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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Residents told Channel 14 they did not know of any plot by right-wingers to seize control of the communities.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Over 120 women, aged 26-50, join the army in program opened for those who previously sought exemption from service.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Secular protesters last year forcefully prevented traditional Jews from holding an outdoor Yom Kippur service.
The event saw 31 Haredi men, graduates of the “Avneit” unit, complete their rigorous training and officially join the ranks of the Border Police, a paramilitary unit within the Israel Police that focuses on border security, counterterrorism, and maintaining internal security.
Arbel was speaking one day after Defense Minister Yoav Gallant told lawmakers he would begin drafting yeshiva students next month.
By JNS & JewishPress.com News Desk
“Some will say that since Abraham our forefather, who was blessed with Isaac our forefather at the age of 100, there has not been such a historic birth.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The decision came after anarchist protesters forcefully prevented Rosh Yehudi, an outreach group, from holding a public Yom Kippur service.
The rabbi of the Western Wall released a statement expressing shock at the woman's actions.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Shas also distanced itself from the proposal, saying it never intended to criminalize improper attire or musical instruments at the holy site.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Technology usage is up, along with a rapid increase in technological training, which may impact wages among haredim in the future.
This legislation has no special connection to the LGBT, just as it has no special connection to Islam, or to skin color.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Until now, the defense minister and chief of IDF staff have chosen the leader of the Military Rabbinate.
Bibi Netanyahu may be planning to push Bezalel Smotrich to the background, if he plans on including them at all.
Nadav intends to continue setting aside time for Torah every single day, despite the demanding upcoming military service.
In March of 2018, Rabbi Cherlow ruled that a genetically cloned pig or any other animal would be Kosher.
Bennett stressed repeatedly that social divides within Israel and the Jewish people were more dangerous to the country’s future than even external security threats.
"Volunteers have come from all over the country and are active around the clock to provide emergency medical care in Meron."
The initiative was launched after a tumultuous summer of violence last year.
By Hanan Greenwood / Israel Hayom
“We call on the religious services minister to not heed the uninfluential rabbis, to wake up,” says Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef.
Through efforts of Yad La’isha Legal Aid Center, court imposes rare housing sanctions on recalcitrant husband.
For 135 days R remained in jail and refused to release Orly, conditioning her freedom on impossible financial demands.
“This award goes to those who dreamed that this project could succeed."
"Knowing that so many others were doing it with me created a sense of excitement and encouraged me to continue until the finish line.”
The organizers are ushering in a “sense of normalcy and joy” in bringing back holiday programming to communities all across Israel.
“The New Jew” helps Israeli viewers explore the fundamental differences between Judaism in Israel versus Jewishness in the US.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The latest polls show Bennett barely getting into the Knesset if elections were held.
If the person requesting help is female, it would be more halachically correct that she be treated by another female than by a male.
Mazal Tov and, well, Refuah Shleima.
The Religious Services Minister will appoint a woman rabbinical court advocate.
“After the third shock was administered, the man began to resist compressions, a sign that he was coming back to life.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
In Jerusalem’s Old City, prominent religious-Zionist rabbis pray the incoming government won’t “abandon the Land of Israel to the Arab takeover.”
"The study's findings indicate a trend of significant change in the Haredi society's attitude toward sexual abuse."
The bill doesn't create a coalition, but does give legitimacy and a mandate to the winner that might convince the nay-sayers to join the coalition of the winner.
Matan Peleg, CEO of Im Tirtzu that initiated the move, said that the letter was a wake-up call to the heads of the Zionist parties.
MK Mai Golan wrote that the court ruling means that “an illegal infiltrator can undergo a reform conversion in 10 minutes and receive Israeli citizenship.”
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
The ruling will significant challenges for religious Jews and the hospitals.
The higher the share of elderly persons in the municipality, the lower its infection rate in the second wave.
"These extremists are preventing other people who wish to get tested from doing so."
If 80 percent of Israeli citizens were to wear masks, we would beat Corona in just six weeks.
Six ambulances, two MICUs, a command vehicle and other designated emergency vehicles will be deployed in the field.
By HaKol HaYehudi / Yehuda Pearl
One of the evicted residents was a pregnant woman in her ninth month. Honenu recorded police grabbing her infant girl.
