Religious & Secular in Israel

Most Israeli Jews partake in several Hanukkah activities, such as eating sufganiyot (doughnuts) and latkes (79%) and giving Hanukkah gelt (64%).

Oppenheimer's activities in Peace Now include advocating for a Palestinian state and for freezing construction in the Jewish settlements.

"El Al does not take note of its customers' affiliation to any sector, gender or nationality."

Osher Ad's net revenues are expected to reach $1.07 billion in 2018, and net profit is expected to reach $24 million.

"To my chagrin, it has been a week since the event in which the entire Torah observant public was soiled for all to see for things that never happened."

Once again, El Al's Haredi passengers are furious at Israel's national carrier, this time also about ruining their Shabbat, but in a new way: According...

Observant Jewish passengers, as well as several journalists, said the report was a lie.

The city with the highest percentage of children is Modiin Ilit – 64.4%.

Justice Stein expressed a conservative approach according to which the High Court must refrain from intervening as much as possible in the decisions of lower courts.

"Voters are receptive to progressive agendas, even if they don’t identify as such."

A Saturday night poll showed that should Labor appoint Benny Gantz to head its Knesset list, the party could pick up 24 seats, compared with Likud's 26.

The incumbent mayor has often been charged with discrimination against the city's religious population.

When one pays a real estate tax bill with interest to a city hall that's covered by a blanket Heter Iska from the Interior Minister – that's very much a violation of Torah law.

“You brought a spirit of heroism and nobility that was sorely tested on the difficult journey you undertook."

The defense minister accused Habayit Hayehudi of trying to torpedo the law.

Edelstein said that if the murder "achieved any goals, then those goals were the opposite of what the despicable murderer had aimed to achieve."

The split within the Haredi factions in last Tuesday's vote also makes it possible for several Haredi city council-members elect to endorse Berkovitch next round.

A significant part of Bloch's achievement is attributed to the success of her Haredi activists. Apparently, many of the Haredi residents of Beit Shemesh also sought a new direction.

Like any journalist, I enjoy a good gotcha (although I work hard not to do it myself), but this gotcha, Judy Maltz, is dripping the blood of murder victims.

The Honenu attorneys who represent the defendants suggested the loss of the recordings cast a heavy shadow on the trial's continuation and on the state's ability to convict their clients.

The defense argued that while the state prosecution indicted their clients, it regularly opts not to indict in similar cases in the Arab sector.

If you view freedom as driving on Shabbat while devouring a ham sandwich on a date with a gentile to purchase a Christmas tree – this is the index for you.

Shaked is a ball of contradictions, which gives her power and makes her uniquely pan-Israeli.

"It would be a somewhat complex but possible task, it all depends on the discretion of the political echelon."

MK Uri Maklev argued that "just as you know how to close the streets for marathons and bicycle races and other such events, the same approach must be used in building such complex engineering infrastructures."

All Liberman has to offer in response to Bennett's jabs is scorn and sarcasm, which reveals an echo chamber mentality that could come back to hurt him in the next elections.

Of course, this entire drama would have been prevented had there been even a couple of Reform or Conservative Jews to celebrate Chol Ha'Mo'ed at the Kotel.

Rightwing party Otzma Yehudit (formerly Otzma LeYisrael) headed by Michael Ben-Ari, Aryeh Eldad, Baruch Marzel, Itamar Ben-Gvir, and Zvi Sukkot is one of the...

In 2016, the High Court of Justice ruled that conversions in private Orthodox courts in Israel should be recognized. The Netanyahu government has been dragging its feet about complying with the ruling.

“Why is it that in Caesarea, Masada and Beit She’an it’s OK to hold events and here it’s prohibited?"