The anarchists stepped up their protests in Bnei Brak, but some Haredim used it as a Tefillin opportunity.
“You chose to protest in front of the wrong person,” said Gafni. “You will not move me an inch from the full support for passing the legal reform.”
“The alternate prime minister doesn't trust the sitting prime minister and vice versa."
Meanwhile Rafi Peretz reportedly received an offer to jump ship and join the coalition by himself without Yamina.
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.
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This collapse comes in the wake of the world's biggest generic drugs maker attempt to dominate its market with a $40.5 billion acquisition of Allergan's generics business last year. It was a bad call.
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Deri was furious at Netanyahu's request, and told the PM, while walking out of the room: "I know what you're doing to me and I will not let you do it."
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The deadline for government's response to the high court's order is next Sunday.
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MK Gafni: Real news for the children of Israel. New law will help level playing field for poorer children.
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Transport Ministry officials threatened that "if it turns out Gafni is operating out of political considerations we will view it seriously and act accordingly."
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The daily Yated Ne'eman cited MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) who accused Katz of acting out of revenge rather than caring for the services of his ministry.
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Some of the funds are designated for encouraging entrepreneurship among new immigrants from France, Belgium, and Ukraine.
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It should be noted that those Haredi schools that rejected the government-imposed of a Core Curriculum did so not necessarily because they object to teaching their students many of the subjects on the list.
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"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"
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The committee also succeeded in repelling the Israeli tax authority, which wanted initially to be able to use information gathered by Israeli banks for the IRS.
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Finance Committee Chairman Gafni (UTJ) said "with all due respect to the Finance Ministry and talks of reform, in practice the prices have not gone down."
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Last week, a Knesset committee debated a bill proposed by two ultra-Orthodox coalition partners determining that use of public mikvahs will be conducted strictly according to halakha.
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Using the US' enormous economic clout, FATCA bullies the world's financial institutions into reporting on their American clients to Uncle Sam.
The officer of a Hareidi IDF unit was in Mea Shearim to visit two of his soldiers whose families have social or financial problems.
Netanyahu said he wants to have a government formed within the next 2 to 3 weeks.
Gafni's position: The Left would give the Chareidim more money, but the Right allows more Judaism in the public schools.
By David Morris
The image of Naama Margalit became a symbol, overnight, of the struggle for peaceful neighborly relations in Beit Shemesh.
Remember Hamas missiles on Israeli cities? Remember last year’s bloated deficit? Haredi MKs don’t. Everything was great, they say, until Lapid’s universal draft, which turned Syria against Israel.
If Yesh Atid party leader Yair Lapid has any hopes of gaining one or even two Haredim as his fans, his deputy Finance Minister blew it “on air” when he called Haredim “parasites” on a Haredi radio program.
By JTA
The head of the Reform movement in Israel was ejected from a discussion on state funding for non-Orthodox rabbis Tuesday. Gilad Kariv, a Reform rabbi and director of the Israel Movement for Progressive Judaism, was thrown out of Tuesday's debate in the Knesset Finance Committee for speaking out of turn and using aggressive language. Kariv […]