Amendment Due for Showdown Knesset to Decide If Israel's Womanhood Is Up to Par I not yet passed the mark of ma- jor, except as commanders of women's units, and girls may join fighting formations only as ack-ack or communications per- sonnel. Holiday Greetings BY A. TENNENBLATT Copyright 1951, Jewish Telegraphic Agency, Inc. TEL AVIV — A declaration of equality f o r Israel's women, which was shelved several times at the insistence of the religious parties although mentioned in the platform of the government when it was originally formed, is to be brought to a vote now that the former coalition re- mains in office only as a care- taker government. This is a companion measure to Premier David Ben-Gurion's amendment to the National Service Law, which would give religious girls the alternative of doing vital work of various types instead of military service, if they object to the latter on re- ligious grounds. Most controver- sial amendments to the legal status of women are those deal- ing with the family. Many Oriental Jews and Arabs resent the recent raising of the age of consent for girls from 15 to 17 and have little difficulty in evading it. But while all part- ies to such a contract face jail sentences, the marriage itself re- mains legal under the religious Law in force in this country, and the Jewish and Moslem religious authorities object even to the provision giving welfare officers power to sue for annulment if the family concerned will not. Rabbis do, however, help welfare officers persuade husbands to re- lease unwilling child-brides. Forcible separation of girls married before the law came in- to force is resorted to only in exceptional circumstances and the released child-wives are us- ually sent to Youth Aliyah in- stitutions. Many Yemenite Jew- ish and Israeli Moslem husbands dread nothing so much as that the public education law may catch up with their untutored spouses of school age. Scarcity of Women In the course of their exten- sive and costly efforts for rais- ing the level of housekeeping, and child-care in primitive im- migrant communities, even the Orthodox among the numerous women's organizations have found it necessary to protect women against their menfolk and children against their par- ents. Oriental women immi- grants often adopt revolution- ary ideas through service in the homes of the established popu- lation. The tendency of Oriental par- ents to marry their daughters off early, and in any case keep them out of harm by sending only boys to Israel ahead of the family, aggravates the already severe shortage of candidates for vital women's professions. It also tends to perpetuate the scarcity of girls of marriageable age which became acute after the European massacres, where men had a better chance of survival, and through the influx of young men during the war of inde- pendence — a factor which threatens the social equilibrium of many pioneering villages and towns. Although the local divorce rate is low, the security of many wo- men is endangered by the tend- ency of the settling authorities to register home leases and pur- chase paper in the name of the husband only. Election laws giving women lull equality in communities where they had not enjoyed it before, passed without opposi- tion, although full political rights for women in the Knes- seth Israel, the Jewish commun- ity representation in this coun- try under the mandate, was es- Passover Greetings K. SHAPIRO INC tablished 30 years ago only at the price of secession by the Agudah. 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