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United Torah Judaism MKs Moshe Gafni (left) and Uri Maklev attend a National Security Committee meeting at the Knesset on February 9, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 6, 2026, 2:19 am
Veteran Haredi MK Moshe Gafni to be removed as leader of UTJ’s Degel HaTorah faction
Gafni and MK Uri Maklev won’t run in October 27 election, with rabbinical leader saying it is time to ‘refresh’ party list; shake-up said driven by internal dispute over military draft
By ToI Staff
Noam party leader Avi Maoz speaks in the Knesset, March 31, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 8, 2025, 8:00 pm
Coalition revives contentious bid to limit Law of Return; this time, it may pass
An amendment that would deny people with only one Jewish grandparent the automatic right to immigrate to Israel is expected to be approved when it is discussed again in two months
By Zev Stub
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich leads a faction meeting for his Religious Zionism party at the Knesset in Jerusalem, March 17, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 22, 2025, 6:07 pm
‘Send your children to fight’: Smotrich spars with Haredi MKs over hostages, IDF
Dispute among coalition members sparked after Shas and United Torah Judaism lawmakers slam finance minister for saying that ‘returning the hostages is not the most important thing’
By Sam Sokol
Heavy traffic on the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv, May 30, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 30, 2024, 7:58 pm
Massive traffic as central Israel highway closes for 24 hours under Haredi pressure
Major project to install pedestrian bridge over Ayalon Highway carried out overnight Thursday-Friday as ultra-Orthodox prevent work on weekend, which would violate Shabbat
By Stuart Winer
Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Heritage Meir Porush, center, in Jerusaelm on May 21, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 20, 2023, 12:03 pm
United Torah Judaism says it won’t vote with coalition in protest of missing funding
Coalition party says its government offices have not yet received cash promised in budget negotiations last month
By ToI Staff
Relatives and friends of Holocaust survivors place flowers on names of concentration camps seen on the floor of the Hall of Remembrance at Yad Vashem on Holocaust Remembrance Day April 12, 2018. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 16, 2023, 2:04 pm
Ahead of annual memorial day, 147,199 Holocaust survivors living in Israel
Figure includes 521 survivors who immigrated from Ukraine after Russian invasion; around 15,000 died over previous year; average age of survivors is 85
By ToI Staff
Likud party chairman Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset plenum in Jerusalem on November 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
December 28, 2022, 9:16 am
UTJ inks coalition deal with Likud, ending internal squabbling ahead of swearing in
Agreement says Haredi party will get Housing Ministry and newly rebranded Jerusalem and Jewish Tradition Ministry, 3 deputy ministers and chairmanship of 4 Knesset committees
By Michael Bachner
Prime Minister Naftali Bennett speaks to reporters at the Knesset on November 4, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 5, 2021, 9:31 am
Coalition leaders fete approval of budgets, putting wind in their sails
PM declares Israel now ‘back on track’ after Knesset approves first state budget in over 3 years; Meretz minister says gov’t can get on with ‘normal life,’ but warns of pitfalls
By ToI Staff
Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana speaks during a conference in Jerusalem on August 1, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 27, 2021, 5:00 pm
Plan for major kashrut reform advances through Knesset committee
Ultra-Orthodox lawmakers fume over proposal, which would open up kosher certification to private agencies
By Amy Spiro
United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni, at the opening event of its election campaign, ahead of the Israeli elections, in Jerusalem, on February 12, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 25, 2021, 12:55 am
United Torah Judaism angry at Netanyahu for sending its voters to Smotrich
Though ultra-Orthodox Shas and UTJ are expected to keep their Knesset strength, they had expected a better showing; ‘He walked all over us,’ one MK says of PM
By ToI Staff
Deputy Transportation Minister Uri Maklev holds a face mask during a press conference at the Transportation Ministry in Jerusalem on July 8, 2020. (Olivier Fitoussi/ Flash90)
December 27, 2020, 10:02 pm
MK warns of spiritual side effects as vaccination drive continues on Shabbat
All 4 HMOs vaccinate over-60s on sabbath; rabbis say clinics’ computers violate rules, and they’re unlikely to give approval if there isn’t 24-hour effort on weekdays
By Nathan Jeffay
Prof. Moti Ravid (Arielinson / Wikipedia)
October 8, 2020, 8:12 pm
Bnei Brak hospital chief resigns after saying Hasidic public ‘killing people’
Lashed for his comments on widespread flouting of virus rules, Moti Ravid insists he was referring to ‘extremist sects’ in the ultra-Orthodox community
By ToI Staff
Benjamin Netanyahu, right, listens to Yaakov Litzman at the start of the the weekly cabinet meeting at the prime minister's office in Jerusalem, January 6, 2019. (Gali Tibbon/Pool via AP)
August 12, 2020, 7:43 pm
UTJ leader said to tell party MKs that Netanyahu must be reined in
Housing Minister Yaakov Litzman reportedly calls to vote against bill seen as preventing elections, in bid to pressure PM for yeshiva funding
By ToI Staff
Blue and White's Tehila Friedman speaks at a conference in Jerusalem on February 11, 2019. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
June 22, 2020, 7:26 pm
New lawmakers sworn in under controversial law
Seven MKs enter Knesset to take up seats vacated by ministers, but one joins the opposition instead of siding with the government
By ToI Staff
Aryeh Deri, leader of the ultra-Orthodox Jewish Shas party, seen with United Torah Judaism's Yaakov Litzman at a "Sheva Brachot" event for Deri's daughter, soon after her marriage in Jerusalem, December 23, 2015. At right is Deri's wife Yaffa; at left is former Shas MK Ariel Atias (Yaacov Cohen/FLASH90)
May 31, 2020, 6:50 am
How ultra-Orthodox parties became the biggest winners in Israel’s new government
While others were distracted by annexations, rotations and newfangled ministries, Shas and UTJ quietly won control over key ministries and major bottlenecks of economic policy
By Haviv Rettig Gur
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