According to an Israel Radio report on Thursday, Norway’s military has decided to permit one to wear a yarmulke as well as other religious headdress in line with the decision in January 2012 of the special government committee addressing religious article in the police department.

In March 2010 the government committee was asked to weigh the issue of religious head dress in the police department. The decision was announced in January, permitting Jews, Muslims and others to be in uniform while wearing their respective religious head dress.

Now, about eight months later, the nation’s military follows with the same decision, one that is contrary to the parliament’s line of seeking to distance religion and state.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)