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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 465

Moshe Gafni

UTJ MK Moshe Gafni (left), chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, presides over a committee meeting on education funding on December 31, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesman)
January 2, 2025, 11:45 pm
Opposition furious at 11th-hour transfer of hundreds of millions to Haredi education
‘We didn’t have time to read, understand, study the material,’ complains MK Beliak, day after Finance Committee pushed through extra budgets. Opposition weighs High Court petition
By Sam Sokol
Rabbi Kalman Ber attends a vote for the new Chief Ashkenazi rabbi, at the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 31, 2024, 8:02 pm
Ultra-Orthodox-backed Kalman Ber chosen as Ashkenazi chief rabbi in runoff
Top Netanya cleric beats out Rabbi Micha Halevi, who drew anger from religious Zionists by reneging on promise to stay out of race, after initial balloting ended in tie
By Mati Wagner and ToI Staff
Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 23, 2024, 8:58 pm
UTJ organ Hamodia publishes op-ed blaming southern kibbutz residents for October 7
Lawmakers blast article in which former candidate for Haredi party claimed left-leaning southerners brought disaster on themselves, need forgiveness for blaming government
By ToI Staff
Shas party leader Aryeh Deri pictured at a faction meeting in the Knesset on February 13, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 10, 2024, 2:04 am
Amid squabbles, lawmakers in government no longer take its survival for granted
As parties turn on each other and trust in the prime minister erodes, coalition politicians are increasingly voicing concern their fractious alliance may not last
By Sam Sokol
MK Moshe Gafni chairs a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, July 2, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 8, 2024, 6:26 pm
As coalition tensions mount, top Haredi MK hints at potential dissolution of coalition
Growing discord within Netanyahu’s alliance of parties has some lawmakers questioning how long the government can last
By Sam Sokol
Hadash-Ta’al chairman Ahmad Tibi argues with National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir during a vote on the amended 2024 budget, March 13, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz, Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
March 13, 2024, 6:45 pm
Following rancorous debate, Knesset passes amended wartime budget
While Opposition Leader Lapid decries the most ‘sectoral, detached and profligate budget’ ever, Likud says legislation ‘guarantees the continuation of war until complete victory’
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 11, 2024, 8:47 am
Ultra-Orthodox party pans Netanyahu for issuing credit rating statement on Shabbat
Housing minister Goldknopf of United Torah Judaism calls PM’s response ‘inappropriate’; Finance Committee chair says it was ‘totally unnecessary’ and a colleague laments ‘disgrace’
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators burst into a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee to call for government action to free their relatives held hostage by Hamas in Gaza, January 22, 2024. At right is Gilad Korngold, whose son Tal Shoham was kidnapped from Kibbutz Be’eri and is still held in Gaza (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
January 22, 2024, 3:26 pm
Relatives of hostages burst into Knesset Finance Committee, demand government action
Protesters say they have been ‘forgotten’ as Netanyahu touts mysterious ‘initiative’ to free hostages held in Gaza but declines to elaborate
By Sam Sokol
An IDF serviceman stands outside a destroyed home in the Gaza border community of Kfar Aza on December 20, 2023. (Sam Sokol)
December 27, 2023, 8:55 pm
Gaza border reconstruction proposal wins backing from coalition, opposition MKs
Private legislation meant to spur southern comeback with large grants for returnees, tax discounts and creation of new community, as MKs wait for government to fund its own plan
By Sam Sokol
Knesset Finance Committee chair MK Moshe Gafni during a committee meeting at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 26, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 27, 2023, 3:59 pm
Top Haredi MK slams extension of central bank head’s term, saying he ‘hurt the weak’
After Moshe Gafni calls Amir Yaron a ‘bad governor,’ Bank of Israel urges the Knesset Finance Committee chairman to become ‘knowledgeable about the basics of the economy’
By Sharon Wrobel
File - Attorney-General Gali Baharav-Miara arrives to casts her ballot for the head of the Israel Bar Association at a voting station in Tel Aviv on June 20, 2023. (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
November 8, 2023, 12:25 am
AG freezes all coalition funds, deeming them budgetary source for war efforts
At hearing of Knesset Finance Committee, chair Moshe Gafni says he cannot authorize any transfer of coalition monies to war effort without request from Finance Minister Smotrich
By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn
MK Moshe Gafni leads a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, which he chairs, on October 23, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
November 5, 2023, 10:06 pm
Cabinet nixes vote to transfer NIS 300M to Haredi schools from wartime funds pool
Larger pool of coalition funds still unable to be redirected to war effort, as the Treasury has so far not initiated a request to pull them back into its general reserve
By Carrie Keller-Lynn
MK Moshe Gafni leads a meeting of the Knesset Finance Committee, which he chairs, on October 23, 2023. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
October 26, 2023, 3:34 pm
Brothers in Arms protest group okayed for tax break after shifting to aid mission
Knesset Finance Committee head Moshe Gafni sets aside tension with group that tried to torpedo judicial overhaul, force Haredi draft as it now scrambles to help those hurt by war
By Sue Surkes
Illustrative: The Mir Yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, September 19, 2023. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
October 3, 2023, 5:19 pm
OECD calls on Israel to end subsidies for yeshiva students, boost employment
Global organization finds ‘socioeconomic gaps remain wide,’ says Haredi and Arab communities underrepresented in high tech; also criticizes renewable energy efforts
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni speaks at a UTJ event in Kibbutz Hafetz Haim on September 30, 2023. (Screen capture/Twitter)
October 1, 2023, 3:13 am
Haredi MK: Yom Kippur scuffles prove anti-gov’t protesters waging ‘religious war’
Moshe Gafni says confrontations show activists ‘are not referring to judicial reform,’ claims warnings that reforms would harm economy disproved: ‘The economy is excellent’
By ToI Staff
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