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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 340

David Stav

Adam Hajaj speaks during a rally for hostages in Gaza in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 12, 2024, 3:54 pm
October 7 trauma reconnects Israelis with a 2,000-year-old Jewish day of mourning
Thousands of synagogues prepare to feature lamentations about the Hamas atrocities, on Tisha B’Av, a fast day that commemorates historical – and now contemporary – tragedies
By Canaan Lidor
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a prayer for the release of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, at Rachel's Tomb, near the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 28, 2024, 2:18 pm
Chief rabbi under fire for crediting yeshivas, not army, with Israel’s survival in war
Critics slam Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, with one retorting that by that logic, the rabbi himself ‘should go to jail with his supporters for their failure on October 7’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
December 24, 2023, 2:49 pm
A leading Religious Zionist rabbi hopes a post-Oct. 7 Israeli faith resurgence endures
As Israel fights its enemies, Tzohar co-founder Rabbi David Stav sees Jewish Israelis turning to their religion and unifying around it — but he worries about a post-war slump
By Ben Sales
Polly Bronstein speaks at the Ben Gurion Home on Sept. 10, 2023 in Tel Aviv, Israel. (Guy Anto)
September 12, 2023, 10:06 am
Fearing crisis, secular and devout unveil new Israeli manifesto at Ben Gurion’s home
The document, authored by prominent individuals from both sides of the religious divide, seeks to address what it means to have a Jewish state
By Canaan Lidor
Pro- and anti-overhaul demonstrators hold prayers at the Western Wall, in Jerusalem, July 23, 2023. (Charlie Summers/The Times of Israel)
July 23, 2023, 1:20 pm
Activists on both sides of overhaul debate hold mass Western Wall prayer for unity
Ahead of Tisha B’Av, organizers of gathering and subsequent march in Jerusalem plead with sparring parties to think of the destruction brought on by discord
By Canaan Lidor and Charlie Summers
Religious supervision at a fruit and vegetable company, March 20, 2016 (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)
June 21, 2023, 5:48 pm
High Court says Rabbinate must review exclusion of competitor’s kosher certification
Court rules in favor of a petition by the Tzohar rabbinical group against its exclusion from labeling imported goods
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
March 22, 2023, 12:25 am
Leading rabbi calls for public day of fasting to heal overhaul discord
Tzohar founder Rabbi David Stav issues plea for prayers and refraining from food Wednesday ‘so our leaders find the way to continue this tremendous project — the State of Israel’
By Canaan Lidor
Israelis wave flags during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 13, 2023 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
February 14, 2023, 10:36 pm
75 Israeli Orthodox leaders call for dialogue on judicial overhaul
Though many signatories of open letter have deep ties to settler movement, most are part of the more liberal wing of the religious Zionist community
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Zvi Tau in 2018. (Screenshot)
November 10, 2022, 11:05 am
National religious rabbis urge probe of sex abuse allegations against Rabbi Tau
Rabbis Yuval Cherlow and David Stav of Tzohar say police must investigate claims against ultra-conservative religious leader
By Amy Spiro
Then-Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana speaks during a Conference of the 'Besheva' group in Jerusalem, on August 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 3, 2022, 1:16 pm
Matan Kahana has upset the religious status quo, and his work won’t be easily undone
After a year in the Religious Services Ministry, Yamina MK gets a middling grade from liberal figures for shaking up Haredi hegemony but failing to advance core issues
By Judah Ari Gross
Jewish men pray at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site, in Jerusalem's Old City, April 19, 2020. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 17, 2020, 5:56 pm
As pressure from faithful mounts, government plans to reopen synagogues
With beaches packed and schools reopening, many have questioned the continued closure of houses of worship, which served as major vector for spread of COVID-19
By Sam Sokol
Rabbi David Stav, co-founder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization, speaks at the 5th annual Israeli Presidential Conference in Jerusalem on June 20, 2013. (Flash 90)
March 18, 2020, 12:45 pm
Prominent rabbis advocate closing synagogues to fight virus, as rabbinate demurs
Rabbi David Stav calls on his congregations to pray alone; Eliezer Melamed also says staying home preferable, but chief rabbi insists orders haven’t changed
By ToI Staff
Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the traditional selling of 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)
January 7, 2020, 5:35 pm
Chief rabbi doubles down on comments against immigrants as Liberman urges probe
Sephardic leader also claims his filmed comments calling some former Soviet Union ‘religion-hating gentiles’ were ‘distorted by politically interested sources’
By ToI Staff
Jewish immigrants from Ukraine arrive at Ben-Gurion International Airport. (AP Photo/Oded Balilty, File)
January 7, 2020, 1:29 pm
PM chides chief rabbi for maligning Soviet immigrants, MKs call for his ouster
Netanyahu says Yitzhak Yosef’s reference to ‘religion-hating gentiles’ is ‘outrageous and inappropriate’; Liberman decries ‘anti-Semitic and racist’ remarks
By ToI Staff
Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
June 6, 2019, 8:56 pm
Israeli rabbis’ Shavuot learning program goes global
Study sessions developed by Tzohar Rabbinical Organization to take place in 90 Israeli locations as well as in India, Sweden and Greece
By Marcy Oster
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