28.01.2012                      04.Schwat. 5772                      Bo

Erfolg der Orthodoxen:

The Makings of History / Pork and the people

Before the religious parties took aim at the industry, pigpens could be found nearly everywhere in Israel.

In the summer of 1962, the Knesset passed a law banning the raising of swine in the State of Israel, with the exception of nine locales in the Galilee. The Pig-Raising Prohibition Law was a landmark in the history of the fight for democracy and freedom of religion in Israel. It was considered to be a victory of the National Religious Party, whose newspaper, Hatzofeh, asserted that the law strengthened the standing of Israel as the state of the Jewish people.
An article in the quarterly Cathedra: Journal for Holy Land Studies, published by Yad Ben-Zvi, points out the considerable similarities between the attempts to prevent the passage of the law and current efforts to prevent the passage of legislation that will further damage Israel's image as a liberal state….