Religious & Secular in Israel

One is remembered for his mitzvahs and good deeds, and Rabbi “Heritage House’ Schuster will be remembered forever.

According to the indictment, the woman ascended to the Temple Mount on two separate occasions to pray, and after breaking the rules that prohibit prayer by Jews at the site of two Jewish temples, police officers approached her.

Minister Aryeh Deri said, "We want to prevent a change to the status quote, to prevent the Shabbat from turning into a national shopping day."

President Rivlin was asked by Arab high schoolers how they should grapple with the Jewish symbolism in the national anthem, as non-Jews.

Bennett stressed repeatedly that social divides within Israel and the Jewish people were more dangerous to the country’s future than even external security threats.

There is growing resistant from IDF soldiers who don't want to be ordered to take Jews from their homes in Amona.

Following accusations of election fraud in the city just outside Jerusalem, both sides agree they'd be much better off without one another.

The Knesset passed into law on Tuesday a requirement that at least four women be included on the committee that elects rabbinical court rabbis....

Most important: this government will pass a new, biannual budget, which its predecessor has failed to do.

"Let every advertising company know that freedom of expression is valid for right-wing activists, too."

A local Meretz rep tried to launch a boycott of a popular restaurant that becomes Sabbath observant.

Barlev has no handle whatsoever on the raging Arab violence.

The rabbi of the Western Wall said he "can live with" a plan presented by Jewish Agency Chairman Natan Sharansky for a permanent prayer...

Thank God, Israel has a rightwing government, and the man in charge of the police forces is a proven rightwing advocate, Homeland Security Minister Amir Ohana.

Lieberman replied in a jovial tone: "The Haredim together with Bibi will be taken on the same wheelbarrow to a good landfill."

A leading professor at Soroka Medical Center leads a cutting-edge four-day conference set to begin in France on the issue of recurrent pregnancy loss.

The decision to play this kind of hardball came from Lapid.

Fewer than 20 people attended Bar-Lev's rally, but the vehemence with which he attacked one of the most common practices of IDF soldiers, religious and secular alike, suggests the gap between right and left in Israel is stretching even wider.

At the same time, Minister Litzman noted that one can't argue with the fact that the number of dead from the coronavirus in Israel is relatively low.

"On one side is Ben Gvir, on the other side Ehud Barak and his emissaries. In the middle, there is an entire nation that’s simply fed up with extremism."

The two parties agreed that they would either join the coalition together or not at all.

There has been no reduction, much less elimination, of Israeli government support for foreign students attending local universities.

"I regret it, it's inappropriate, it was not right and it was not true," Habayit Hayehudi Chairman and Education Minister Naftali Bennett apologized to MK Yossi Yona (Zionist Camp) for a video ad published by his party in the 2015 election campaign.

Turns out what's good for the goose is plenty good for the gander.

“Lavi's resignation is a wake-up call for all those responsible for the Meron disaster: take responsibility.”

Bennett said that “there is no place for an American consulate that serves the Palestinians in Jerusalem.”

Smotrich knows this may be his only opportunity to make a real change in Israel’s system.

“Integrating the ultra-orthodox sector into the employment market is a goal of the highest order, for all of us.”

It is "difficult not to attribute malicious intent to the police and the State Attorney's Office and all their senior officials."

In March of 2018, Rabbi Cherlow ruled that a genetically cloned pig or any other animal would be Kosher.