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By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
"If the conscription law is not passed before the budget, we will withdraw from the government," Yitzhak Goldknopf said.
“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.”
By Jewish News Syndicate (JNS)
“The biggest troubles for religious issues and the ultra-Orthodox public came from the Supreme Court. There is no area where it did not hurt us.”
Prime Minister-designate Benjamin Netanyahu has until Sunday to finalize coalition agreements, or ask for an extension from President Herzog.
Gafni has little patience for those who are implying that the religious parties planning on usurping Israeli democracy.
By Aryeh Savir, Tazpit News Agency
Litzman is returning as a deputy minister, to avoid ministerial responsibilities related to Coronavirus decisions.
Blue & White offered the Likud a quick negotiation if the Likud were to dump its political partners: Shas, UTJ and Yamina - an offer the Likud flatly turned down.
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.
Netanyahu is ready to expand the government with Lapid's Yesh Atid Party, but the rabbis nixed the idea. "Lapid is a red line."
Netanyahu falsely accused Bennett of signing a coalition agreement that returns more power to Hareidim.
Litzman doesn't disqualify anyone, well, except Lapid, and that may only be before the elections.
Gafni's position: The Left would give the Chareidim more money, but the Right allows more Judaism in the public schools.
MK Yaakov Litzman (UTJ) responded strongly to Health Minister Yael German's (Yesh Atid) proposed legislation that would permit the state to automatically harvest organs from all dead Israeli without their explicit consent, unless the citizen previously signed a organ donor refusal card. Litzman said, according to an Arutz-7 report, "This disgusting proposal has no place […]
By Yair Lapid
Last week, a few minutes after my stormy exchange with haredi members of Knesset, I went to what we in the Knesset call the "back cafeteria." It is not exactly a cafeteria but rather a lounge area behind the plenum where members of Knesset alone can enter.
Why throw years of friendly cooperation into the trashcan?
Haredi leaders could not care less if Israel retains Judea and Samaria - as long as their Mosdos (religious institutions) get funded.
There ought to be a process of exempting yeshiva students via bechinos (tests).
By Shalom Bear
Who's to blame for there being no religious bloc in the negotiations with the Likud?
Shas and UTJ claim that they're joining the coalition. The question now is, who will be the last party to join?
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has not discounted the possibility of calling new elections, Likud sources say, according to the Israeli publication, Ma'ariv.
Not exactly what Jewish Home voters thought they would get on election day.
Like Liberman before, Lapid will likely be Netanyahu's major partner as under almost any coalition figuration Yesh Atid can bring down the coalition.
In the past, Chareidi (Ultra-Orthodox) participation in election voting has never topped more than around a third of their potential voters. Chareidim have avoided voting for two primary reasons. The first is to minimize their participation in the Zionist enterprise, the second is that many Chareidim are actually disillusioned with the Chareidi political leadership, and […]
By Tzvi Fishman
The only thing preventing it from becoming a reality is the tragic fact that so many Orthodox Jews prefer living in the Diaspora.
The intensifying focus on legislating an alternative to the Tal Law has the ultra-Orthodox parties in the Likud-led coalition defensive yet intractable. Shas and UTJ - representing 15 seats in the government - have declared that they will not participate in the coalition committee on finding an alternative.
June 19, 2026 
