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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 592

Shlomo Aviner

Rabbi Shlomo Aviner teaches at the Western Wall in the Old City of Jerusalem, on January 3, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 11, 2025, 9:25 pm
IDF officers allow rabbi and aide to meet soldiers in Syria without proper approval
Military counters report suggesting civilian hikers allowed into Syria, but says Rabbi Shlomo Aviner, 82, was permitted to meet with soldiers earlier this month, ahead of Passover
By Emanuel Fabian
Police stand in front of demonstrators from the Lehava Jewish extremist group at Damascus Gate in Jerusalem, on April 22, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 13, 2021, 2:49 am
Prominent rabbis protest planned designation of far-right Lehava as terror group
Leading spiritual leaders say the organization, which works to stifle intermarriage and LGBT rights, ‘must be allowed to continue its important activities’
By ToI Staff
Then-Shin Bet chief Nadav Argaman (left) and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, April 11, 2021 (Courtesy)
June 6, 2021, 1:40 pm
When Shin Bet warns of political violence, Israel’s history requires we listen
25 years after the Rabin assassination, the man charged with protecting Israel and its leaders from internal security threats fears a repetition. His warning must be heeded
By David Horovitz
Plastic waste discarded on a beach in Israel. (Screenshot)
September 29, 2019, 1:44 pm
Rabbis join call to cut single-use plastic, starting with religious holidays
Ben-Gurion University student persuades 30 religious leaders to sign letter citing dangers of plastics to health and environment as Israelis gear up to celebrate Jewish New Year
By Aviv Lavie
A scene from the 1994 movie 'Little Rascals.' (screen capture: YouTube)
July 5, 2019, 1:57 pm
Little rascals, big problems: 8 things to know for July 5
A rabbi decides politics should be a he-man girl haters club; the right finds itself in Liberman’s vise and Hamas frets over another wayward son
By Joshua Davidovich
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked speaks during her farewell ceremony, at the Ministry of Justice offices in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019 (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 5, 2019, 10:06 am
Shaked rejects rabbi’s comments: Women can do everything, including lead a party
Former justice minister responds after prominent Rabbi Shlomo Aviner says politics has ‘no place for the female role’ in explaining opposition to her leading the religious right
By ToI Staff
Justice Minister Ayelet Shaked attends a Constitution, Law, and Justice Committee meeting in the Israeli parliament on July 9, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 4, 2019, 6:43 pm
Rejecting rabbi’s comments, Jewish Home says it backs women in politics
Prominent Rabbi Shlomo Aviner says politics has ‘no place for the female role’ in explaining opposition to Ayelet Shaked leading the religious right
By ToI Staff
Ayelet Shaked speaks during her farewell ceremony, at the Justice Ministry offices in Jerusalem on June 4, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
July 4, 2019, 1:32 pm
Rabbi: Shaked can’t lead party, because politics is ‘no place for a woman’
Shlomo Aviner says ex-justice minister ‘really great,’ but must not be named URWP chief even if it costs right-wing votes
By ToI Staff
Smoke and flames rise during a fire at the Notre Dame Cathedral in central Paris on April 15, 2019. (Hubert Hitier/AFP)
April 17, 2019, 11:52 pm
Radical rabbi says Notre Dame fire retribution for 13th-century Talmud burning
Shlomo Aviner, who moved to Israel from France in the 1960s, suggests fire that gutted iconic church may have been divine retribution for burning of Jewish manuscripts in 1242
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Members of the LGBT community and supporters participate in a demonstration against a Knesset bill amendment denying surrogacy for same-sex couples, outside the supreme court in Jerusalem on July 23, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 27, 2018, 8:40 am
200 Israeli rabbis slam LGBT rights groups for ‘turning perverts into heroes’
Letter from Orthodox clerics in defense of Jerusalem Chief Rabbi Aryeh Stern says children raised by gay couples have ‘strange and unnatural lives’
By Michael Bachner
Segregated-gender Orthodox prayer in the Robinson's Arch pluralistic prayer platform at the Western Wall, July 13, 2018. (Courtesy)
July 19, 2018, 3:22 pm
Western Wall egalitarian area used daily for gender-segregated Orthodox prayer
Students from two Old City yeshivas bring in temporary ‘mehitza’ dividers for Orthodox crowds of up to 100 at site set aside for pluralistic prayer
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Safed Chief Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu in Jerusalem, May 24, 2017. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
February 1, 2018, 2:16 am
Rabbi who opposes female service claims ‘war’ being waged with IDF
Shmuel Eliyahu says army agenda on women’s integration is ‘unhinged’; 100 rabbis write to defense minister in support of Eliyahu, Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Gadi Eisenkot, left, and head of the IDF military rabbinate, Eyal Karim, at a ceremony in Jerusalem, November 1, 2017. (Marc Israel Sellem/Flash90)
January 24, 2018, 8:10 pm
Liberman lets IDF chaplain meet with chief rabbi on women’s enlistment row
Defense minister says army wants to express displeasure at comments by prominent rabbis against integration of female soldiers, demands they take back statements
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends the cornerstone laying ceremony for Nezer HaTalmud Yeshiva in Beitar Illit on September 19, 2016. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
January 22, 2018, 1:43 pm
Amid women’s enlistment row, army nixes meet with chief rabbi
Chief of staff reportedly orders IDF chief rabbi to cancel scheduled sit-down with Israel’s Sephardi chief rabbi over criticism of mixed-gender units
By ToI Staff
Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks at Jerusalem's Teddy Stadium on April 13, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 20, 2018, 11:34 am
Liberman bans chief rabbi from IDF events over anti-women comments
Defense minister says there’s ‘no place’ for statements by three top rabbis against female integration in military
By ToI Staff
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