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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 366

Chaim Druckman

Activists attempt to reestablish an illegal settlement outpost dubbed Or Chaim in the northern West Bank on January 22, 2023. (Courtesy)
January 22, 2023, 9:05 pm
Illegal West Bank outpost evacuated for second time as coalition tensions persist
Religious Zionism ministers boycott weekly cabinet meeting in protest of Or Chaim’s earlier evacuation; MK: Violating coalition deal will have ‘consequences’
By Jeremy Sharon
Security forces move in to evacuate an illegal settlement outpost established in the West Bank on January 20, 2023. (Courtesy)
January 20, 2023, 2:52 pm
Illegal West Bank outpost evacuated on Gallant’s orders, in defiance of Smotrich
Demolition of site set up to commemorate national religious rabbi Druckman seen as first test of shaky coalition deal that divides authority of Defense Ministry in West Bank
By ToI Staff
Otzma Yedudit MK Limor Son Har-Melech (3R) poses with activists who set up an illegal outpost in the West Bank on January 20, 2023 (Courtesy)
January 20, 2023, 11:54 am
In test for coalition, illegal West Bank outpost set up in name of Rabbi Druckman
Organizers say site deliberately chosen to foil Palestinian territorial contiguity, call on Netanyahu government not to raze it like the previous government did
By Michael Horovitz
An LGBTQ rights protest against the new government, in Tel Aviv, December 29, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 9, 2023, 6:58 am
Viral video shared by PM’s son of ‘leftists burning rabbi’s photo’ found to be fake
Disinformation watchdog says crudely spliced video, showing picture of Rabbi Chaim Druckman going up in flames, was likely disseminated by foreign agents seeking to sow discord
By Ash Obel
Likud leader MK Benjamin Netanyahu with Otzma Yehudit party head Itamar Ben Gvir at a vote in the assembly hall of the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (courtesy, Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 29, 2022, 12:57 pm
Daily Briefing Dec. 29: What looms for Law of Return, and final coalition details
Settlements reporter Jeremy Sharon on coalition deals for Ben Gvir and Smotrich; religion correspondent Judah Ari Gross on new Diaspora affairs minister and Chaim Druckman legacy
By ToI Staff
Former and current students attend the funeral of Rabbi Chaim Druckman in Merkaz Shapira in central Israel on December 26, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 26, 2022, 1:29 pm
‘One of the great rabbis of Israel’: Religious Zionist Rabbi Chaim Druckman mourned
Thousands of people brave rainy weather to attend funeral of influential spiritual leader of the national religious community, who died Sunday at 90
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Chaim Druckman during a press conference in Jerusalem on March 22, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
December 26, 2022, 10:13 am
Roads closed in south ahead of Druckman funeral; hundreds of police deployed
Spiritual leader of political religious Zionism to be eulogized by Netanyahu, Herzog, Smotrich, chief rabbi and leading religious figures
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Chaim Druckman attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party, ahead of the Israeli general elections, February 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 26, 2022, 1:26 am
Rabbi Druckman lauded and mourned by politicians as friend and counsel
Leaders eulogize spiritual leader of religious Zionist movement; Netanyahu laments ‘great light’ that has been extinguished
By Ash Obel
Rabbi Chaim Druckman attends an event at the Jerusalem International Convention Center on December 30, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
December 25, 2022, 10:01 pm
Rabbi Chaim Druckman, spiritual leader of political religious Zionism, dies at 90
A founder of the settler movement, who coined the term Gush Emunim, Druckman influenced country’s top leaders as an educator and major political power in Israeli society
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Chaim Druckman attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party, ahead of the Israeli general elections, February 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 12, 2022, 4:41 am
Leading rabbi Chaim Druckman seriously ill after catching COVID, family says
Former MK, 90, seen as the top spiritual figure in the national religious community and a powerful political player among right wing, in ‘serious but stable condition’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Chaim Druckman (L) and Rabbi Zvi Tau (Oliver Fittousi/Flash90)
December 7, 2022, 10:11 pm
Top national religious rabbi calls rape allegations against Rabbi Zvi Tau ‘gossip’
Rabbi Chaim Druckman appears to dismiss accusations against head of influential Jerusalem yeshiva, while suggesting he should be ‘hanged’ if they’re proven true
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionism chairman Bezalel Smotrich (R) with the party's spiritual adviser Chaim Druckman in 2022. (Courtesy)
November 18, 2022, 10:10 pm
Spiritual adviser to Smotrich backs theocracy: ‘No problem having a halachic state’
Rabbi Chaim Druckman: Private rights wouldn’t be harmed, but only Orthodox conversions would be allowed, buses wouldn’t run on Sabbath; Liberman: They want state of the ayatollahs
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich exits a coalition negotiation meeting with Shas party head Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 14, 2022, 11:01 am
Smotrich increases pressure on Netanyahu to make him defense minister
As coalition negotiations heat up but with presumptive next PM said reluctant to give him post, far-right leader meets former IDF generals, gets backing from prominent rabbis
By Michael Bachner
MK Mansour Abbas, left, leads a discussion and a vote on a bill to dissolve the Knesset on June 29, 2022; Rabbi Haim Drukman attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party on February 12, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90); (Tomer Neuberg/FLASH90)
July 6, 2022, 1:51 pm
Top right-wing rabbi came close to endorsing Likud-led coalition with Ra’am – report
New details from meeting last year suggest Netanyahu sought Haim Druckman’s approval for a government with Mansour Abbas and his Islamist party, before Smotrich thwarted effort
By Tobias Siegal
MK Idit Silman, center, MK Abir Kara, left, and others vote on the state budget at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 7, 2022, 12:56 am
After Silman mutiny, all eyes on who might jump coalition ship next
Yamina MK Abir Kara seen as most likely to defect, but opposition will need to do a lot more wooing if it has any hopes of retaking power
By Carrie Keller-Lynn and ToI Staff
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