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The delay comes amid a tense race for the 10-year positions, and reports of back-room wheeling and dealing by Shas Party chairman Aryeh Deri to pave the way for his brother to receive the Sephardic Chief Rabbi position.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Contradicting the Supreme Court, Avichai Mandelblit says the plea deal struck by Shas Party leader Aryeh Deri last year “unequivocally” did not include a commitment to permanently leave politics.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“Deri Law No. 2,” as it’s been coined, will go before the Knesset next week.
Shas Knesset member Haim Biton will replace Aryeh Deri as Interior Minister, while Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli will take the Health portfolio.
"The Supreme Court decided... that I have an obligation to remove you from your position as Minister... This unfortunate decision ignores the will of the people..."
Two bills were recently submitted to the Knesset that would strip the citizenship of anyone receiving a terror stipend from the Palestinian Authority.
Netanyahu now has preliminary agreements with all of the parties in his right-wing coalition.
Dafna Liel is reporting a significant breakthrough in the coalition negotiations between Likud, Religious Zionism and Shas.
Deri resigned his seat in the Knesset last week as part of a plea bargain reached in his trial over tax-related crimes.
The students will be absorbed in labs at all Israeli universities, including those researching coronavirus.
Meanwhile Rafi Peretz reportedly received an offer to jump ship and join the coalition by himself without Yamina.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The new restriction will affect those who have traveled within the last two weeks to Thailand, Macau, Hong Kong and Singapore.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Right-wing religious parties signed a pledge of allegiance to PM Netanyahu.
Ron Kobi was accused of provoking and instigating against religious Jews. He was fired for failing to pass a budget.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Deri threatened to ban Jordanian workers from Israel if Jordan didn't end their ban against religious Jews.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Hamas’ HQ for its terror operations in Judea and Samaria and their financing operation works out of Turkey.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
According to the information presented to Minister Deri, the rioters' departure from the country could pose a risk to state security.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
The party is not obligated to appoint any female candidate to its electoral list, but the door is opened to the possibility.
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
Court: "What [the terrorist] did, though severe, is not unusual or extreme."
Four leading candidates for Jerusalem mayor rejected a demand Monday by Health Minister Yaakov Litzman to close the city’s Shuk Mahane Yehuda open air market at night.
Government ministers are unhappy with the plan -- many because they were kept in the dark about it.
An Interior Ministry committee believes combining four Shomron communities together makes sense economically.
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
'We are obligated to finance a wide range of recreational activities and to provide an allowance to those staying there. Is this where the taxpayer's hard-earned money should be spent?'
By JNi.Media
Lowering the threshold would thus could give the rightwing block as many as 70 seats in the next Knesset—it now hovers around 65, and clip one or two Arab seats that would travel back to the Zionist leftwing parties.
By JNi.Media
The report includes interviews with eight Arab families, "victims" of Israel's aggressive policy, the most glaring of which is with Abed Dawiat, who committed the official first act of terror of the lone-wolf intifada.
By JNi.Media
The Joint Arab List would retain its power with 13 seats, followed by Habayit Hayehudi which would rise from 8 to 12 seats.
By JNi.Media
The deadline for government's response to the high court's order is next Sunday.
The cabinet passed a series of concessions to appease Trump, including converting land in Area C to Area A.
Rabbi Avraham Yosef was convicted of violating the public trust for allegedly using his position as chief rabbi of Holon to further the interests of a family-run kosher certification organization.
By JNi.Media
Haredi coalition partners demand broader interior ministry authority over Shabbat laws.
By JNi.Media
Minister Israel Katz's proposal to transfer casualties from Idlib to hospitals in is opposed by the defense establishment, because it would requires cooperation with Turkey.
Every Israeli receiving or renewing their ID or passport will be required to replace them with a smart biometric document.
Kfar Chabad now has a street named after the Rebbe.
By JNi.Media
'I stand here today to repeat in the clearest way: the State of Israel is deeply committed to ensure the religious rights of all faith communities in Jerusalem and throughout Israel.'
By JNi.Media
Interestingly, several Muslim and European countries have enacted laws compelling their mosques to "muffle" their loudspeakers, including Saudi Arabia and Indonesia.
By JNi.Media
Although it does not spell it out, the rules for the award most likely do not allow for the recipients to be under police investigation.
The ban will hold for at least one month and may be extended to as long as six months.
Netanyahu's nominee for media adviser wrote last year that Rav Ovadia "damaged the country and the people he tried to help."
Aryeh Deri, chairman of the Shas Sephardi Hareidi party, will leave the Ministry of Economy and be given another Cabinet post following the failure of the Netanyahu government to convince him to relinquish authority over the roadmap for governing Israel's off-shore natural gas fields. Deri will continue to serve as Minister of the Development of […]
A court order overruling Deri's "stop work" decision allows Israel Railways to continue maintenance and construction work on Shabbat.
Shas Minister Aryeh Deri ordered a halt to working on Shabbat on the Tel Aviv-Jerusalem train line and Israel Railways claims it will delay it for 2 years.
