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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of two babies who died in an unlicensed daycare, in Jerusalem, January 19, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
January 20, 2026, 3:38 am
Haredi extremists riot against autopsies of babies who died at unlicensed Jerusalem daycare
Police clash with hundreds of protesters who burn garbage bins, block roads in capital and Beit Shemesh, as parents plan to appeal ruling in favor of authorities’ request for operation
By ToI Staff
Rescue and security forces work at the scene of a mass-casualty incident at an illegal daycare in Jerusalem's Haredi-majority Romema neighborhood, on January 19, 2026. (Goldberg/Flash90)
January 19, 2026, 4:31 pm
2 babies die in incident at unlicensed Jerusalem daycare; 3 caregivers detained
53 children injured at daycare in the Haredi Romema neighborhood; video shows babies, toddlers sleeping underneath toilets, in closets; hundreds protest planned autopsies
By ToI Staff
Children going into 1st grade attend school on their first day of the new academic year at the Pola school in Jerusalem, on September 1, 2021. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
January 26, 2022, 12:22 am
Depression, anxiety in children jumped during pandemic, study shows
Children forced to quarantine multiple times were more likely to exhibit violence toward friends and family and outbursts of anger, according to National Council for the Child
By Amy Spiro
Illustrative: Israeli schoolchildren, August 27, 2013. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)
January 14, 2020, 2:03 pm
Nearly a third of Israel’s children live below the poverty line — report
Among Arab and ultra-Orthodox communities, nearly two-thirds are considered poor, says National Council for the Child; Rivlin calls figures ‘very worrying’
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
A man looks through garbage in the Florentin neighborhood of Tel Aviv. November 12, 2019 (Sara Klatt/FLASH90)
December 31, 2019, 4:13 pm
1.8 million Israelis, half of them children, live in poverty — government
National Insurance Institute report ranks country’s child poverty rates second to bottom in OECD; MK decries ‘one of the deepest social crises’ Israel has known
By ToI Staff
Ina Skivenko, a kindergarten teacher suspected of causing the death of 18-month-old Yasmin Vinta at a kindergarten in Petah Tikva, is brought for a court hearing at a Petah Tikva court on June 3, 2018. (Roy Alima/Flahs90)
July 14, 2019, 6:44 pm
Daycare teacher sentenced to 17 years for smothering toddler to death
Ina Skivenko also ordered to pay NIS 120,000 damages to parents of Yasmin Vinta
By Stuart Winer
The scene where a baby boy was 'forgotten' in a car in Ashdod on May 30, 2016. The baby died of heat prostration, confirmed by paramedics at the scene. (Flash90)
July 22, 2016, 7:42 pm
For 5th time since May, Israeli child dies of heat in parked car
Temperature inside cars can reach over 100°F in summer; local firms working on apps to remind drivers children are still in back seat
By JTA
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