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United Torah Judaism election candidate Eliakim Stark speaks at an election event in Beit Shemesh, October 15, 2026. (Screenshot/X/Avi Moskoff)
Winter: 'Shocking remark a disgrace to any Israeli, any Jew'
Outrage as UTJ candidate likens situation of ultra-Orthodox in Israel to Jews in Holocaust
By Michael Bachner and ToI Staff
Stark says draft-dodging men can't travel for marriage matches: 'Reminds me of our grandparents' stories'; Pindrus, Deri regret backing Ohana, a gay MK, as Knesset speaker: ‘Desecration of God’s name’
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (L) speaks with Education Minister Nafatli Bennett during the opening of the winter session of the Knesset, Jerusalem, October 31, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 16, 2026, 10:27 am
Bennett and Deri spar after mob attacks female soldiers in Bnei Brak
Former PM visits city, accuses coalition of turning blind eye to ultra-Orthodox incitement against joining army; Shas leader calls for restraining order against him
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
MK Boaz Bismuth chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, January 15, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 21, 2026, 6:35 pm
Haredi draft exemption marching ahead, but contentious bill still faces uphill battle
With rebel MKs possibly withholding support, legislation is set to advance out of committee but may be slow to face Knesset vote, putting ultra-Orthodox parties in a bind over budget
By Sam Sokol
Former United Torah Judiasm MK Yisrael Eichler arrives for a meeting of the Council of Torah Sages on the Haredi draft exemption bill in Jerusalem, January 7, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 15, 2026, 5:08 pm
UTJ’s Eichler to be appointed deputy minister, preventing him voting against draft bill
Move reshuffles ultra-Orthodox Knesset seats to secure support for draft bill, budget and protect Netanyahu’s coalition; opposition calls it a bribe
By Ariela Karmel
Opposition Leader Yair Lapid chairs a meeting of his Yesh Atid party in the Knesset, October 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 27, 2025, 7:17 pm
Lapid says he’ll push for revoking ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers’ right to vote
Liberman welcomes opposition leader’s threat, while Gantz derides ‘illegal’ and undemocratic proposal
By Sam Sokol
United Torah Judaism MK Yisrael Eichler chairs a Knesset Labor and Welfare Committee meeting in Jerusalem, on June 30, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 23, 2025, 6:15 pm
UTJ’s Eichler elected to rabbinical judicial appointments committee
Chosen unopposed, lawmaker vows to appoint ‘Torah scholars and upright individuals’ to committee that appoints judges to religious courts overseeing divorce, conversion cases
By Ariela Karmel
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
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