Because of the difference in opinion between the secular-religious about the Jewish character of the state and the status of the Jewish religion, which had been reached in 1947 an agreement between the workers' parties and religious parties Almatturah that the debt position in the State of Israel will remain on the case in which he was in the Mandate period.
The status quo agreement contains 4 items are as follows:
· Maintain arab (Kosherot) in public institutions.
· To maintain the sanctity Saturday in public places.
· To maintain the independent status of religious education.
· Give an absolute right of the rabbinical courts to consider matters of personal status (marriage and divorce).
The importance of this agreement is to reduce religious fissures in the State of Israel and to mitigate as much as possible of the existing differences between the secular-religious in the country and thus ensure political and social stability and preserving the integrity of the state of the conflict.
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The State of Israel