Knesset panel hears former Bratslav-community members on child marriage and abuse
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Institutional event
Evidence status
Official hearing
Authority role
community religious leadership, parliamentary oversight body
Organization
Yavne’el Bratslav community
Archive classification
This is the archive's application of its published inclusion test. The cited record appears below.
The cited record identifies child marriage, community control, and religious authority as the material spiritual doctrine, practice, authority, or pretext connected to the documented harm. The relevant authority role is community religious leadership and parliamentary oversight body.
- Religious marriage or family control
Evidence structure
Proceedings
2026-02-09 · official hearing
Knesset. Testimony received; enforcement questions referred to public authorities.
Documented coercion mechanisms
- child marriage
- community control
- religious authority
Cited record
Sources
- high quality reporting official hearing report The Times of Israel, “Ex-members of Bratslav community testify about child marriages, abuse before Knesset panel” (Feb. 9, 2026).
The report records testimony before a Knesset panel concerning child marriage and abuse in a Bratslav community. The entry is an institutional-hearing record, not a criminal finding.
Source provenance
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- Source and tier basis
- https://www.timesofisrael.com/liveblog_entry/ex-members-of-bratslav-community-testify-about-child-marriages-abuse-before-knesset-panel/ Corpus classification: high-quality-reporting; evidentiary role: official-hearing-report.
- Retrieval
- 2026-07-27 · Retrieval failed
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