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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

Aliza Lavie

Dr. Aliza Lavie pictured with her new book, Iconic Jewish Women, during its launch in Jerusalem on March 18, 2024 (Credit: Lior Sade).
March 21, 2024, 11:56 am
Iconic Jewish women gather to celebrate release of new, empowering bat mitzva book
At a book launch in Jerusalem, Dr. Aliza Lavie says her new compilation is for ‘bat mitzvah girls of all ages’ who want to delve deep into their ancient heritage
By Maya Zanger-Nadis
Israeli-German author Arye Sharuz Shalicar. (Courtesy)
May 23, 2019, 1:52 am
BDS activists disrupt Israeli author’s book event in Germany
Arye Shalicar, who works for the Intelligence Ministry, says incident shows there is ‘anti-Semitism in Germany on the left and in BDS’
By ToI Staff
Then-education minister Naftali Bennett and then-justice minister Ayelet Shaked from the New Right party at an election campaign tour in central Jerusalem on January 23, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
April 12, 2019, 3:50 pm
Fired: Shaked, Bennett & the 30 other MKs forced to add ‘former’ to their titles
New Right co-leaders are joined by 9 from Likud, 11 from Labor and 10 other lawmakers who ran in the 2019 elections but failed to make it into 21st Knesset
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish women in Mea Shearim, Jerusalem (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
January 12, 2019, 2:23 am
Court rules ultra-Orthodox party must end ban on women within 21 days
Though coalition’s Agudath Israel agrees to change regulations, it stresses move is ‘symbolic’ and ‘devoid of meaning,’ as its rabbis won’t allow women to run regardless
By ToI Staff
Illustrative picture of a #MeToo supporter of the online campaign against sexual abuse and harassment (nito100/Getty Images/iStock)
December 11, 2018, 11:57 am
New law allows sex abuse victims to speak out, give interviews
‘Those who need to hide are the criminals, not the victims,’ says justice minister, after cross-party support ends prohibition on publicity
By ToI Staff
David Keyes speaks to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, as he opens the weekly cabinet meeting at his Jerusalem office, July 23, 2018. (Gali Tibbon/Pool via AP)
September 13, 2018, 2:42 pm
Growing number of MKs call on Netanyahu to suspend Keyes amid accusations
Four female legislators say PM must intervene after 12 women tell Times of Israel of inappropriate behavior by his spokesman
By Raoul Wootliff and ToI Staff
A young Israeli secular couple walks next to an ultra-Orthodox couple as the light rail goes by on Jaffa road in central Jerusalem on January 22, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash 90)
June 19, 2018, 6:14 pm
Knesset passes law giving secular workers a Shabbat break
Non-religious Jews can now refrain from work on the day of rest without being questioned about their beliefs
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: A young woman stands outside a south Tel Aviv brothel, September 21, 2008. (Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
June 13, 2018, 6:09 pm
Justice minister presents legislation to fine johns who hire prostitutes
Ayelet Shaked unveils government-sponsored bill that would impose a penalty on customers purchasing sex services
By Tamar Pileggi
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center), along with the IDF's then-chief education officer Brig. Gen. Eli Schermeister (right), and several participants in the army's Nativ conversion course on December 15, 2010. (Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO, File/Courtesy)
May 31, 2018, 2:45 pm
Army conversion track to close Friday over budget shortfall
Some 2,500 students converting to Judaism, many of them IDF soldiers, will be left in limbo as Nativ track set to end activities
By Marissa Newman
Yesh Atid MK Aliza Lavie at the Knesset, February 13, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 5, 2018, 11:44 pm
Bill allowing aid to non-citizen ‘chained’ women passes first reading
Legislation would enable rabbinical courts to sanction non-Israeli Jewish men who refuse to grant their wives a divorce
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Aaron Leibowitz (right), presents an alternative kashrut certificate to the Whiskey Bar Museum in Tel Aviv's Sarona Market (Courtesy Hashgacha Pratit)
February 27, 2018, 5:54 pm
Private kashrut supervision closes in favor of new authority
Hashgacha Pratit announces it worked with religious-Zionist Tzohar group to create alternative to state rabbinate
By ToI Staff
Customers sit at the Carousela restaurant, which was supervised by Hashgaha Pratit - Hebrew for private supervision - to check it abides by kosher practices, on June 8, 2016, in Jerusalem's Rehavia neighborhood.(AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
February 26, 2018, 3:00 pm
In ‘challenge’ to rabbinate, Orthodox group launches own kosher supervision
Announcing initiative, religious-Zionist Tzohar group says it doesn’t seek to replace state-run system but merely open Israeli market to competition
By Marissa Newman
MK Menachem Eliezer Mozes of the United Torah Judaism party, file (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 14, 2018, 4:16 am
‘Go hold bar mitzvahs for dogs,’ Orthodox lawmaker tells Reform Jews
Menachem Eliezer Mozes lashes out during Knesset debate on body that manages Western Wall, calling Women of the Wall ‘clowns’
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: Shaul Shamai (c), suspected of molesting his students while acting as a substitute teacher, arrives escorted by prison guards at the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, June 13, 2017. (Flash90)
December 6, 2017, 2:49 pm
Bills would ban indicted sex offenders from teaching
Proposed legislation, which would force police to inform schools of allegations, clears preliminary reading unanimously
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: Demonstrators from the Agunot organization protest outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem in 2011. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
October 24, 2017, 2:24 pm
MKs seek to let Israeli courts sanction non-citizen recalcitrant husbands
‘Israel can give an answer to agunot where no one else can,’ says Aliza Lavie of proposal that seeks to alleviate the plight of women who can’t get a divorce
By ToI Staff
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