Ron Kobi was accused of provoking and instigating against religious Jews. He was fired for failing to pass a budget.
The new promises of new construction for the Jews of Hebron offered by Defense Minister Naftali Bennett.
“There is nothing more Jewish than pointed disagreement. And there is nothing more democratic than pointed disagreement. It is possible, important and perhaps even crucial to discuss and to insist on a culture of disagreement."
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Religious parties in the coalition refused to back the legislation called the Hareidi Draft Law.
After having no success in reaching a compromise with the ultra-Orthodox parties, an additional 45 days were granted for the measure by the High Court.
3,070 Ultra-Orthodox (Haredi) Israelis enlisted in the IDF in 2017
By JNi.Media
Shaked is a ball of contradictions, which gives her power and makes her uniquely pan-Israeli.
By JNi.Media
A representative of the city's legal adviser objected to the move, arguing that it could not be sneaked under the guise of accessibility.
By JNi.Media
The reported cost of each luxury 1,335 sq. ft., 5-room apartment, will be only one million shekel – $276,000.
Likud Culture Minister Miri Regev said, however, that Katz made the right decision.
By JNi.Media
"Imagine taking a chunk of rotting corpse from a stagnant sewer, placing it in a blender and spraying the filthy liquid in your face."
Litzman: We have no interest in going to elections, but we can’t compromise on such a substantial and fundamental issue.
Deri said it is a Jewish and social value to allow workers to rest on Shabbat.
By JNi.Media
Apart from the phone harassment, Rabbi Eliyahu and his family are also exposed to threats on the Internet, including shocking wishes and slander.
By JNi.Media
The newspaper reportedly required a payment of $260 plus VAT for every lost subscriber resulting from the LGBT ad.
By JNi.Media
Not surprisingly, a full 84% of the Arab public thinks there was no need to legislate the Nationality Law.
By JNi.Media
Attorney Ben-Gvir wrote the AG: "It is clear to any knowledgeable person that the government's decision was a political ploy designed to silence the opposition."
By JNi.Media
Regev's new move will affect swimming, judo and other sports associations that hold their Israeli championships on Shabbat.
By JNi.Media
In case the Temple is rebuilt, consider this [Tisha B’Av] document null and void.
By JNi.Media
Captain Rabbi Avrumi Levin: In case the Temple is rebuilt, consider this [Tisha B'Av] document null and void.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
PM Netanyahu leveled criticism at Culture Minister Miri Regev, Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked for refusing to support expansion of an egalitarian prayer space at the holy site, said “I'll handle this” • Dozens of rabbis urge ministers to oppose “desecration” of Kotel.
The new bill pushes off economic sanctions against Haredi yeshivot that fail to meet their quotas.
By JNi.Media
According to the IDF, no unusual injuries were observed during the training, and no medical abnormalities were identified.
By JNi.Media
The cook lit a fire on Shabbat and cooked a packet of chickpeas for a vegetarian soldier. An officer who noticed this reported the incident to the battalion commander and the cook was court martialed.
By JNi.Media
Netanyahu told the three Haredi coalition leaders at the meeting, who insist they oppose the draft law in its present form: "I do not want new elections, but I'm not afraid of elections, and if there are elections, I'll do fine."
By JNi.Media
Judge Vardi suggested that the Tel Aviv municipality cancel its decision to forbid the separate-sexes event, and interrupted the hearing to allow the municipality to consult on the matter.
By JNi.Media
The Chasid, who has been running the stall near the Jerusalem Central Bus Station for the past four years, was asked by a municipal inspector to fold up his stand and walk away, and when he refused, he received the fine.
By JNi.Media
According to the plan, which is being formulated in collaboration between the IDF HR division and the Golani Brigade, the special Haredi company will be added to the ranks of the brigade come March 2019.
By JNi.Media
One major target for this project are Chabad activities, which include summer camps for children in municipalities that cannot afford one.
By JNi.Media
Eventually, the IPS will purchase and issue suits and hats to prisoners who have received permission to wear them.
By JNi.Media
Institutions and businesses involved in state security, public health, electricity supply and the hospitality industry will be exempted.
