Gadi Eisenkot demands haredi party Shas remove new election ad invoking IDF soldiers
Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Solberg issued on Sunday an interim order for the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Shas…
Gerrer Rebbe, anti-Zionist Satmar billionaire discuss ICJ action against Israel
One of the United Torah Judaism spiritual leaders, Gerrer Admor Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, met Joel Landau, a…
Haredi leader attacks religious Zionists for drafting to IDF, Benjamin Netanyahu condemns
Rabbi Dov Lando, spiritual leader of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Degel Hatorah faction, attacked the religious Zionist community, accusing…
Rabbis emerge as key voices warning Israelis about Iranian spy recruitment
Israeli security officials have entrusted Jewish religious leaders to help counter online recruitment efforts by Iranian agents seeking…
How Gadi Eisenkot’s snub of Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef redefines Israeli politics
Former chief rabbi and Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef offered Yashar Party head Gadi Eisenkot a political…
Netanyahu’s coalition falls to 48 seats following Knesset’s legislative blitz
The opposition bloc is expected to gain 62 seats in the next election, while the current coalition is…
Highway 4 closed in both directions due to haredi protest
Highway 4 was closed in both directions from 4 p.m. on Thursday due to a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protest…
Shas’s Deri: IDF chief Eyal Zamir ‘helping the Left’ with haredi draft stance
Leader of the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Sephardic Shas Party, Arye Deri, accused IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir…
Uproar in Knesset as legislators approve gender-segregated university programs
The Knesset voted 52-43 to approve an amendment to the Student Rights Law allowing higher education institutions to…
Knesset passes Basic Law enshrining Torah study despite IDF warnings
The Knesset’s plenum passed on Monday the contentious legislation advanced by the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties that will enshrine…