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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Haim Biton

Shas minister Haim Biton attends an Education, Culture, and Sports Committee meeting at the Knesset, on August 14, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 18, 2025, 2:00 pm
Police grill Shas minister for alleged funneling of taxpayer money to party paper
Officers interrogate Haim Biton, arrest four others in connection to alleged transfer of public funds to pay employees’ salaries while minister headed Shas school network
By Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox students study at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 5, 2025, 2:26 pm
‘Do not cooperate’: Nonprofit linked to top Haredi rabbis encourages draft dodging
Haredim are pushing for coalition funds for Vaad HaYeshivot, which tells yeshiva students to ignore the law in favor of ‘the instructions of the sages’
By Sam Sokol
Shas party leader MK Aryeh Deri in the Knesset, Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 13, 2024, 10:25 pm
Shas chief Deri was aware state funds were going to party newspaper — report
AG probing Shas Minister Haim Biton after money meant for party-linked educational network allegedly used to pay salaries at Shas mouthpiece HaDerech
By Sam Sokol
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir at the scene of a terror attack in Ramle, April 26, 2024. (Jamal Awad/Flash90)
April 28, 2024, 11:04 am
Ben Gvir released from hospital after car crash, won’t admit he ran red light
Far-right minister claims he needs to violate traffic rules because he is under threat; driver of second car says bodyguards pointed guns at him after accident
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox soldiers stand on the stage at a Memorial Day service for fallen Haredi soldiers in Jerusalem, April 24, 2023. (Chaim Tovito)
April 25, 2023, 3:48 pm
‘Glorious legacy’: Over 1,200 attend Memorial Day ceremony for fallen Haredi troops
Ministers, politicians, religious and military officials join bereaved families in Jerusalem to remember ultra-Orthodox soldiers of the IDF’s Haredi battalions
By Michael Horovitz
An Israeli soldier places flags, flowers and candles on graves of fallen soldiers at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, April 23, 2023, ahead of Memorial Day. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 23, 2023, 6:30 pm
String of coalition ministers, MKs withdraw from Memorial Day events amid protests
UTJ and Shas lawmakers who did not serve in IDF back out of events, as does Likud Minister Galit Distel Atbaryan, who has been criticized for recent incendiary comments
By Ash Obel
Minister within the Education Ministry Haim Biton arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
February 9, 2023, 3:41 am
Ultra-Orthodox minister says public should ‘be afraid’ of growing community size
Participants in local authorities’ education conference walk out as Haim Biton claims high Haredi birth rate has defeated alleged efforts to suppress community
By ToI Staff
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