Religious & Secular in Israel

At least 1,027,578 Israelis will receive the food stamps this week, the interior ministry's grant to the vulnerable populations affected by the Corona.

One of the two was the first openly gay man elected to the Knesset.

MK Yulia Malinovsky, whose coalition party Yisrael Beiteinu broke rank and voted against the bill, asked the Likud members from the podium Monday night when did they become a Haredi party.

The amended clause essentially deprives the police commissioner of his independence.

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.

On the week following the arson in Duma, President Reuven Rivlin took a firm position against the arsonists, declaring: “My people have chosen terror.” He did so without an ounce of proof and should apologize.

Reports of a yeshiva student who received five doses of cholent by mistake.

Also, as we have mentioned, taking his money out of his ten-day Israel Bond would have cost him plenty. Ike may be angry but he's not a fool.

"How can you live with the fact that Yishai Schlissel looks more like you than he does me?"

Smotrich sees a significant dispute between the two parties concerning inviting Itamar Ben-Gvir and Baruch Marzel of the Jewish Power party into the partnership.

The media accentuate the negative and violent acts of a very small minority, over the mature and calm behavior of the vast majority of Haredim.

The reported cost of each luxury 1,335 sq. ft., 5-room apartment, will be only one million shekel – $276,000.

Netanyahu told the three Haredi coalition leaders at the meeting, who insist they oppose the draft law in its present form: "I do not want new elections, but I'm not afraid of elections, and if there are elections, I'll do fine."

Colel Chabad is working with the Israeli government to make sure that every Israeli has what they need for Passover.

When interviewed this week, it turned out that Rabbi Eliyahu's opinion has either been modified following the attacks on him, or has always remained grounded in normative halacha.

Shas says the national anthem is just a modern poem, not the Torah.

The very party that received artificial respiration from the prime minister refuses to return the favor because he relies on an Islamic party.

About 60 Arab squatters in Sheikh Jarrah are slated for eviction, after having exhausted the appeal process in Israeli courts.

Last September, Netanyahu asked Deputy Attorney General Raz Nazri to provide recommendations to issue a sweeping permit to professional soccer on Shabbat.

The AG decided to take over the case from the state prosecution – a most unusual move possible only in Israel's system where the AG possesses unlimited powers.

The President of HUC-JIR, sent The Jewish Press an angry letter suggesting there are Orthodox sources supporting patrilineal descent.

The Prime Minister's decision will effectively prevent the possibility of Israelis visiting Area C's northern Samaria, and certainly quash any notion of resettling Homesh.

The real news is that in nearly every Israeli supermarket chain this year, the price of groceries has dropped.

'A person who serves the state and sacrifices his comfort for her sake must be awarded a significant advantage.'

Rabbi Melamed said that if more people wish to pray in a mixed group, “the authorities will increase and expand the Ezrat Israel section for them as needed."

Of course, this will not be exactly the first time in the history of business transactions that the real new owners, for a variety of reasons, prefer to act through a representative.

Nowhere did the IDF report that it was soldiers, and not “settlers” who attacked the Arab merchants in Hebron.

"The thing we all prayed for, a Jewish Zionist government, is now within reach."

Asadi hosted an election party in his home with Yesh Atid MK Elazar Stern.

"We don't have and we won't have a better government."