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A homeless man in Jerusalem. Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has emerged as one of the developed world’s most economically unequal countries. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
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Coronavirus is driving thousands of people into hunger. Where is the state?
By Sue Surkes
Charities shoulder most of the burden for food insecurity as a lack of government funding, and perhaps of will, leaves no guiding hand for largely helpless social welfare agencies
Interior Ministry Aryeh Deri in an interview with the ultra-Orthodox news site Kikar HaShabbat broadcast on May 9, 2020. (Screenshot/Kikar HaShabbat)
December 3, 2020, 6:15 am
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri said to secure top jobs for brother, son
Shas leader’s child Yaakov given department to head in World Zionist Organization, while brother promoted to co-chair of Jewish National Fund, Channel 12 reports
By TOI staff
A homeless man in Jerusalem. Under Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel has emerged as one of the developed world’s most economically unequal countries. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 28, 2020, 12:32 pm
Coronavirus is driving thousands of people into hunger. Where is the state?
Charities shoulder most of the burden for food insecurity as a lack of government funding, and perhaps of will, leaves no guiding hand for largely helpless social welfare agencies
By Sue Surkes
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, and Defense Minister Benny Gantz issue a statement at the Defense Ministry in Tel Aviv, July 27, 2020. (AP Photo/Tal Shahar, Yediot Ahronoth, Pool)
November 23, 2020, 6:01 pm
Netanyahu, Gantz trade fire on submarine inquiry as coalition collapse looms
After defense minister forms inquiry committee into Case 3000, Likud raps his ‘shameful use’ of IDF; Deri apparently walks back vow that Gantz will be PM
By Michael Bachner and TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, holds a joint press conference with United States Vice President Joe Biden at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on March 9, 2016. (Amit Shabi/POOL)
November 3, 2020, 10:06 pm
TV: ‘Jerusalem’ said expecting a Biden victory; Shas leader prays for Trump win
Unnamed Israeli officials predict that Democratic challenger will prevail, Channel 12 says; it notes Jerusalem officials expected a Clinton win in 2016
By TOI staff
Shas party chairman and Interior Affairs Minister, Aryeh Deri, left, speaks with United Torah Judaism party leader, then health minister, Yaakov Litzman in the Knesset, March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
November 2, 2020, 6:22 pm
Knesset vote on higher fines for virus violations stalled amid Haredi opposition
Ministers approve measure, but meeting to prepare bill put off; Netanyahu to seek compromise in meeting with United Torah Judaism chiefs
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the traditional selling of the the hametz (food containing leavening) of the state of Israel to a non-Jew before the upcoming Passover holiday, on March 29, 2018. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
October 27, 2020, 6:17 am
Ombudsman calls to review Sephardi chief rabbi’s status as rabbinical judge
Former justice says Yitzhak Yosef has made ‘hateful comments against large parts of the public’ while ignoring court rulings; Aryeh Deri vows to protect chief rabbis’ independence
By TOI staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, with Shas party chairman Interior Minister Aryeh Deri, March 4, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 20, 2020, 11:31 am
Deri told the Haredim that Netanyahu agreed to let their schools open – report
After government dropped plan to release Talmud Torahs from lockdown, interior minister said to have informed ultra-Orthodox leaders that at one point PM would have let them open
By TOI staff
Illustrative: A Knesset committee meeting on October 14, 2020. (Shmulik Grossman/Knesset)
October 19, 2020, 4:09 pm
Knesset health expert charges lawmakers ignoring professional advice
Leading academic who has briefed Knesset members says most politicians have made their minds up, on political lines, long before debates begin
By Nathan Jeffay
Police lead away the brother of the bride after breaking up a wedding that violated coronavirus restrictions in Givat Ze'ev on October 14, 2020 (screencapture/Twitter)
October 15, 2020, 1:44 am
Probe ordered after violent clash as police break up wedding over lockdown rules
Outcry as police filmed leading bloody, dazed brother of the bride out of Givat Ze’ev event amid screams and cries of family and guests; police say officers were attacked first
By Stuart Winer
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri speaks at a Knesset faction meeting of his Shas party on September 22, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 14, 2020, 10:58 pm
Deri said to warn of possible Haredi ‘revolt’ if yeshivas barred from reopening
TV report says many rabbis back opening ultra-Orthodox schools next week, even if government doesn’t ease lockdown restrictions
By TOI staff
Screen capture from video of Interior Minister Aryeh Deri denying that he had broken coronavirus lockdown travel restrictions on Yom Kippur, October 6, 2020. (Twitter)
October 6, 2020, 5:14 pm
Interior minister scrambles to dispel ‘slander’ he broke travel lockdown
Ayreh Deri says ‘a liar’ is telling the media he prayed in Tiberias on Yom Kippur, insists he was in Jerusalem; former mayor claims unnamed ‘senior minister’ was in northern city
By Stuart Winer and TOI staff
Police set up a temporary roadblock on Menachem Begin Street in Tel Aviv to enforce a coronavirus lockdown, on September 23, 2020. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
September 24, 2020, 9:44 am
Cabinet approves near-total national shutdown to stem runaway infection rate
Ministers limit holiday prayer gatherings and demonstrations, close ‘nonessential’ businesses ; finance minister decries new closure’s ‘critical’ harm to the economy
By TOI staff
A protester holds a sign depicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu during a protest a against him outside his residence in Jerusalem, July 31, 2020. (AP/Oded Balilty)
September 23, 2020, 2:04 pm
As PM seeks ‘tighter’ lockdown, Gantz says he’ll back limits on protests, prayer
Cabinet to discuss harsh new measures with daily infections swelling to almost 7,000; defense minister says health and security as sacred as right to demonstrate and worship
By TOI staff
Medical staff at the coronavirus ward of the Kaplan Medical Center, in Rehovot, on September 22, 2020 (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
September 23, 2020, 8:58 am
Virus surges to almost 7,000 daily cases as cabinet meets on tightening closure
Gamzu says public still not fully cooperating; testing hits almost 60,000 Tuesday; deputy health minister expects indoor prayer to stop, no inter-city travel for protests
By TOI staff
Police arrest a man who drove toward police and demonstrators during a protest against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, outside the PM's official residence in Jerusalem, on September 20, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 22, 2020, 11:41 pm
Cabinet delays decision on new virus rules as Netanyahu pans protest ‘farce’
Ministers adjourn meeting without compromise on limiting mass demonstrations, synagogues; Haredi minister threatens to resign if restrictions placed on prayer but not on protests
By TOI staff
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