Editing Burqa (section)

====Israel====
{{See also|Haredi burqa sect}}
[[File:Shalim.JPG|thumb|right|140px|A member of the [[Haredi burqa sect]] in [[Meah Shearim|Meah Shearim, Israel]]]]
A group of [[Haredi Judaism|Haredi]] (ultra-[[Orthodox Judaism|Orthodox]]) Jewish women in [[Israel]] began to don the Burqa as a symbol of piety.<ref name=npr>{{cite web|url = https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88381958|title = A Jewish Movement to Shroud the Female Form|work = NPR|date = March 17, 2008|access-date = February 27, 2019|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20180729013013/https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=88381958|archive-date = July 29, 2018|url-status = live|df = mdy-all}}</ref> Following its adoption by Bruria Keren, an Israeli religious leader who taught a strict interpretation of [[Hebrew Bible|Jewish scripture]] to female adherents, an estimated 600 Jewish women started to wear the veil.<ref>{{cite news|last=Shaviv|first=Miriam|title=Should Israel Ban the Burka?|url=http://www.thejc.com/blogpost/should-israel-ban-burka|access-date=25 January 2011|newspaper=The Jewish Chronicle|date=28 April 2010|archive-date=1 August 2010|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100801031927/http://thejc.com/blogpost/should-israel-ban-burka|url-status=live}}</ref> Keren claimed to have adopted wearing the burqa to "save men from themselves. A man who sees a woman's body parts is sexually aroused, and this might cause him to commit sin. Even if he doesn't actually sin physically, his impure thoughts are sin in themselves".<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Controversy-in-Israel-over-burqa-wearing-ultra-Orthodox-Jews-20726.html|title=Controversy in Israel over burqa-wearing ultra-Orthodox Jews|publisher=Asia News|date=2 September 2011|access-date=15 December 2011|archive-date=12 June 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180612145552/http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Controversy-in-Israel-over-burqa-wearing-ultra-Orthodox-Jews-20726.html|url-status=live}}</ref> However, a rabbinical authority said "There is a real danger that by exaggerating, you are doing the opposite of what is intended [resulting in] severe transgressions in sexual matters", and issued an edict declaring burqa-wearing a sexual fetish, and as promiscuous as wearing too little.<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7919501/Israeli-rabbis-clamp-down-on-burka.html|location=London|work=The Daily Telegraph|first=Adrian|last=Blomfield|title=Israeli rabbis clamp down on burka|date=30 July 2010|access-date=5 April 2018|archive-date=18 November 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20181118131819/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/israel/7919501/Israeli-rabbis-clamp-down-on-burka.html|url-status=live}}</ref>

According to ''[[The Jerusalem Post]]'', in 2010, [[Marina Solodkin]], a member of the [[Knesset]], intended to put forward a bill to "prohibit the wearing of a full-body and face covering for women. [The] bill would not differentiate between Muslims and Jews".<ref>The Jerusalem Post. 26 April 2010. [http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=174003] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100811142424/http://www.jpost.com/ArtsAndCulture/Entertainment/Article.aspx?id=174003|date=11 August 2010}}. Retrieved 16 February 2011.</ref>