What religious services are provided to prisoners?

The IPS enables all prisoners to maintain their religion within the framework of security and organizational limitations that exist at the prisons and through the chief rabbinate of the IPS.


Religious services for Jewish prisoners:

Maintaining seminars, religious evenings and visitations to the holy places, individual treatment and counseling for the prisoner on the matters of family and conjugation, holding rituals, supplying religious material, ritual articles, responsibility for operating and maintaining the synagogues at the units, organizing and holding holiday customs, assisting in the rehabilitation of the prisoner in various programs and measures inside the prison and outside of it toward his release.


Religious services for Muslim prisoners:

Maintaining a connection with the Muslim courts for marriage registration and divorce claims, upholding regular prayers, serving warm and larger meals at the end of the Ramadan fast, enabling exiting for family funerals and upholding the mourning customs, supplying religious books and ritual articles.


Religious services for Christian prisoners:

Maintaining a connection with the priests and the representatives of the church for spiritual support, supplying religious books at the prisoner's request, handling family funerals and mourning customs.