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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 423

Sharia courts

Shas MK Michael Malchieli reacts during a meeting of the Arrangements Committee at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 17, 2023, 7:33 pm
Bill seeks to strengthen rabbinical courts’ jurisdiction over child support
Opposition lawmakers say draft amendment compromises women’s position and is part of a slide toward theocracy
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: An amputated hand on a wooden table. (BW Studio; iStock by Getty Images)
June 10, 2022, 11:11 pm
Eight Iranian convicts are facing ‘abhorrent’ finger amputation, activists say
Rights group blasts ‘cruel and inhuman punishment’ for men convicted of robbery
By Stuart Williams
Defendants attend a trial at the Primary Court in Kabul, Afghanistan, on May 6, 2015. The sign in Dari behind the judges reads, "verdicts are based on Sharia (law), any rebellion against the verdict is rebellion against (the Prophet) Muhammad." (AP/Allauddin Khan)
August 20, 2021, 9:35 am
As Taliban return in Afghanistan, how is sharia law followed in Muslim world?
Islamist extremist group claims it won’t reimpose brutal interpretation of religious regulations; most Muslim nations incorporate parts of sharia, but few carry out its punishments
By AFP
A mask-clad Palestinian woman and a boy wait with luggage at the Rafah border crossing's departure area to travel from the Gaza Strip into Egypt, on February 9, 2021. (Said Khatib/AFP)
February 17, 2021, 9:41 pm
Hamas to review edict requiring women to get guardian’s approval for travel
Gaza-ruling Islamist terror group says Sharia court is amending the controversial decision to ‘avoid confusion’
By Agencies
Illustrative: Passengers wait for their passports to be processed so they can cross the Rafah border to the Egyptian side, in Rafah, Gaza Strip, November 24, 2020. (AP Photo/Adel Hana)
February 15, 2021, 9:50 pm
Hamas court rules women need guardian’s approval to travel
Decision prompts criticism of Gaza-ruling terror group on social media, with activist accusing it of ‘going backwards in protecting human rights’
By Agencies
Malaysian Muslim women line up to cast their ballots at a voting center for the general election in Alor Setar, state capital of Kedah, northern Malaysia, May 9, 2018. (AP Photo/Andy Wong)
August 14, 2018, 5:03 pm
Malaysian women to be caned for lesbian sex
Islamic court sentences duo to 6 cane strokes each; LGBT rights group calls punishment ‘torture’
By AFP
A person holds a copy of the Quran during a demonstration in Tunis, August 11, 2018. (AP Photo/Hassene Dridi)
August 13, 2018, 9:02 pm
Tunisian leader backs equal inheritance rights for women
President Essebsi vows to overturn existing Sharia law, which grants daughters only half the inheritance of sons
By AP
Palestinian Kholoud al-Faqih, who became the Middle East's first female sharia court judge, featured in the movie 'The Judge,' released September 11, 2017. (Screen capture: YouTube)
September 12, 2017, 8:53 am
First Palestinian woman sharia court judge stars in Toronto festival doc
Erika Cohn’s ‘The Judge’ tells story of Kholoud al-Faqih, who shattered glass ceiling of Islamic jurisprudence in Middle East
By Michel COMTE
Dr. Mahmoud Habbash, Supreme Sharia Judge in the Palestinian Authority and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas’s adviser on religious and Islamic affairs. (Courtesy)
May 28, 2017, 6:42 pm
Top Palestinian sharia judge: No Ramadan divorces while everyone’s hungry
People who ‘have not eaten and not smoked create problems’ in their marriages, make ‘ill-considered decisions,’ says leading sharia cleric
By AFP
US President Donald Trump, left, and Palestinian leader Mahmoud Abbas pose for a photograph during a joint press conference at the presidential palace in the West Bank city of Bethlehem, on May 23, 2017. (AFP/Mandel Ngan)
May 28, 2017, 2:12 pm
Trump yelled at Abbas, ‘You lied to me,’ Israeli TV reports
33 assault rifles stolen from IDF base in south; UN chief’s office slams ‘glorification of terrorism’ at Palestinian women’s center; 8 dead in Mississippi shooting rampage
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked, President Reuven Rivlin, and President of the Shariya Court of Appeals, the Qadi Abed Alhakim Samara, give a certificate to the newly appointed first female Qadi, Hana Mansour Khatib at the president's residence, on May 15, 2017. (Mark Neyman/GPO)
May 15, 2017, 10:36 pm
Israel appoints first female judge to Sharia Court
Hana Khatib of Tamra ‘shatters another glass ceiling’ by becoming the first female qadi, or religious judge, says Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked
By Melanie Lidman
Illustrative: A Jewish man covers himself with a prayer shawl while praying near the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City during the Passover priestly blessing on April 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 15, 2017, 2:14 pm
New US envoy: I went to Western Wall, prayed for Trump’s success
Five new sharia court judges, including first woman qadi, sworn in; defense minister acknowledges clash with Washington over US embassy move
By ToI Staff
Kamal Khatib from the Islamic movement is brought to arraignment at the municipal court in Jerusalem on October 4, 2009. (Matanya Tausig/Flash90)
April 27, 2017, 1:57 pm
Hardline Muslim clerics slam appointment of Israel’s first female sharia judge
Northern Branch of the Islamic Movement leader warns justice minister ‘not to intervene in matters of Islam’
By Jacob Magid
Hana Khatib, who became the first female judge in Israel's Muslim sharia court system on April 25, 2017. (Justice Ministry)
April 25, 2017, 6:31 pm
In ‘historic’ step, first female judge appointed to Israel’s sharia courts
Justice minister says she hopes Hana Khatib will be a ‘bellwether for further appointments of women’
By Dov Lieber
Jason Greenblatt, the US administration’s Special Envoy for International Negotiations, with members of the Council of Religious Institutions in the Holy Land at a gathering at the US Consulate-General in Jerusalem, March 16, 2017 (courtesy US Embassy Tel Aviv)
March 16, 2017, 9:45 pm
In ‘historic’ move, Trump envoy hosts interfaith meeting
At summit with Jason Greenblatt, Jewish, Muslim and Christian clergymen vow to advance peace and to ‘reject all incitement to violence’
By Raphael Ahren
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