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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 642

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Right-wing activists hold up a banner reading in Hebrew "67 - Jerusalem in our hands; 2025 - Gaza in our hands" below another banner that reads "Without a Naqba, there is no victory" as they gather with Israeli flags outside the Damascus Gate of the walled Old City of Jerusalem on May 26, 2025, during a flag march for Jerusalem Day. (AHMAD GHARABLI / AFP)
May 29, 2025, 3:17 am
UAE issues rare warning to Israel after summoning envoy over Jerusalem Flag March
Official tells ToI ‘it’s utterly unfathomable Israel allowed annual spectacle of unchecked violence to proceed amid Gaza carnage,’ says Abu Dhabi expects ‘decisive steps to end it’
By Jacob Magid
Israelis from different walks of life meet at the International Convention Center in Jerusalem under the aegis of Rivon4 (Rivon4)
November 12, 2024, 8:17 am
Upstart grassroots org calls for mending societal rifts as Israel begins its ‘4th quarter’
Set on building a mass movement for change, Rivon4 urges Israelis from all sectors to imagine — and act for — a united future
By Sue Surkes
Rabbi Moshe Lichtenstein, head of the Har Etzion yeshiva, speaks during a protest of right-wing demonstrators against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Jerusalem, on March 11, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 30, 2023, 7:35 pm
Head of prestigious yeshiva: Settler riots a moral stain on us all, contravene Torah
Rabbi Mosheh Lichtenstein of Har Etzion in West Bank: Violence in Palestinian villages ‘driven by dark forces in people’s souls,’ ‘pulls rug out from under our claim to morality’
By ToI Staff
Right-wing Israelis attend a rally in support of plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem, Thursday, April 27, 2023. (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
April 29, 2023, 4:14 pm
Pro-overhaul protest showed the right’s strengths — and the government’s weakness
Likud voters want gov’t to focus on declining economy, Haredi parties want draft exemption law, religious Zionist voters want continued judicial reform. Can PM satisfy them all?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Hundreds of religious, left-wing Jews attend the Smol Emuni conference in Jerusalem on January 23, 2023. (Gilad Kavalerchik/Smol Emuni)
January 25, 2023, 12:41 pm
Eyeing their community’s rightward shift, left-wing religious Jews form new movement
Grassroots group ‘Smol Emuni’ — literally the left-wing faithful — holds its first conference in Jerusalem, attracting hundreds of people from across the religious spectrum
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustration of an empty classroom in a school in Mevaseret Zion, August 27, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 24, 2023, 2:52 pm
Transgender boy to be removed from religious school against parents’ wishes
Parents of 8-year-old and those of classmates say they’ve been informed of decision to send him to a different school, but Education Ministry denies anything has been resolved
By ToI Staff
Asa Kasher attends a conference at the Bar-Ilan University near Tel Aviv, June 11, 2017. (Flash90)
November 5, 2022, 1:24 am
Author of IDF ethics code slams religious nationalist, Haredi camps as ‘mutations’
Speaking after far-right, ultra-Orthodox election successes, Asa Kasher says they represent a ‘malignant’ transition from historic image of Jewish people; Facebook removes his post
By ToI Staff
Givat Shmuel on February 10, 2021. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
October 28, 2022, 11:57 am
Furious at Bennett’s betrayal, these national religious voters won’t allow a repeat
After backing Yamina in 2021, Givat Shmuel residents feel burned that their votes were used to oust Netanyahu; many plan to hold their noses and vote for Likud or Religious Zionism
By Jacob Magid
Illustrative: Children cross a street after leaving school in Beit El on May 1, 2019. (Gili Yaari /Flash90)
September 16, 2022, 5:46 am
Defying ministry, rabbis tell school to put transgender boy in female-only class
Religious figures wade into case that has roiled religious elementary school in Givat Shmuel, claiming that Jewish law forbids cross-dressing
By ToI Staff
Illustrative photo: Soldiers in the mixed gender Cheetah Battalion participate in a squad exercise in southern Israel on November 16, 2015. (IDF Spokesperson's Unit/Flickr)
June 2, 2022, 11:31 pm
Rabbis urge IDF chief to stop women’s integration into combat units
Statement signed by diverse group of national religious leaders, days after IDF says women will be able to serve in elite search and rescue unit, claims such moves will divide army
By ToI Staff
Religious Jews are escorted by Israeli police as they tour the Temple Mount in Jerusalem's Old City during the Jewish holiday of Sukkot on September 24, 2018. (Sliman Khader/Flash90)
June 2, 2022, 8:20 pm
Fighting rabbinic ban, Jewish activists push Temple Mount prayer toward mainstream
How a group of determined activists has been reinterpreting Jewish law, shifting public discourse and challenging the status quo at one of the most contentious places on Earth
By Judah Ari Gross
President Isaac Herzog addresses a ceremony to mark the 40th death of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook on February 15, 2022 ( Amos Ben-Gershom/GPO)
February 16, 2022, 4:03 am
Herzog heckled at national religious confab for raising death of elderly Palestinian
President tells meeting marking 40th anniversary of death of Rabbi Zvi Yehuda Kook that ‘Jewish morality cannot be indifferent’ to the case of Omar As’ad
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: A firefighter is silhouetted against a fire burning outside the village of Roqueiro, near Oleiros, Portugal, September 14, 2020 (AP Photo/Sergio Azenha, File)
October 29, 2021, 3:47 pm
Rabbis urge PM to make Israel full partner in global climate battle
21 rabbis sign letter saying climate crisis now an issue of ‘pikuach nefesh’ — the Jewish law that puts preserving life above most other religious rules
By Sue Surkes
Rabbi Chaim Druckman attends the campaign launch of the right-wing Yamina party, ahead of the Israeli general elections, February 12, 2020. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
April 15, 2021, 2:49 pm
Top national religious rabbi Chaim Druckman hospitalized due to heart failure
Spiritual leader of yeshiva and religious Zionism party said to be doing better after overnight treatment; lawmakers call on public to pray for 88-year-old’s health
By ToI Staff
Religious Zionism party chairman Bezalel Smotrich (L) and candidate Itamar Ben Gvir celebrate at the party headquarters in Modi'in on election night, March 23, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
March 24, 2021, 5:52 pm
Entering Knesset, far-rightists want to legalize outposts, fight ‘LGBT agenda’
Religious Zionism will be most extreme party in parliament in decades, with lawmakers who back expelling ‘disloyal’ Arabs and vow to ‘put the Torah first’
By Jacob Magid
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