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Michael Malkieli

Rabbi Zevadia Cohen (Religious Services Ministry)
April 26, 2026, 10:23 pm
Shas-backed candidate Zevadia Cohen appointed new chief rabbi of Tel Aviv
Rabbi selected by a 64-member committee after receiving the support of Mayor Ron Huldai
By Rossella Tercatin
MK Moshe Gafni, left, with MK Aryeh Deri at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 13, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 30, 2025, 8:14 pm
Shas, Degel HaTorah trade barbs in fight for control of Jerusalem religious council
Haredi parties battle for control of capital’s religious bureaucracy, leading to boycotts of coalition legislation as form of leverage
By Sam Sokol
Likud's Benjamin Netanyahu, right, with UTJ MK Moshe Gafni in the Knesset on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 18, 2025, 4:14 am
After quitting government, Haredim launch scathing attacks on PM, national religious MKs
‘The ones who are leading the war against Torah students are the religious Zionists,’ says UTJ’s Gafni, arguing it was a mistake to prioritize judicial overhaul over conscription bill
By Sam Sokol
Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli announces the Shas party's decision to quit Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government, July 16, 2025. (Yaakov Cohen)
July 16, 2025, 11:17 pm
Shas bolts gov’t for failing to enshrine Haredi non-enlistment in law, remains part of PM’s coalition
Council of Torah Sages decries ‘persecution against yeshiva students,’ instructs party representatives ‘to immediately resign from all positions in the government’
By Sam Sokol
ILLUSTRATIVE — New immigrants from North America arrive on a special aliyah flight arranged by the Nefesh B'Nefesh organization, at Ben Gurion International Airport on August 14, 2019. (Flash90)
July 9, 2025, 10:25 pm
Bill to limit Law of Return shot down despite support from ultra-Orthodox MKs
Controversial legislation would have revoked right of non-Jewish grandchildren of Jews to immigrate to Israel and automatically obtain citizenship
By Sam Sokol
Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a session ain the Knesset plenum, April 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 9, 2025, 10:57 pm
Religious Services minister backs down from bid to control appointments of city rabbis
Following High Court petition by Tzohar and ITIM groups, Michael Malkieli rolls back regulations guaranteeing him control of selection committees
By Rossella Tercatin
Defense Minister Israel Katz and MK Yuli Edelstein discuss ultra-Orthodox conscription at a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, January 14, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 16, 2025, 6:55 pm
Panel head Edelstein rejects Katz plan for gradual increase in Haredi conscription
‘The committee I chair will only issue a law for recruitment in high numbers, with a corresponding increase in the scope of recruitment and sanctions,’ Likud MK declares
By Sam Sokol
Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a plenum session on the so-called Rabbis Bill in the Knesset, January 15, 2025. (Goldberg/Flash90)
January 16, 2025, 5:22 pm
After yearlong strife, Knesset passes Shas’s controversial ‘Rabbis Law’
New law on funding salaries of religious officials ‘promotes the politicization of the rabbinate,’ warns Rabbi David Stav of the liberal Tzohar rabbinic group
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: 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
Then-Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a plenum session on the so-called Rabbis Bill in the Knesset, November 12, 2024. (Goldberg/Flash90)
November 12, 2024, 6:58 pm
Inside the year-long struggle to pass Shas’s controversial ‘Rabbis Bill’
Critics say legislation that would allow the religious services minister to allocate additional funds to religious councils is ‘essentially a jobs bill with a blank check’
By Sam Sokol
FILE — A woman arranging voting slips for the Chief Rabbinate election. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
September 9, 2024, 9:05 pm
Lawmakers vote to extend term of Chief Rabbinate Council until end of 2024
Critics dismiss law as attempt to allow conservative religious elements to gain greater control over composition of the Chief Rabbi Election Assembly and sideline women
By Sam Sokol
Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a session ain the Knesset plenum, April 15, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 28, 2024, 9:58 pm
After ‘Rabbis Law’ stymied, Shas minister advances appointments of municipal rabbis
Michael Malkieli’s spokesman says he doesn’t believe Haredi party ditched effort to pass bill despite Ben Gvir’s opposition, but ‘there’s an understanding’ it can’t clear Knesset
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
Shas party member Michael Malkieli at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 17, 2024, 7:35 pm
New regulations would expand Haredi control over municipal rabbis, sideline women
After Knesset bill nixed, Religious Services Ministry pushes similar changes that critics say would ’emasculate local authorities and completely centralize role of municipal rabbi’
By Sam Sokol
Israeli soldiers walk past houses destroyed by Hamas terrorists in Kibbutz Be'eri, October 14, 2023. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 23, 2023, 10:43 pm
Families of Be’eri massacre victims say religious officials delaying cremation
Relatives say Religious Services Ministry, led by a Haredi minister, is dithering on release of bodies
By Canaan Lidor
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