The Reform movement scored up a victory, at least temporarily, in Mevaseret Zion. The small municipality just outside Jerusalem was ordered to freeze its process of forming a religious town council - an official part of every Israeli municipality - because Reform representatives demand to be included in it.
In Modiin, too, the Supreme Court issued a restraining order against allocating further funds for construction of Orthodox synagogues until the city also sets aside space and funding for a Reform Temple. The construction of a Sephardic synagogue, long-set to be built in the town\'s Shimshoni neighborhood, is now frozen, necessitating an inconvenient switching-off arrangement with the Ashkenazi community in which the two share the one existing synagogue building and a caravan. Another \"minyan\" of Yemenite Jews is also forced to pray in a caravan.
In Modiin, too, the Supreme Court issued a restraining order against allocating further funds for construction of Orthodox synagogues until the city also sets aside space and funding for a Reform Temple. The construction of a Sephardic synagogue, long-set to be built in the town\'s Shimshoni neighborhood, is now frozen, necessitating an inconvenient switching-off arrangement with the Ashkenazi community in which the two share the one existing synagogue building and a caravan. Another \"minyan\" of Yemenite Jews is also forced to pray in a caravan.