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"I believe that it is a matter of months before divorce papers can be filed from home," Rabbi Eliahu Ben Dahan, director of Israel's religious court system, told the Israeli daily Yediot Achronot. Dahan said those seeking a divorce would also be able to use credit cards to electronically pay the fee for opening a divorce file.

Accompanying the latest innovations at the Chief Rabbinate was the release of a report providing updated statistics about Israeli divorce rates.

According to the report, the city of Tel Aviv maintained its lead with the most number of divorces in 1997 — 2,584 couples split up there last year, out of a total of 8,092 divorces nationally.