Daily Briefing Sept. 8: Incredible shrinking women in the Knesset; religious reforms

Political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn on National Unity disunity; religion reporter Judah Ari Gross on incentives to bury stillbirths and pressure on recalcitrant husbands

Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday.

Religion correspondent Judah Ari Gross and political correspondent Carrie Keller-Lynn join host Amanda Borschel-Dan.

The National Unity party launched with much fanfare on Monday and last night, number three on the list, former IDF chief of staff Gadi Eisenkot, gave us a peek into his thoughts on the settler movement at a first parlor event in the northern town of Metula. What did he say?

Today, Yesh Atid will launch its “Women’s List.” What is the state of female representation in the next Knesset?

The Israeli government recently implemented new regulations to incentivize religious burial societies to perform interment ceremonies for stillbirths. First of all, we hear how Jewish tradition views the situation. What’s now being done?

The Israeli Chief Rabbinate has ruled that the still-alive father of an American man who has refused to grant his wife a ritual divorce for nearly two decades will not be able to be buried in Israel, in an effort to pressure the husband into freeing his “chained” wife. We hear more.