Families living in a wide swathe of Israel’s southern flank – from the Dead Sea to Nahariya – have been affected by over 1,700 interconnected wildfires that have been raging for almost a month.
But now they have an additional problem. They may no longer be legally married.
The Rabbi of Zichron Yaakov, Mordechai Abramovsky, in an interview with Charedi website Kikar Shabbat, said that in cases where a married couple’s ketubah had been destroyed they should no longer live together as man and wife.
In Haifa alone, 1,600 people have had their homes destroyed by fire in November. No figures are available on the percentage of couples that had managed to rescue their ketubah from the destruction of their homes.
