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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 591

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Zencity offices in Tel Aviv. (Courtesy, Zencity)
January 23, 2025, 8:35 am
Israeli-founded Zencity buys UK tech for state agencies to listen to residents’ needs
Zencity uses AI and big data to help local governments hear voices of residents to help tackle pressing issues facing communities: housing, public safety, and transportation
By Sharon Wrobel
Anti-government protesters and police stand next to the Jerusalem Rabbinate and Religious Council, May 4, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 20, 2024, 1:58 pm
Critics charge new regulations will hand Shas control over municipal rabbinates
‘They will actually control all the local rabbinates, all the local rabbis in Israel,’ says Rabbi David Stav from the liberal Tzohar rabbinic group
By Sam Sokol
Israeli State Comptroller Matanyahu Englman attends the Eli Horowitz Conference for Economy and Society, organized by Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem, May 22, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 16, 2024, 8:17 pm
State comptroller finds wage gap, underrepresentation of women in local government
Report also finds persistence of ‘real gaps in all areas of life between Ethiopians and the rest of the Jewish population’ decades after primary waves of immigration
By Sam Sokol
MK Eli Dallal leads a joint meeting of the Special Committee for the Rights of the Child and the Special Committee for Combating Drug and Alcohol Abuse at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on April 19, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 17, 2024, 3:21 pm
Likud MKs slam revival of bill expanding Chief Rabbinate’s influence
MK charges Religious Zionism party reintroduced bill ‘like thieves in the night’; it would create hundreds of publicly funded jobs for Orthodox rabbis, erode women’s role
By Sam Sokol
Security forces and emergency personnel deploy at a site hit by rockets fired from southern Lebanon in the northern city of Kiryat Shmona, on May 5, 2024. (Jalaa MAREY / AFP)
May 23, 2024, 1:56 am
Government delays vote on rehabilitation plan for northern border towns
Cabinet to now vote Monday on proposal once details hashed out, with ministers and council heads criticizing plan; one minister says some money allocated to already funded projects
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu meets with municipal heads from cities and towns on Israel's northern border, May 19, 2024. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
May 20, 2024, 3:24 pm
Meeting local leaders, PM vows to restore security to north, refuses to talk timeline
In meeting described by Hebrew media as ‘stormy,’ Netanyahu declines to say when tens of thousands of evacuees can return, saying that would telegraph plans to Hezbollah
By ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
Kosher McDonald's restaurant in Ashkelon, Israel. (Creative Commons via JTA)
May 19, 2024, 5:53 pm
Rehovot residents protest after police repeatedly shut McDonald’s on Shabbat
Locals say newly opened restaurant is being targeted for selective enforcement, but city maintains it’s maintaining status quo given fast food joint’s location
By ToI Staff
An undated photo of a bus running in Tel Aviv on the Sabbath. (Tel Aviv Municipality)
September 11, 2023, 3:45 pm
As liberal cities expand Shabbat bus service, head-on crash with coalition may loom
Local officials say more than just young partyers are taking buses to and from Tel Aviv, and are girding for a fight should the Haredi-backed government try to run it off the road
By Aviv Lavie
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