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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 471

Yisrael Eichler

Extremist ultra-Orthodox protesters lie on the sidewalk amid clashes with police during a protest against the drafting of Haredi men to the army, outside the IDF recruitment center at Tel Hashomer, August 5, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 28, 2024, 7:23 pm
Ultra-Orthodox party backs down from threat to tank budget over IDF exemption bill
United Torah Judaism pushes to postpone budget vote until law passes to entrench Haredi non-service in army, then changes course to pursue daycare subsidies
By Sam Sokol
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 11, 2024, 8:47 am
Ultra-Orthodox party pans Netanyahu for issuing credit rating statement on Shabbat
Housing minister Goldknopf of United Torah Judaism calls PM’s response ‘inappropriate’; Finance Committee chair says it was ‘totally unnecessary’ and a colleague laments ‘disgrace’
By ToI Staff
Israeli settlers hurl stones at Palestinians during the annual harvest season near the Israeli settlement of Yitzhar in the West Bank on October 7, 2020. (Nasser Ishtayeh/Flash90)
December 24, 2023, 2:49 pm
Hardline MKs demand review of alleged IDF report on settler violence
Right-wing members of Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee rail against ‘comprehensive and false’ campaign against settlers, say it causes ‘enormous political damage’
By Sam Sokol
United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler at an Internal Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem, February 24, 2014. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
September 11, 2023, 2:10 am
Haredim slam Netanyahu for ‘heresy’ against God in Ukraine comment; MK blasts Zionism
In apparent coalition crisis after remark that God ‘hasn’t always protected us’ in Europe and Ukraine, UTJ MK pans PM’s ‘ignorance,’ blames Zionists for suffering during Holocaust
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
UTJ MK and Deputy Knesset Speaker Yisrael Eichler (right) during a vote in the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on December 28, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
May 22, 2023, 12:33 pm
UTJ MK: ‘The government is not in our hands,’ Bank of Israel chief should quit
Yisrael Eichler says government power rests in hands of deep state and bureaucrats, who he compares to Russia’s Putin; blasts failure of interest rate hikes to bring down inflation
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism MKs Yisrael Eichler, center and Meir Porush in the Knesset, January 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
May 21, 2023, 10:50 pm
Haredi MK threatens elections if budget demands ignored, says PM ‘not a leader’
MK Yaakov Eichler says faction needs to ‘reevaluate’ its place in government; Otzma Yehudit MK vows her party won’t compromise on its demands for extra Negev and Galilee funding
By ToI Staff
A passerby attacks an ultra-Orthodox man on Allenby Street in Tel Aviv, September 2, 2022. (Twitter screenshot used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 5, 2022, 7:00 pm
Ultra-Orthodox man shoved to the ground by another man on Tel Aviv street
Victim was out encouraging passersby to lay tefillin; UTJ Knesset member calls for attacker to be charged with hate crime
By Michael Horovitz
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism MKs Yisrael Eichler, center and Meir Porush in the Knesset, January 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
May 9, 2021, 8:57 pm
2 Haredi MKs call on Netanyahu to step aside to avert Bennett-Lapid government
UTJ’s Porush, Eichler suggest Likud leader let someone else lead a right-wing coalition for a year and a half, then return to his post
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler in Jerusalem on September 4, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 31, 2020, 3:01 pm
MK diagnosed with coronavirus 10 days after vaccination shot
UTJ lawmaker Yisrael Eichler, who has had first of two-shot inoculation, said to be feeling well; diagnosis comes day after Shas party’s MK Yoav Ben-Tzur tested positive for virus
By Stuart Winer
A screenshot from a video said to show thousands of ultra-Orthodox at a wedding in Jerusalem, in violation of coronavirus restrictions, on August 5, 2020. (Screenshot/Channel 12)
August 6, 2020, 8:52 pm
Criminal probe opened into mass ultra-Orthodox wedding in Jerusalem
Police decry ‘blatant violation’ of virus rules after thousands don’t wear masks or distance at Hasidic event indoors; report says Haredi lawmaker was present
By ToI Staff
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man wears a face mask with a yellow star on and raises his hands at a roadblock in the Hephzibah neighborhood in Beit Shemesh that is currently under a lock down in an attempt to prevent the spread of the Coronavirus, on July 10, 2020. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 10, 2020, 6:21 pm
Haredi MK wants ultra-Orthodox parties to quit coalition over targeted lockdowns
UTJ lawmaker Yisrael Eichler says ministers should temporarily step down until PM ends ‘selective’ closures on ultra-Orthodox areas; ‘Haredi human rights are not expendable’
By ToI Staff
An Israeli patient waits in the corridor of the Barzlai Medical Center in Ashkelon, southern Israel, February 15, 2012. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
April 30, 2020, 4:06 pm
High Court rules hospitals can’t stop visitors bringing in bread during Passover
Ruling says guards can’t search belongings of visitors or make remarks about bringing in food that isn’t kosher for Passover; draws immediate rebuke from ultra-Orthodox lawmakers
By ToI Staff
Yisrael Beytenu party chairman Avigdor Liberman speaks at a faction meeting at the Knesset on November 11, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
November 20, 2019, 4:14 pm
Left, right, ultra-Orthodox unite in denouncing Liberman’s ‘anti-Semitic’ speech
After Yisrael Beytenu leader called the ultra-Orthodox ‘anti-Zionists,’ Haredi MKs slam ‘horror show’ and liken it to Kishinev pogrom; others accuse him of leading to 3rd election
By Michael Bachner
Finance Minister Moshe Kahlon, left, speaks with Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman in the Knesset, November 18, 2015. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 15, 2019, 12:27 pm
Liberman denies conspiring with Kahlon to prevent Netanyahu coalition
With two weeks to go before coalition formation deadline, Yisrael Beytenu chief plays hard to get and blasts Haredim, but dismisses notion he’s out to block PM; Kahlon stays silent
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler at a Knesset committee meeting on November 8, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 14, 2019, 6:39 pm
Ultra-Orthodox MK accuses Liberman of ‘trying to hinder’ right-wing coalition
UTJ’s Yisrael Eichler calls for a rerun of elections to prevent ‘lost votes’ on right and thus eliminate need for Yisrael Beytenu in government
By ToI Staff
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