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Marriages in Israel can be performed under the auspices of the religious community to which couples belong. Matrimonial law is based on the Millet or confessional community system employed in the Ottoman Empire, which was not modified during the British Mandate and remains in force in the State of Israel.〔(A Free People in Our Land: Gender Equality in a Jewish State )〕 There are nine officially recognised Christian communities, and Jewish, Muslim and Druze communities. Marriages in each community are under the jurisdiction of their own religious authorities.〔 The religious authority for Jewish marriages performed in Israel is the Chief Rabbinate of Israel and the Rabbinical courts. The Israeli Interior Ministry registers marriages on presentation of proper documentation. Registration does not in itself validate a marriage, and lack of registration does not invalidate one. Israel’s religious authorities — the only entities authorized to perform weddings in Israel — are prohibited from marrying couples unless both partners share the same religion, therefore interfaith couples can be married only if one of the partners converts to the religion of the other. However, civil, interfaith and same-sex marriages entered into abroad are recognised by the state. 〔Michel Chabin 2013-06-13 (Married On The Mediterranean — But Not In Israel ) The Jewish Week. Retrieved 2015-10-01〕 However, it is illegal under ''Penal Law Amendment (Bigamy) Law'', 5719 (1959), to marry in Israel while already married. This applies to members of each confessional community, including the Jewish and Muslim.〔(The English Law of Bigamy in a Multi-Confessional Society: The Israel Experience ) by P Shifman.〕〔The 1959 law supersedes the ''Women's Equal Rights Law'' 1951〕 However, polygyny is still practiced in the Bedouin community, where about 25% of men are believed to have more than one wife.〔''Haaretz'' 27-3-08: (State program to tackle problem of polygamy in Bedouin community )〕 In 2013, the minimum marriage age in Israel was raised to 18, from a previous age of 17, for females and males.〔Times of Israel, 4 November 2013: (Israel raises minimum marriage age from 17 to 18 )〕〔Ynetnews.com, 11.4.13: (Knesset raises marriage age to 18 ).〕 Previously, the marriage age was 18 for males and 17 for females,〔Ottoman ''Law of Family Rights'' 1917 for males and ''Age of Marriage Law'' 1950 for females〕 before they were equalised at 17 years. ==History== Under the Ottoman Empire all matters of a religious nature and personal status, which included marriage, were within the jurisdiction of Muslim courts and the courts of other recognized religions, called confessional communities, under a system known as Millet. Capitulation Treaties also permitted the registration of marriages and divorces in the British, German, American and other consulates during the Ottoman period. Jewish religious matters were handled by the Hakham Bashi and the Jewish courts. Article 14 of the British Mandate of Palestine required the mandatory administration to establish a commission to study, define, and determine the rights and claims relating to the different religious communities in Palestine. Article 15 required the mandatory administration to see to it that complete freedom of conscience and the free exercise of all forms of worship were permitted. Those mandates were never enforced or put into effect. The High Commissioner established the Orthodox Rabbinate and retained a modified Millet system that recognized only eleven religious communities: Muslims, Jews and nine Christian denominations (none of which were Christian Protestant churches). All those who were not members of these recognised communities were excluded from the Millet arrangement, and "marriages" conducted in Palestine outside these communities were not recognised. Consular marriages remained customary during the British Mandate and civil divorces granted in other countries were registered and recognized by the mandatory administration. Provision was made for the registration of marriages,〔Order-in-Council: "Order of Marriage and Divorce (Registration)".〕 but not for the manner in which marriages would be conducted. It has been argued that the Ottomans and the British did not contemplate a situation in which a person who belonged to one of the recognized communities would want to be married in a non-religious ceremony within that community. It has been claimed that there was no opposition to religious marriages when the religious courts were given authority in these matters. However, no provision was made for marriages between people who were not both members of the same, recognised, community. 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Marriage in Israel」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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