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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 372

religious Zionism

Families of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and activists protest for their release outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 8, 2024, 3:36 pm
In apparent U-turn, several leading religious Zionist rabbis call for hostage deal
Signatories include close advisers to Smotrich; letter urges government to reach ‘responsible’ agreement to free captives as ‘Jewish, moral and national duty of the first order’
By ToI Staff
Adam Hajaj speaks during a rally for hostages in Gaza in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 12, 2024, 3:54 pm
October 7 trauma reconnects Israelis with a 2,000-year-old Jewish day of mourning
Thousands of synagogues prepare to feature lamentations about the Hamas atrocities, on Tisha B’Av, a fast day that commemorates historical – and now contemporary – tragedies
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends a Lag B'Omer celebration in Safed, on May 26, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
July 22, 2024, 8:05 pm
Top religious Zionist rabbis call for scrapping ‘dangerous’ hostage deal
Clerics with sway over coalition’s hard-line flank argue risk posed by possible agreement trumps imperative to free captives; senior UTJ lawmaker Gafni takes opposite position
By ToI Staff
Settlement activists at a conference in Jerusalem to promote the construction of Jewish settlements in Gaza go up on stage in dedicated groups that seek to establish six new settlements in the coastal enclave, January 28, 2024. (Courtesy the Nachala Settlement Movement)
January 30, 2024, 4:18 pm
At packed Jerusalem conference, religious far-right dreams big of resettling Gaza
At the return to Gush Katif extravaganza, a determined community makes plans to ‘right the injustice’ of the 2005 Disengagement – regardless of Israel’s troubled global standing
By Jeremy Sharon
Rabbi David Stav, cofounder and chairman of the Tzohar rabbinical organization. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)
December 24, 2023, 2:49 pm
A leading Religious Zionist rabbi hopes a post-Oct. 7 Israeli faith resurgence endures
As Israel fights its enemies, Tzohar co-founder Rabbi David Stav sees Jewish Israelis turning to their religion and unifying around it — but he worries about a post-war slump
By Ben Sales
A composite image, from left, of Justice Minister Yariv Levin at a government conference at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 15, 2023; Supreme Court Chief Justice Esther Hayut at a hearing in Jerusalem on December 1, 2022; and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 29, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 6, 2023, 5:07 pm
Top rabbis imply government wouldn’t have to obey potential court rulings against it
Rabbis, some with links to far-right parties, say ‘majority, as reflected in elections,’ is the only legitimate authority, but also push sides to try and reach compromise
By ToI Staff
Activists protest against the government's planned judicial overhaul, outside the ultraconservative Har Hamor Yeshiva in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Har Homa, July 5, 2023. The sign, featuring leading members of the government, states 'You are the messianics of the destruction.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 17, 2023, 4:42 pm
Protest groups turn up heat on ‘messianic’ settlers accused of driving overhaul
Activists demonstrate in settlements and highlight anti-Palestinian violence, making common cause with established leftist groups but risking alienating supporters on the right
By Jeremy Sharon
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
Rabbi Meir Kahana, in November 2022. (Halavi/ Wikimedia Commons)
June 4, 2023, 9:56 pm
Zionist rabbis tap Meir Kahana, reserves commander, as their pick for chief rabbi
Nomination seen as surprising since it knocks out hardliner favored by Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich; Haredi factions yet to coalesce around nominee ahead of vote this fall
By Canaan Lidor
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
A woman at the annual Gay Pride Parade in Jerusalem, on June 2, 2022, holds up a sign with the biblical phrase 'Love thy neighbor as thyself.' (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 1, 2023, 9:01 am
Gay and Orthodox: Book charts the rise of a once unthinkable dual identity in Israel
‘Queer Judaism,’ a new work from academic Orit Avishai, explores the rapid transformation over just two decades of the visibility and activism of LGBTQ religious Jews
By Amy Spiro
Young students learn in a classroom at the opening of the new school year in a school for ultra-Orthodox Jewish boys in Beit Shemesh, on August 28, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 22, 2023, 11:21 am
Orthodox schools said to receive millions to compensate for previous budget cuts
Education Ministry says NIS 12 million in retroactive funding earmarked for Haredi and Religious Zionist institutions that were fiscally affected by Bennett-Lapid government’s cuts
By Ash Obel
Israelis wave flags during a protest against plans by Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government to overhaul the judicial system, outside the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 13, 2023 (AP Photo/Ohad Zwigenberg)
February 14, 2023, 10:36 pm
75 Israeli Orthodox leaders call for dialogue on judicial overhaul
Though many signatories of open letter have deep ties to settler movement, most are part of the more liberal wing of the religious Zionist community
By Judah Ari Gross
Illustrative: A tech development center in Herzliya, Oct 30, 2020. (Gili Yaari/Flash90)
December 27, 2022, 9:07 pm
In pushback at discrimination law, prominent Israeli firms vow to boycott bigots
Tech, law and insurance firms, local authorities say they won’t serve entities that discriminate against certain customers; outgoing tourism minister warns move may deter tourists
By Sharon Wrobel and Stuart Winer
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)
December 26, 2022, 1:26 am
Rabbi Druckman lauded and mourned by politicians as friend and counsel
Leaders eulogize spiritual leader of religious Zionist movement; Netanyahu laments ‘great light’ that has been extinguished
By Ash Obel
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