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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 651

Aryeh Deri

Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein delivers a statement on efforts to pass an ultra-Orthodox conscription law, July 15, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Edelstein stands ground on draft-dodger sanctions as Shas set to depart coalition
By Sam Sokol
‘Public will not forgive those who fail to rise to the occasion,’ powerful Likud MK warns Haredi parties, whose exit will not topple Netanyahu government for the time being
Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman Yuli Edelstein delivers a statement on efforts to pass an ultra-Orthodox conscription law, July 15, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 15, 2025, 9:32 pm
Edelstein stands ground on draft-dodger sanctions as Shas set to depart coalition
‘Public will not forgive those who fail to rise to the occasion,’ powerful Likud MK warns Haredi parties, whose exit will not topple Netanyahu government for the time being
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-orthodox men clash with police during a protest against the military draft, outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, August 5, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
July 10, 2025, 3:17 am
Haredi party chiefs slam AG as enforcement against draft evaders slated to increase
Comparing PM to Winston Churchill, mouthpiece for ultra-Orthodox faction warns Netanyahu could lose power for not passing law exempting yeshiva students from mandatory army service
By Sam Sokol
Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri, right, speaks with United Torah Judaism No. 2 MK Moshe Gafni during a Knesset plenum session in Jerusalem, February 10, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 7, 2025, 8:11 pm
Coalition pulls all legislation after Haredi parties mutiny over conscription bill
United Torah Judaism party says it ‘will not vote with the coalition’ until presented with an updated draft of a law exempting yeshiva students from military service
By Sam Sokol
Knesset member Aryeh Deri looks at Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a vote on the state budget at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
June 11, 2025, 5:51 pm
Coalition scrambles for deal with Haredim ahead of preliminary vote to dissolve Knesset
Shas said to be pressuring Degel Hatorah to give Netanyahu more time; no agreement has been reached yet, says Knesset legal adviser Sagit Afik
By Sam Sokol
United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni speaks with Shas chairman Aryeh Deri in the Knesset plenum, June 11, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 10, 2025, 8:15 pm
Despite harsh rhetoric, Shas still seeks to avoid dissolution of Knesset
Ultra-Orthodox party’s chairman, Aryeh Deri, hopes last-minute talks with Netanyahu and Edelstein will yield enough progress to convince rabbis ‘to request a postponement’
By Sam Sokol
Shas party chairman and Interior Affairs Minister, Aryeh Deri, casts his ballot at a voting station in Jerusalem, during the Knesset Elections, on March 02, 2020 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 9, 2025, 9:28 pm
How likely are the Haredim to actually topple the government — and what comes next?
With Shas and UTJ using the threat of elections to pressure Netanyahu for concessions on enlistment issue, coalition insider puts chances of Knesset dissolving during summer session at 20%
By Sam Sokol
United Torah Judaism MKs confer in the Knesset plenum, December 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)
June 4, 2025, 2:59 pm
Elections may loom as senior rabbis tell Haredi UTJ party to bolt coalition
Party’s spiritual leaders, fed up with failure to pass a law exempting yeshiva students from conscription, reportedly refusing to speak with Netanyahu; UTJ would need Shas’s support to bring down government
By Sam Sokol
Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf arrives at a United Torah Judaism party meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on May 19, 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
May 28, 2025, 10:06 pm
UTJ said upping threats to ditch coalition over failure to pass Haredi draft exemptions
Reports say party will weigh quitting or moving to dissolve Knesset if law isn’t passed after Shavuot; Shas reportedly trying to keep party in government
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism MKs hold a faction meeting in the Knesset, January 27, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 8, 2025, 9:50 am
‘The final deadline’: Could the IDF conscription crisis bring down Netanyahu’s government?
Without a bill shielding Haredim from the draft, the Knesset’s ultra-Orthodox parties are weighing tactics from boycotting votes on coalition legislation to toppling the government
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, fourth from right, addresses ministers at a special cabinet meeting in Nahariya, December 3, 2024. (Maayan Toaf/GPO)
May 4, 2025, 7:57 pm
Government approves controversial legislation regulating top officials’ salaries
Ministerial Committee for Legislation backs bill on condition that ministers, MKs do not receive raises; Smotrich calls to cut ‘excessive salaries’ of senior judges
By Sam Sokol
Yair Netanyahu attends an event after the release of first voting results in the Israeli general elections, at the Likud party headquarters in Tel Aviv, on September 18, 2019. (Gili Yaari/Flash90/File)
May 1, 2025, 12:44 am
PM’s firebrand son baselessly suggests Israeli left to blame for major blazes
Yair Netanyahu claims the fires are ‘suspicious’ because ‘the Kaplanist left has been frantically trying in recent weeks to cancel Independence Day celebrations’
By ToI Staff
Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi addresses the Knesset plenum, March 31, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov / Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
April 1, 2025, 10:14 am
In blitz, Knesset passes laws to rebuild the south, revoke benefits for terrorists
Lawmakers end winter parliamentary session with flurry of votes ahead of month-long recess, including forming an anti-poverty authority, banning teachers with Palestinian degrees
By Sam Sokol
Posters for United Torah Judaism candidate Shmuel Greenberg defaced ahead of the 2024 municipal election in Beit Shemesh. (Sam Sokol)
March 20, 2025, 5:45 pm
PM, President Herzog, Haredi ministers condemn mob attack on Beit Shemesh mayor
‘We must denounce the extremists and the violent among us,’ says United Torah Judaism chairman Goldknopf in wake of assault on Degel Hatorah’s Shmuel Greenberg
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
March 7, 2025, 8:39 am
Hasidic MKs tell Netanyahu they’ll oppose budget if draft exemption law not passed
Report says despite PM’s promises, Haredi draft exemption bill likely to be postponed; out of 10,000 Haredim who received draft orders since July, only 177 have enlisted, IDF says
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox posters in Beit Shemesh demand the passage of a law exempting yeshiva students from military service prior to the passage of the 2025 state budget, March 6, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
March 6, 2025, 8:43 pm
Haredi lawmakers split on approach to budget, which must pass this month or gov’t falls
While UTJ chair Goldknopf threatens to send Israel to elections if Haredi draft-exemption bill not passed, other ultra-Orthodox MKs say problems solved with $280 million now in budget base
By Sam Sokol and Leon Kraiem
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