By JNi.Media
The petition against the IDF was filed last year by Stanislav Yurovsky, an IDF officer, through the Association for Civil Rights in Israel.
By JNi.Media
"You will be surprised to hear who is the greatest proponent of the Torah in the world: the Zionist regime. Every year the Israeli government invests billions of shekels in the Torah world."
By JNi.Media
Only about 15-17% of Haredim ages 18-44 celebrate Independence Day in a festive manner.
Rami Levy Tikshoret will be the first cellphone company to take that step.
By JNi.Media
Voter turnout was particularly low at the computerized 130 polling stations throughout the country.
By JNi.Media
Activists chanted, "The Knesset Legislates, the Supreme Court Erases."
By JNi.Media
Adina Bar-Shalom attacks Shas chairman Aryeh Deri: "He has changed since he entered prison, completely deteriorated."
By JNi.Media
If the Gerrer Rebbe sticks to his guns about running the full vote on the bill to end before ever tending to the budget bill, it would effectively spell the end of Netanyahu's coalition government.
By JNi.Media
The Yesh Atid leader was quick to take advantage of the coalition crisis and arrived with signs and activists at the Tel Aviv train station, where became apparent that one of them, who looked spot-on Haredi, wasn't.
By JNi.Media
WAFA reports: Hundreds of fanatic Jewish settlers walked around the old town of Hebron, where they are concentrated, banging drums and shouting anti-Palestinian slogans.
By JNi.Media
The soldiers were found to be suitable for the course and have been approached by their commanders to become tank commanders, but gave up the opportunity for fear of degrading their religious standards.
By JNi.Media
"This basic law seeks to anchor the right of those who wish to dedicate themselves to a meaningful period of Torah study to the removal of other obligations ... such as security service and voluntary national service.
Local supporters say the measure is necessary because Arab political and religious officials refuse to listen to concerns about being woken up at pre-dawn hours.
By JNi.Media
"Public transportation can be operated on Shabbat with non-Jewish drivers."
By JNi.Media
It should be noted that Bennett has already been elected chairman until 2020, so he has nothing to worry about regarding his position.
By JNi.Media
Unhindered by things like irony, Liberman, a government minister who was there to support breaking a state Shabbat law, said the rabbis are civil servants, who must represent the positions of the state and not be against the state.
By JNi.Media
Shas, which initiated the Supermarket Law, is not benefiting from it for the time being, and is expected to win only 4 seats (down from 7) – barely passing the threshold, if that.
By JNi.Media
MK Yulia Malinovsky, whose coalition party Yisrael Beiteinu broke rank and voted against the bill, asked the Likud members from the podium Monday night when did they become a Haredi party.
By JNi.Media
Today a Jew who goes up to the mountain feels that he is welcome."
“This will allow us to positively contribute to helping these couples build healthy new relationships and families in accordance with Halacha and the laws of the State of Israel."
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Deputy Knesset Speaker MK Yisrael Eichler (United Torah Judaism) compared the women's committee's visit to Beit Shemesh to a visit by supporters of Rabbi Meir Kahane to Umm al-Fahm.
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The kibbutz, which on the eve of Passover, 2008, suffered the worst bombardment by mortar shells since the Israeli disengagement from Gaza (they insisted on celebrating the seder at the kibbutz dining hall), is expecting that "turning into a mixed kibbutz will facilitate growth and development."
By JNi.Media
A DNA testing done in 2003 and 2004 of several hundred men of this group showed no evidence of Middle Eastern ancestry.
The introduction of women into combat units has created problems for religious soldiers.
Up to the last minute, it wasn't clear the bill had a chance of passing in the Knesset.
By JNi.Media
The Arab sector was almost evenly divided on the subject, with a slight advantage for those who believed that Israel should take into account the positions of American Jews: 48% were in favor of such consideration and 46% opposed it.
Minister Aryeh Deri said, "We want to prevent a change to the status quote, to prevent the Shabbat from turning into a national shopping day."
By JNi.Media
"These works are carried out in the open and cause severe harm to the Jewish character of the State and severely hurt the feelings of millions of religious and traditional citizens in the State of Israel."
July 17, 2026 
