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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 477

Yitzhak Pindrus

Relatives of Israelis held hostage in the Gaza Strip challenge Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich during a Knesset Finance Committee meeting, June 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 10, 2024, 3:39 pm
‘Cynicism and demagoguery’: Hostage families clash with Smotrich, MKs in Knesset
Finance minister wonders aloud if families would sacrifice 20 other civilians for loved ones, as UTJ lawmaker accuses relative of wanting ‘to make it political, to kick Bibi out’
By Sam Sokol
Yeshiva students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva, in Jerusalem on July 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 18, 2024, 1:22 am
Wartime budget slashes education funds, but not for the ultra-Orthodox, complain MKs
Amended 2024 budget leaves intact NIS 2 billion of special funds promised by government during coalition talks, though Haredi lawmakers claim they are actually losing the most
By Sam Sokol
Pini Einhorn hugs a child at a shiva in Israel in October 2023. (Courtesy: Pini Einhorn)
October 22, 2023, 3:03 pm
Not just prayers: War sparks unprecedented mobilization by ultra-Orthodox Israelis
Some 2,000 volunteer IDF soldiers are at the forefront of an effort that some hope will change the minority’s relationship with the rest of society long-term
By Canaan Lidor
United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus chairs a meeting of the Knesset Constitution, Law and Justice Committee on June 27, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 27, 2023, 4:13 pm
Haredi MK urges ouster of attorney general: Netanyahu’s ‘No. 1 enemy’ appointed her
Yitzhak Pindrus says governments should be able to fire AGs they didn’t appoint, claims Baharav-Miara’s selection by former justice minister Sa’ar is grounds for her dismissal
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus gives an interview on June 20, 2023. (Screenshot: Channel 12; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 21, 2023, 11:22 am
Coalition MK: LGBTQ community poses greater threat to Israel than Hezbollah or Hamas
Yitzhak Pindrus of the United Torah Judaism party says that it’s his duty to ‘not only prevent the Pride parade, but in general to prevent this movement’
By Michael Bachner
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
FILE: Israeli model and TV host Galit Gutman hosts the "Israel Calling" concert in Tel Aviv's Rabin square on April 10, 2018, (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 19, 2023, 6:11 pm
TV host slammed for calling Haredim ‘bloodsuckers’ during panel on state budget
Galit Gutman issues apology after facing widespread criticism for accusing right-religious coalition of ‘simply milking its citizens’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Workers prepare matzah for the upcoming Jewish holiday of Passover at the 'Yehuda Matzos' plant in Jerusalem on March 16, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 23, 2023, 11:16 pm
UTJ submits bill to ban hametz from hospitals during Passover
Progressive religious voices denounce proposal, say it will have a ‘boomerang effect’ and drive people away from Judaism
By Judah Ari Gross
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
Opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu speaks to US President Joe Biden, from a Likud office in Tel Aviv on November 7, 2022. (Courtesy Likud)
November 7, 2022, 11:55 pm
Biden congratulates Netanyahu on election win: ‘We’ll make history together’
Likud leader also takes phone call from Ukraine’s Zelensky, who reportedly invites him to Kyiv; tells US president he believes they’ll ink additional peace deals
By Jacob Magid
United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus at a conference organized by the Srugim news website ahead of the Knesset elections, outside the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, October 30, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
November 2, 2022, 9:25 am
Haredi member of Netanyahu bloc tells political rivals: ‘We’re not animals like you’
In apparent attempt at conciliatory message, UTJ’s Pindrus says current government treated ultra-Orthodox ‘cruelly,’ but ‘we won’t harass you’ if right-religious bloc regains power
By ToI Staff
Foreign Minister Yair Lapid speaks at a conference organized by the Israel Democracy Institute in Jerusalem on June 21, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 22, 2022, 7:59 pm
Lapid accuses far-right MK of pushing racist, anti-democratic agenda
Itamar Ben Gvir fires back by claiming that the FM ‘should be the last to preach’; Sa’ar charges that the opposition is a threat to democracy
By Michael Horovitz
From right, Rabbi Leah Muhlstein, Yaron Shavit, Didi Almog, presumed chairman-elect of the Jewish Agency Doron Almog, president of the Union for Reform Judaism Rick Jacobs, Diaspora Affairs Minister Nachman Shai, Yair Lotstein, MK Rabbi Gilad Kariv, and head of the Israeli Reform movement Anna Kislanski during the Reform movement's biennial conference at Kibbutz Shefayim on June 17, 2022. (Reform movement)
June 19, 2022, 2:44 pm
Jewish Agency chairman-to-be meets Reform movement, sparking ultra-Orthodox furor
Doron Almog spends his first Shabbat after being tapped to lead the semi-governmental group with Reform leaders, in an apparent hint at plans to boost ties with progressive Judaism
By Judah Ari Gross
Supreme Court Chief of Justice Esther Hayut speaks at an Israel Bar Association conference in Tel Aviv, September 02, 2021. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 23, 2022, 3:12 pm
Supreme Court chief accuses politicians of seeking to ‘destroy’ justice system
Amid harsh criticism from lawmakers on both sides of the aisle, Esther Hayut warns that discourse about court is ‘deteriorating’ to ‘dangerous places’
By ToI Staff
United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindros (left) speaks during a panel held for Israel's 74th Independence Day at the Nehora high school yeshiva in the West Bank. Alongside him is Religious Zionism party MK Simcha Rothman, May 5, 2022. (Screenshot/Twitter)
May 9, 2022, 2:00 pm
Haredi lawmaker says his dream is to ‘blow up’ the Supreme Court
Coalition lawmakers and former justices slam ‘shocking’ remarks made by MK Yitzhak Pindrus of United Torah Judaism during an Independence Day panel
By Tobias Siegal
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