har Hazeitim (ICHH), Rabbi Yitzhak Goldknopf, Israel’s Housing and Construction Minister, announced last week a major budget allocation of NIS 115 million (nearly $30 million) […]
Play audio 1XChange playback rate from 1 to 1 Mute audio In 2020, 30,260 couples registered to get married, compared to 34,083 in the previous year. Samin said that about 10 percent of those who registered to be married did not set a date “due to the uncertainty of being able to hold a wedding in a banquet hall or garden at this time.” However, “this trend was not evident in the ultra-Orthodox sector, where people learned to live with the crisis,” he said. “According to the Central Bureau of Statistics, Israel’s population increases by 2 percent annually – 81 percent of it stems...