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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 371

Dov Lior

Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends a Lag B'Omer celebration in Safed, on May 26, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
July 22, 2024, 8:05 pm
Top religious Zionist rabbis call for scrapping ‘dangerous’ hostage deal
Clerics with sway over coalition’s hard-line flank argue risk posed by possible agreement trumps imperative to free captives; senior UTJ lawmaker Gafni takes opposite position
By ToI Staff
Amiram Ben Uliel, convicted of the Duma arson murder in July 2015, in which three members of the Dawabsha family were killed, attends a hearing on his appeal, at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, on March 7, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 21, 2023, 10:59 am
Campaign to free Israeli killer of Palestinian family raises over NIS 1.2 million
6,000 people donate, reportedly including right-wing rabbis, head of ultranationalist Lehava, singer Ariel Zilber; Shalom Hanoch, Aviv Geffen back out of concert with Zilber
By ToI Staff
Erez Malul, a lawmaker for Shas, attends the coronation ceremony of Rabbi Yehuda Cohen at a synagogue in Jerusalem, July 13, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 2, 2023, 6:59 pm
New bill could create jobs for 1,070 rabbis, cost taxpayers tens of millions a year
Religious hardliners are among critics of the bill, which many see as part of a pact benefiting Shas and the Chief Rabbinate
By Canaan Lidor
File: Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at the International Convention Center, on February 1, 2022. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
July 16, 2023, 6:21 pm
Chief Sephardic rabbi: Ben Gvir’s Temple Mount visits are a ‘sin’
Rebuke is an escalation in the rhetoric around ultranationalist minister’s pilgrimages to the site in defiance of rulings by some rabbis
By Canaan Lidor
Illustrative: Children cross a street after leaving school in Beit El on May 1, 2019. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)
September 16, 2022, 5:46 am
Defying ministry, rabbis tell school to put transgender boy in female-only class
Religious figures wade into case that has roiled religious elementary school in Givat Shmuel, claiming that Jewish law forbids cross-dressing
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 2, 2021, 9:15 am
Prominent national-religious rabbis call for protests against government
Statement signed by rabbis Chaim Druckman, Dov Lior charges legislation backed by government on conversion, kashrut and Western Wall will ‘endanger the essence of the state’
By ToI Staff
Police use water cannonד on protesters during a rally over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 2, 2021, 11:27 pm
7 cops hurt, police car overturned at violent protests over settler teen’s death
Report: Officers who took part in chase that led to death of Ahuvia Sandak cleared, but teens who were in the car with him will face charges, including negligent homicide
By ToI Staff
The Israeli teen (L) suspected of killing Aisha Rabi in the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on January 23, 2019. (YouTube/Screen capture)
January 31, 2019, 1:05 pm
Top rabbis raise money for defense of suspect in Palestinian woman’s killing
Request for donations from national Zionist leaders comes as family of Jewish teen alleged to have killed Aisha Rabi releases video asking for money for legal costs
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a demonstration against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for same-sex couples, outside the supreme court in Jerusalem on July 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 27, 2018, 8:40 am
200 Israeli rabbis slam LGBT rights groups for ‘turning perverts into heroes’
Letter from Orthodox clerics in defense of Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Aryeh Stern says children raised by gay couples have ‘strange and unnatural lives’
By Michael Bachner
Illustrative: About 100 'Bnei Menashe' (Sons of Menashe) from India landed at Ben Gurion Airport, on June 25, 2015, immigrating to Israel. (Flash90)
March 28, 2018, 12:42 pm
Ministry: Israel should woo 60 million people who have Jewish links to aid state
Seeking converts, immigrants, and Israel advocates, Diaspora Ministry-appointed panel suggests pilot project among 5 million descendants of Jewish converts to Christianity
By Sue Surkes
A chicken inside a barn at the Givat Olam organic farm near the settlement of Itamar, in the West Bank, on April 09, 2012 (Nati Shohat/FLASH90)
July 13, 2016, 12:26 pm
No harm, no fowl: Startup to grow chickenless chicken
SuperMeat, developed by a Hebrew University biomedical engineer, promises to be both vegan and kosher
By Andrew Tobin
Rina Ariel mourns over the body of her 13-year-old daughter Hallel Yaffa, who was stabbed to death by a Palestinian terrorist in her home, during her eulogy in the Kiryat Arba settlement on June 30, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 1, 2016, 3:24 am
Hallel Ariel, ‘princess in white,’ mourned in Hebron funeral
As young dancer killed by Palestinian terrorist is laid to rest, politicians and rabbi speak of building and annexation, while mother Rina thanks God for 13 years with ‘the light of my life’
By Judah Ari Gross
Rabbi Yitzchak Ginsburgh. (Kobi Gideon/ FLASH90)
January 8, 2016, 3:13 am
Radical Israeli rabbis come under fire amid settler violence
Recent attacks against Arabs have brought the teachings of extremists into the spotlight
By Tia Goldenberg
Illustrative: Rabbi Dov Lior speaks at a rally outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem in July 2011 (photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
December 27, 2015, 12:27 pm
Sunday the rabbi was brought in for questioning
A looming crackdown on the ‘extremist’ rabbinical world engenders a talmudic discussion of how much of a shift it represents and whether it’s even the right move to make
By Joshua Davidovich
Defense Minister Moshe Ya'alon (Alex Kolomoisky/POOL/FLASH90)
December 26, 2015, 8:12 pm
Ya’alon: Jewish terrorists to be indicted soon for Duma attack
Defense minister says Israel taking ‘draconian steps’ to prevent repeat of July firebombing that killed Palestinian parents and baby
By ToI Staff
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