Ruh-Roh: Bibi's 'narrow coalition' may be in trouble

Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, the pre-eminent halachic (Jewish law) decisor of the Ashkenazi ultra-Orthodox community in Israel, has issued a ruling that there may be no compromise on the question of civil marriages in Israel, even for non-Jews. The practical application is that United Torah Judaism's five MK's will not go into a coalition that adopts the compromise on civil marriage that was