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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 434

Michael Malkieli

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
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
Shas MK Michael Malchieli reacts during a meeting of the Arrangements Committee at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on June 9, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
July 17, 2023, 7:33 pm
Bill seeks to strengthen rabbinical courts’ jurisdiction over child support
Opposition lawmakers say draft amendment compromises women’s position and is part of a slide toward theocracy
By Canaan Lidor
File: Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend a ceremony selling hametz (food containing leavening) to Arab Israeli Mr Jaber before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 4, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 4, 2023, 9:41 am
Knesset votes to postpone election for new chief rabbis
Heated race delayed until spring of 2024 as Shas reportedly scrambles to choose candidate
By ToI Staff
MK Moshe Arbel arrives for the opening session of the Knesset in Jerusalem on November 15, 2022 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 17, 2023, 2:23 pm
Replacing Deri, Shas appoints Moshe Arbel to head health, interior ministries
Haredi party’s Council of Torah Sages says decision a temporary one until Knesset approves legislation permitting Deri to return to role despite his criminal convictions
By Ash Obel
Illustrative: Immigrants fleeing from war zones in the Ukraine arrive at the Israeli immigration and absorption office, at the Ben Gurion airport near Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2022. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
March 8, 2023, 7:26 pm
Interior Ministry proposes law to restrict passports for new immigrants
Legislation would only allow new arrivals to receive documentation after residing in Israel for 1 year; ministry says some exploit benefits without settling down
By ToI Staff
Members of the Hebrew Israelites Community of the southern city of Dimona protest against deportation orders given to some of their members, Habima Square, Tel Aviv, June 1, 2021. Th banner says, 'We are an integral part of the People of Israel.' (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
February 25, 2023, 12:34 pm
Court tells government to reconsider deportation of Hebrew Israelites
Judge says while no formal agreement was reached, community members were repeatedly led to believe by the state that they would be given citizenship
By ToI Staff
Shas MK Michael Malkieli arrives for coalition talks at a hotel in Jerusalem on November 17, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 9, 2023, 9:40 am
Ministry in charge of earthquake preparedness said in ‘chaos,’ without leadership
Acting interior minister Malkieli has reportedly not visited offices since replacing disqualified Deri 2 weeks ago, as coalition standoff with top court hampers emergency readiness
By Michael Bachner
Aryeh Deri speaks during a Shas party faction meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2023, 12:28 pm
Hinting at plans to return, Deri temporarily fills his vacated ministerial posts
Shas’s Michael Malkieli named acting interior minister, Yoav Ben-Tzur acting health minister, as Deri’s dismissal takes effect; positions must be permanently filled within 3 months
By ToI Staff
Incoming Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli speaks at his inauguration ceremony at his ministry headquarters in Jerusalem on January 1, 2023. (Courtesy/Religious Services Ministry)
January 1, 2023, 10:47 pm
Incoming religious services minister pledges to strengthen Rabbinate, boost salaries
Michael Malkieli also vows to expand powers of rabbinic courts; Shas leader Aryeh Deri says party paid a political price to get the ministry
By Judah Ari Gross
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