By JNi.Media
Weinstein decided there will be soccer league games in Israel this Shabbat, despite a ruling by Labor Court Judge Ariela Glitzr Katz to the contrary.
The Knesset approved part of the natural gas framework Monday by a 59-51 vote after two years of constant threats by natural gas companies to pull out of the development of off-shore energy fields. However, Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu postponed a vote on the critical part of the deal that gives the government full authority […]
By Rachel Levy
Israel's government is gambling with a Knesset vote in hopes of finding a way past the latest obstacle in the gas deal drama.
By JNi.Media
Deri threatened that should the issue of zero VAT on essential products not be resolved by the following voting round, his party, Shas, would oppose the budget.
Minister warns Left that hate will keep it in the opposition.
Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein told PM Netanyahu that he would find it difficult to defend the ministerial appointments of Aryeh Deri and Yoav Galant.
By Shalom Bear
Shas got a good deal. What Bayit Yehudi does with their offer remains to be seen.
"High noon" is 8 p.m. Wednesday. New elections, anyone?
The officer of a Hareidi IDF unit was in Mea Shearim to visit two of his soldiers whose families have social or financial problems.
Bennett drew his red line on Twitter, but don’t worry. There is a Jewish solution.
With nearly a dozen viable parties, the president choosing the one who pulls together the pieces, Israeli elections are complicated.
The Shas chairman, the smartest politician in town, knows a coalition in the hand is better than one in the bush.
As the infamous quote says, "We established what you are, now we're just haggling over the price."
Voters apparently like the Likud’s more centrist list of candidates. Lieberman hurt by bribe scandal. Shas survives.
Shas's Council of Sages have given their response to Aryeh Deri's letter of resignation...
No one knows who leaked the video of Rav Ovadia, but it's a bombshell, and there might be more on the way.
And that puts pressure on Aryeh Deri...
Moshe Kahlon courts Michael Oren but rejects Rami Levi. Shas and Jewish Home divorces not yet final.
Deri is getting rid of Yishai, and Uri Ariel is making noise about dividing the Jewish Home Party.
Unlike normal MKs who receive death threats for their connection to the Temple Mount, Eli Yishai was threatened to be stabbed if he left the Shas party.
All of the rats are leaving the sinking ship.
The Shas political party, founded and run by the late Rav Ovadia Yosef, has a appointed a new spiritual leader, according to a Galei Tzahal report. The rabbi chosen to replace Harav Ovadia and be the new president of the party's Council of Torah Sages is Rabbi Shalom Cohen. Aryeh Deri is the political leader […]
By Shalom Bear
Resistance to integrating Haredim into the coalition came from an unexpected source.
Haredi political leaders across the board called a court ruling for new elections in Beit Shemesh” corrupt,” “racist” and a sign of “dictatorship,” among other less than complimentary adjectives. The court accepted a petition by Attorney General Yehudah Weinstein that documented corruption in the voting October 22 as ground for voiding the election results, which […]
The Jewish Home party won its day in court on Thursday with an administration court ruling that the October 22 elections for the Beit Shemesh mayor and city council are invalid because of suspected fraud. The court ordered a new vote. Jewish Home mayoral candidate lost the election by 956 votes to Shas party incumbent […]
Deri is actively trying to rehabilitate his image among the Settlers and National-Religious crowd.
The Shas Haredi party can’t see past its black hat. Most of 91 Yesha towns now on the national priority list are near dangerous borders. Beitar Illit is not. Obviously, that’s discrimination, says Shas.
There are Haredim and there are Haredim. Some fight for IDF. Others fight against the state and, as on Tuesday, attack Haredi soldiers. Police rescued him and patrolled the streets of Mea Shearim.
MK Eli Yishai, the former head of the Shas party has decided he will not be running for mayor of Jerusalem, according to a report in the Israeli, Chareidi La'Daat website. Yishai was the political head of the Shas party until Shas's spiritual leader, Rav Ovadia Yosef, kicked him out and replaced him with Aryeh […]
On Saturday Night, Rav Ovadiah Yosef, the spiritual head of the Shas party said that he had to return political control of the Shas party back to Aryeh Deri, as it was promised to be returned to him (Deri) when he was sent to prison. Eli Yishai, the successful, but now displaced Shas party head, […]
Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef has given his blessing for the charismatic Aryeh Deri to return to his former position as head of the Shas political party at the expense of Knesset Member Eli Yishai. Since the return of Deri to the Knesset after the end of his seven-year banishment as a result of […]
Reports are indicating that Aryeh Deri will return as the head of the Shas party, while Eli Yishai will receive the senior government position, assuming the party joins the next government. The reports say that both sides have, for the most part, agreed to the terms and assuming no major changes will sign on them […]
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's Tuesday's announcement of early elections has given new life, among other things, to speculations about former Shas leader Aryeh Deri's return to the top. But Deri associates on Wednesday denied the rumors.
Kikar Shabbat is reporting that Aryeh Deri, the former head of the Shas party will be returning to Shas. A contract is being drawn up stating that both Eli Yishai (the current head of Shas), and Aryeh Deri will agree to work together. Rav Ovadiah Yosef will determine who will gets to be the party […]
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