Jewish victory: court ordered Kfar Vradim to build Mikveh

The Supreme Court ordered today (Tuesday), the local council of Kfar Vradim to set up a mikveh for observant residents.

Supreme Court justices, Esther Chayut, Uzi Fetgelman and Neil Handel ordered the Galilee council of Kfar Vradim to build a mikveh for observant residents and thus thereby overturned a decision of the District Court in Haifa, which believed that the court should not interfere with the Board's decision not to build a mikveh.

In 2007, the Ministry of Religious Affairs allocated a budget to build a mikveh, but the council refused to join the financing, and building of the mikveh was delayed.

In their decision, the judges write that the decision of the local council is unreasonable, since "Proper weight to significant harm to observant women residents of the village was not given, in the absence of an available mikveh on Shabbat and Jewish holidays, and when it became clear that there is too much consideration for allocation of resources, although it was found that there is land available that would allow the establishment of a mikveh without prejudice to other public needs, and with no significant resource allocation that may be necessary on the part of the Council".

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