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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 350

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Illustrative: The hesder yeshiva in the Itamar settlement in the West Bank, May 2, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
August 19, 2024, 5:50 pm
Report: Gallant approved 7 new ‘hesder’ yeshivas for ultra-Orthodox soldiers
Decision to launch more Haredi establishments that combine military service with Torah studies comes amid bitter dispute over High Court mandating yeshiva students’ enlistment
By ToI Staff
Female soldiers operate a tank in the Negev desert in an undated photograph. (Israel Defense Forces)
November 22, 2022, 12:40 am
Top yeshiva urges students not to join tank corps over mixed-gender training fears
Prominent Har Etzion seminary says it is reacting to IDF adding women to officers’ training course without advance notice, a charge the army denies
By Amy Spiro and Emanuel Fabian
The late Rabbi Achiad Ettinger seen at the gate of Oz V'emuna hesder yeshiva in Tel Aviv, in 2017 (YouTube screenshot)
April 26, 2019, 2:31 pm
Vandals attack Tel Aviv yeshiva of rabbi slain in terror shooting
Gate of religious seminary founded by the late Rabbi Achiad Ettinger removed from its hinges; police investigating
By ToI Staff
Flowers lay on the grave of late prime minister Yitzhak Rabin during a memorial service marking 21 years since his assassination, held at Mount Herzl cemetery in Jerusalem on November 4, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 14, 2018, 11:45 am
Religious soldiers jailed after refusing to visit Rabin’s grave, going AWOL
Four servicemen sentenced to 14 days in prison after they refuse to visit the burial site of Israel’s assassinated PM while on an army trip
By Judah Ari Gross
Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman attends the Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, on March 6, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 29, 2017, 6:55 pm
Liberman backpedals on demand that pre-army yeshiva head resign
Defense Minister says he will limit size of program after AG rules he doesn’t have authority for ultimatum against Yigal Levinstein over sexist remarks
By Judah Ari Gross and ToI Staff
Female soldiers from the mixed-gender Caracal Battalion train in southern Israel on December 10, 2014. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
March 29, 2017, 9:10 am
AG: Liberman can’t summon rabbi over ‘sexist’ comments
Mandelblit concludes punishing Eli yeshiva chief for disparaging female soldiers is beyond defense minister’s authority
By Stuart Winer
Rabbi Eli Sadan speaks during a protest in front of the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on February 21, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 17, 2017, 1:20 am
Israel Prize-winning rabbi rejects call to fire provocative colleague
Eli Sadan refuses to ‘cooperate with dictatorship‘ in having Yigal Levinstein fired for comments against women soldiers
By ToI Staff
Education Minister Naftali Bennett (L) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, during a plenum session in the Knesset on December 5, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 16, 2017, 3:48 pm
Bennett blasts Netanyahu for failing to defend pre-army academy
Amid uproar over rabbi who called female soldiers ‘crazy,’ education minister tells PM he ‘abandoned religious Zionism’
By Alexander Fulbright and Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: Female soldiers of the Caracal Battalion, November 2007. (Yoni Markovitzki/IDF Spokesperson/Flash90)
March 16, 2017, 10:41 am
Liberal Orthodox rabbis ban service in mixed combat units
Beit Hillel organization also signs plea for army chiefs to show sensitivity, not segregate religious soldiers into ‘ghettos’
By ToI Staff
Yair Sheleg
January 30, 2017, 3:34 pm
Yair Sheleg
Religious Zionism embraces capitalism
The National-Religious camp has jettisoned social justice in favor of a hard-hearted — and unsustainable — worldview
Naomi Chazan
December 5, 2016, 2:11 pm
Naomi Chazan
Religion plus nationalism spawns sexism
Societal forces are unleashing the baser instincts of those in charge, making sexual harassment by higher-ups rampant
Illustrative image of a female IDF tank instructor during an exercise on January 1, 2013. (Cpl. Zev Marmorstein/IDF Spokesperson's Unit)
November 30, 2016, 12:54 pm
Rabbis vow to keep women out of IDF tanks
Orthodox leaders say they will campaign to maintain status quo, will instruct soldiers to resist attempts at integration
By Stuart Winer
Knesset Speaker Yuli Edelstein meets with a group of Orthodox rabbis at his office following the torching of the Tabgha church, June 25, 2015. (Yuli Edelstein Facebook page)
June 28, 2015, 5:18 pm
Knesset speaker signs first check to fix torched church
Rabbi who is crowdfunding rehabilitation of Church of the Multiplication says Israeli Orthodoxy has lost its Jewish sensitivity to other faiths
By Elhanan Miller
Ashkenazic Chief Rabbi David Lau (L) and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef. (photo credit: Flash90)
June 11, 2015, 6:51 am
Chief Rabbi: No intent to fire Efrat rabbi Shlomo Riskin
David Lau denies Rabbinate seeks to dismiss liberal leader, says the issue has been ‘blown out of proportion’
By Gedalyah Reback
Lindenbaum Seminary (Midrasha) in Jerusalem. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 14, 2015, 5:19 pm
Champion for religious women’s rights dies at 76
Colleagues, Jewish leader praise the late Belda Lindenbaum, founder of an eponymous Orthodox army-study program
By JTA
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