The number of couples registering with the rabbinate to marry increased 22% in 2021 in response to the rolling back of coronavirus restrictions on large gatherings.
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According to data from the Religious Services Ministry, 36,915 couples were married in 2021 compared to 30,620 in 2020.
Tel Aviv leads the packs with 2,578 marriages, followed by Jerusalem with 2,022. The southern city of Ashdod came in third on the list with 1,377 couples, followed by the Hof Hasharon Regional Council with 1,138 couples, Holon with 1,071, and Netanya with 1,012. Among those who married in 2021, 2,490 were married through the modern Orthodox Tzohar organization.
Along with the rolling back of coronavirus restrictions, religious councils across the country said the shift to online services seen during the pandemic played a role in the change, as did the move to increase locations where couples could register, which they said increased competition.
Eldad Mizrachi, who heads the Tel Aviv Religious Council, said, "The data points to an increase in marriage registration across all religious councils, something that indicates an improvement in the quality of service couples who come to register for marriage receive. It is not for nothing that the marriage registration bureaus received the high ranking from the Government Information and Communications Technology Authority, at the frontal service quality level."
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