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Edelstein: Haredi enlistment bill will include individual sanctions on draft dodgers
By
Sam Sokol
‘The effectiveness of the sanctions are what will make this law real or not,’ deputy AG tells key Knesset committee deliberating law
February 18, 2025, 9:33 pm
Edelstein: Haredi enlistment bill will include individual sanctions on draft dodgers
‘The effectiveness of the sanctions are what will make this law real or not,’ deputy AG tells key Knesset committee deliberating law
By
Sam Sokol
February 12, 2025, 12:03 am
Likud lawmakers hold conference calling for Haredi draft, sanctions on dodgers
Edelstein says passage of potent enlistment law would allow him to look wives and mothers of soldiers ‘in the eye’; Chikli calls for breaking Haredi ‘taboo’ against IDF service
By
Sam Sokol
January 29, 2025, 4:17 pm
After Shas ultimatum, Smotrich rejects ‘concessions’ on Haredi conscription bill
Recruiting currently exempt ultra-Orthodox men is ‘an existential national security necessity,’ minister declares; Haredi party members seek to downplay threat to tank coalition
By
Sam Sokol
January 28, 2025, 9:08 pm
Shas’s Deri gives government two months to pass law exempting ultra-Orthodox from IDF
If the status of yeshiva students is not settled by March ‘we’ll go to elections,’ he warns; Shas MK Taieb says his son will go to jail rather than enlist in IDF
By
Sam Sokol
January 28, 2025, 7:03 pm
Poll finds Israel leads high-income countries in religious nationalism
PEW study shows that religion is significantly more important to Israeli national identity than other states in similar economic category
By
Ariella Oldfield
January 27, 2025, 9:21 pm
Arresting yeshiva students for draft dodging will backfire, cabinet secretary warns
During debate on enlistment legislation, Fuchs says ‘process that will lead to the Haredim enlisting is a gradual one’ and must involve consensus
By
Sam Sokol
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
December 23, 2024, 1:22 pm
Treasury officials warn ultra-Orthodox draft exemption law will cost Israel dearly
Finance Ministry budgetary department says annual cost to economy due to current burden on reservists is $8 billion, but can be relieved by drafting more Haredi men to combat roles
By
Sam Sokol
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
December 11, 2024, 7:34 pm
Feminist groups decry law setting quota for women in assembly that elects chief rabbis
Billed as an effort to increase female representation, measure actually serves to disenfranchise female Torah scholars, say critics
By
Sam Sokol
November 22, 2024, 4:44 pm
IDF rabbinate opposes asking troops to sign form ‘unchaining’ wives in case of disaster
While conditional divorces can free women in case of a husband’s disappearance or loss of mental faculties in battle, rabbis say pushing such a document on soldiers may hurt morale
By
Mati Wagner
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
October 13, 2024, 10:25 pm
Shas chief Deri was aware state funds were going to party newspaper — report
AG probing Shas Minister Haim Biton after money meant for party-linked educational network allegedly used to pay salaries at Shas mouthpiece HaDerech
By
Sam Sokol
October 8, 2024, 6:00 pm
Following inconclusive vote, AG demands second round in chief rabbi election
Call for runoff comes after a single miscast ballot left rabbis Micha Halevi and Kalman Ber with 40 votes apiece in last Sunday’s Chief Rabbinical election
By
Sam Sokol
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
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