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Jerusalem (JTA) — A pro-
posal by one of Israel's best-
known rabbis to permit civil
marriage has drawn .a
predictable flurry of
criticism from most repre-
sentatives of the Orthodox
and haredi, or fervently Or-
thodox, establishments.
Rabbi Shear Yashuv
Cohen, Ashkenazic chief
rabbi of Haifa and a likely
candidate in the national
Chief Rabbinate election
next year, suggested the
idea in an interview with
Amudim, the periodical of
the Religious Kibbutz
Movement.
He confirmed it during a
radio interview by phone
from Prague this week, in
which he stressed that civil
marriage is wrong according
to Halachah, or Jewish law.
But instituting it for those
who wish it might help to
prevent worse halachic
tragedies, resulting from
couples' failure to dissolve
their halachic marriages by
halachic divorce.
Rabbi Cohen made it clear
he was raising the idea for
further discussion by the
Chief Rabbinate Council,
the "cabinet" of rabbis that
functions as an advisory
body for the two chief rabbis.
Israeli law provides for
only religious marriage in
Israel: Jewish marriage (ex-
clusively by Orthodox
rabbis) for Jews; Muslim for
Muslims and Christian for
Christians. The issue is a
constant cause of controver-
sy in the Orthodox-secular
debate that runs through
Israeli society.
The two chief rabbis of
Israel, Mordechai Eliahu
and Avraham Shapira,
quickly distanced them-
selves from Rabbi Cohen's
proposal, while Knesset
member Avraham Ravitz, of
the United Torah Party
termed it "shocking."
The proposal was also
strongly opposed by Rabbi
Cohen's Sephardic colleague
in Haifa, Rabbi Eliahu
Bakshi-Doron (who is likely
to be a candidate for Sephar-
dic chief rabbi of Israel in
next year's election) and by
the Secretary of the Chief
Rabbinate, Rabbi Eitan
Eiseman, who said the 10-
man Chief Rabbinate Coun-
cil had never considered it.
Israel Boosts
Lebanon Forces
Tel Aviv (JTA) — Israel has
beefed up its forces inside
southern Lebanon in re-
sponse to an apparent
change of strategy on the
part of the Iranian-backed
Hezbollah, which has begun
firing heavy-caliber
Katyusha rockets at set-
tlements in northern Israel.
Tanks and heavy equip-
ment moved northward as
heightened violence along
the Lebanon border marred
continued peace negotia-
tions in Washington.
News reports said fierce
artillery duels escalated
when Lebanese army bat-
teries joined pro-Iranian ter-
rorists in shelling Israeli
positions in the security
zone.
About 50 missiles fell in
two days, half in Israel and
the remainder in the seciu-i-
ty zone. They caused no in-
juries and only minor
damage.
Israelis spent a second
night in shelters and anti-
blast rooms along a wide
area in the north, from
Nahariya on the coast to
Kiryat Shmona.
The overt movement nor-
thward of Israeli forces was
clearly designed to add
weight to warnings by
Jerusalem that Hezbollah
attacks would be met by a
strong response.
Deputy Defense Minister
Mordechai Gui- appeared on
Israeli television to tell Hez-
bollah guerrillas and the
Beirut government "that the
Israeli army is far more
powerful than they are."
Israeli officials say it is up
to Lebanon and Syria to curb
the Hezbollah. The futida-
mentalist terror group
receives funds and arms
supplied by Iran through
Syrian-controlled territory.
Jerusalem cannot allow
the situation to degenerate
into a war of attrition
against northern residents,
who have shown a degree of
fortitude in the current.
round of Katyusha bom-
bardment.