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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 475

Yaakov Ariel

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
Religious Zionism party head MK Bezalel Smotrich exits a coalition negotiation meeting with Shas party head Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem on November 13, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 14, 2022, 11:01 am
Smotrich increases pressure on Netanyahu to make him defense minister
As coalition negotiations heat up but with presumptive next PM said reluctant to give him post, far-right leader meets former IDF generals, gets backing from prominent rabbis
By Michael Bachner
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
The Israeli teen (L) suspected of killing Aisha Rabi in the Rishon Lezion Magistrate's Court on January 23, 2019. (YouTube/Screen capture)
January 31, 2019, 1:05 pm
Top rabbis raise money for defense of suspect in Palestinian woman’s killing
Request for donations from national Zionist leaders comes as family of Jewish teen alleged to have killed Aisha Rabi releases video asking for money for legal costs
By ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
Jewish, Muslim and Christian leaders from Israel and the Palestinian territories attend an interfaith summit in Spain in November 2016. (Media Department of the Spanish Ministry of Foreign Affairs)
November 19, 2016, 10:36 pm
Hamas-linked imam, Israel chief rabbi unite in call for peace
At Spain interfaith summit, Jewish, Muslim and Christian clergy denounce violence, vow to promote ‘life of mutual respect’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Yigal Levinstein speaking at the 'Zion and Jerusalem' convention, July 2016. (Screen capture: YouTube)
July 19, 2016, 4:38 pm
IDF mulls cutting ties with rabbi who called gays ‘deviants’
Yigal Levinstein, head of a prestigious premilitary academy, claimed the gay rights movement has ‘infiltrated the army’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Yaakov Ariel, chief rabbi of Ramat Gan, in August 2010. (photo credit: Kobi Gideon/Flash90)
May 15, 2014, 11:14 pm
Prominent rabbi slammed for forbidding lesbian tenants
Yaakov Ariel’s comments prompt justice minister to mull criminalizing discrimination in apartment rentals
By Gavriel Fiske
Female participants hold hands during a gay pride parade in Jerusalem (photo credit: Yossi Zamir/Flash90/File)
From the WebMay 15, 2014, 3:04 am
Ramat Gan rabbi: Don’t rent apartments to lesbians
Ynet: In light of advice, Justice Minister Livni looks to make discrimination in housing a criminal offense
Rabbi Mordechai Elon (right) at the Magistrates Court in Jerusalem, 2012. (photo credit: Yoav Ari Dudkevitch/Flash90)
August 7, 2013, 10:04 am
Popular rabbi found guilty of sexual misconduct
Court says Mordechai Elon committed an indecent act against a minor in 2005, but acquits him of sexual assault and harassment
By Aaron Kalman and Mitch Ginsburg
August 6, 2013, 10:44 am
Allegations of graver sexual abuse surface on eve of rabbi’s verdict
In 2012 interview, Ramat Gan’s chief rabbi said Mordechai Elon committed acts far worse than those brought before the court
By Mitch Ginsburg
July 15, 2013, 12:42 am
Shas mentor’s son may be ineligible for chief rabbi race
Yitzhak Yosef failed to renew rabbinical license for several years
By Asher Zeiger
Rabbi David Stav (photo credit: courtesy Tzohar)
June 3, 2013, 12:44 am
Jewish Home votes to back moderate Stav for chief rabbi
Support comes after months of infighting; bill clearing way for Sephardi chief rabbi Amar’s second term advances
By Lazar Berman
MK Zvulun Kalfa (photo credit: Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 26, 2013, 6:27 pm
MK puts chief rabbi laws on hold
Citing current lack of support, Zvulun Kalfa withdraws bill that would remove age limit, allow second term in post
By Asher Zeiger
Late Shas spirtual leader Rabbi Ovadia Yosef (seated) and Chief Sephardi Rabbi Shlomo Amar during a Shas party Passover gathering, April 2012. (photo credit: Uri Lenz/Flashh90)
May 15, 2013, 12:58 am
Shas leader to Bennett: Support chief rabbi deal
Ovadia Yosef asks Jewish Home head to back Yaakov Ariel and Shlomo Amar; agreement unlikely
By Lazar Berman
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau (photo credit: Flash90)
April 18, 2013, 11:04 am
Speculation roils chief rabbi race
A new-old candidate, former chief rabbi Yisrael Meir Lau, is said to be considering a comeback
By Matti Friedman
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