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Moshe Gafni

Haredim & Hassidim / Government / Left vs. Right

Moshe Gafni Rejects President’s One-Sided Plan; Cosplay Protests Escalate in Bnei Brak

By Pesach Benson / TPS

The anarchists stepped up their protests in Bnei Brak, but some Haredim used it as a Tefillin opportunity.

Government / Left vs. Right

UTJ Leader Gafni Hits Back at Anti-Government Protestors

By TPS / Tazpit News Agency

“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.”

Politics / Government / The Knesset

Knesset Passes Law Making Sure Bennett Hands Keys Over to Lapid

By Jewish Press News Desk

“The alternate prime minister doesn't trust the sitting prime minister and vice versa."

Israel / Politics / Elections

Chareidi Parties Demand Netanyahu Include Yamina in the Coalition

By Jewish Press News Desk

Meanwhile Rafi Peretz reportedly received an offer to jump ship and join the coalition by himself without Yamina.

Headline / Politics / Elections / Jerusalem

With Machane Yehuda in the Spotlight, Are Political Winds Changing Direction in Jerusalem?

By Andrew Friedman / TPS

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.

Headline / Israel / US / Global / Business and Economy / Health and Medicine

Having Lost 1/3 of Its Value in 2 Days Teva Drags Down Tel Aviv Exchange, Layoffs to Follow

By JNi.Media

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.

Headline / Haredim & Hassidim / US / Government / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion / Assimilation

Coalition Emergency Meeting on Conversion Blown Up by Haredim

By JNi.Media

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."

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Finance Committee Approves Long Term Savings for Every Child Retroactive to Jan. 2015

By JNi.Media

MK Gafni: Real news for the children of Israel. New law will help level playing field for poorer children.

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset

Haredi MK Blocks Train Funding over Shabbat Works

By JNi.Media

Transport Ministry officials threatened that "if it turns out Gafni is operating out of political considerations we will view it seriously and act accordingly."

Politics / Police and Crime / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel

Massive Traffic Jams Collateral Damage of Internal War in Likud

By JNi.Media

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.

Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Aliyah / Geulah

Knesset Committee Approves $80 Million to Support New Immigrants

By JNi.Media

Some of the funds are designated for encouraging entrepreneurship among new immigrants from France, Belgium, and Ukraine.

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / On Campus / Education

Knesset Passes Law Killing Core Curriculum Requirement

By JNi.Media

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.

Jewish / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Aliyah / Geulah

Knesset Passes Law Assigning Running State Mikvahs to Chief Rabbinate

By JNi.Media

"Reform Jews in the US don’t have a single mikvah. All of a sudden they need a mikvah over here?"

US / Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Knesset Committee Approves Submission to US IRS Tax Compliance Act

By JNi.Media

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.

Politics / Government / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy

Knesset Committee Slams Finance Minister on Fear of Fighting Monopolies

By JNi.Media

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."

Haredim & Hassidim / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Judaism

Likely Compromise Found in Coalition Rift over Reform, Conservative Mikvahs

By JNi.Media

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.

Haredim & Hassidim / US / Politics / Government / The Courts / News Briefs / The Knesset / Business and Economy / Religious & Secular in Israel

Haredi Party Spearheading Effort to Protect Israeli Religious Charities from US Tax Authorities

By JNi.Media

Using the US' enormous economic clout, FATCA bullies the world's financial institutions into reporting on their American clients to Uncle Sam.

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / Jerusalem

Shas MK Deri Calls Hareidi Assault on IDF Officer 'Terror'

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

The officer of a Hareidi IDF unit was in Mea Shearim to visit two of his soldiers whose families have social or financial problems.

Israel / Politics / Elections / News Briefs / Israel Elections 5775

Likud Begins Coalition Building

By Jewish Press News Desk

Netanyahu said he wants to have a government formed within the next 2 to 3 weeks.

Israel / Politics / Elections / News Briefs / Israel Elections 5775

Gafni Says UTJ Will Only Go with Right

By Jewish Press News Desk

Gafni's position: The Left would give the Chareidim more money, but the Right allows more Judaism in the public schools.

Tzedek-Tzedek

The Beit Shemesh Spit that Wasn't?

By David Morris

The image of Naama Margalit became a symbol, overnight, of the struggle for peaceful neighborly relations in Beit Shemesh.

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Haredi MKs’ Holy Vision: Draft Law behind Israel’s Woes

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

IDF & Security / Haredim & Hassidim / News Briefs / The Knesset / Religious & Secular in Israel / Religion

Deputy Minister Calls Haredim ‘Parasites’ on Radio

By Tzvi Ben-Gedalyahu

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.

News Briefs

Knesset Committee Ejects Top Reform Clergyman from Meeting

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 […]

Serials

Getzlight – Chapter VII

By Ruchama Feuerman

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