Religious & Secular in Israel

The highest rate of those who wish to leave was among secular Jews, where 36% said they would have left. Among religious Jews only 7% expressed the same wish.

'There are several co-ed combat units in the military where we have been unable to find solutions to the close proximity problem, which is why we rule that [religious Jews] may not serve there.'

Shadrack Kipkosgei, 25, from Kenya, won the Jerusalem Marathon in 2:16:33.

Liberman wrote in his letter about the female soldiers who have fallen in the line of duty in recent years.

During the day expect to see LOTS of costumes and happy faces in Jerusalem, especially around Safra Square, the biggest Purim street fair in the country.

'The bill is intended to authorize the rabbinical courts to levy these limits on get refusers sitting in prison, in order to persuade them to release their wives from the chains of their Aguna status.'

Knesset Speaker Edelstein says the conference will help participants think more deeply about "how to benefit our own countries and the world at large."

Smotrich responded calling the reports by Ha'raetz and Channel 2 'fake research.'

They obviously meant to write 'menacing hordes,' which is both more comprehensible and more insulting. But wait, there's more.

The most scandalous of the six indictment items against the former chief rabbi had to do with his selling conversions in the US

'The judicial appointments this evening express the human as well as jurist common sense we so need as a society and which has been so direly absent from the highest judicial echelon.'

Live streaming was enabled for the joint news conference held by Pres. Trump and PM Netanyahu at the White House.

Many of the project's volunteers this year are Israeli special needs teenagers from Gan Yavne.

An investigative journalist disguised as an Orthodox Jews but armed with knives was able to bypass security on the Sabbath.

Education Minister Naftali Bennett turns out to be a man much in demand: party members in both the Likud and in his own party enjoy his presence.

Having concluded phase one of their attack, presenting IDF soldiers as war criminals to an eager world, BtS now zeroes in on the men and women who put their lives on the line every day to settle the entire Biblical Land of Israel.

The city of Jerusalem goes on strike hoping to inspire the Finance Ministry to release the funds it is supposed to grant the municipality as its "fair share."

Two years after the start of a housing project in Ramat Shlomo, Jerusalem's local planning board granted approval for the units.

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.

Several cars and an Israeli public bus were also damaged in the road terror attacks. A fire was started by one of the Molotov cocktails that exploded at the side of the road.

Grief-stricken families expressed their love and pride in their fallen IDF soldiers, speaking of their goodness, the ways in which they had left the world a better place.

Security sources are maintaining a partial gag order on an investigation into a deadly attack in Haifa.

DM Liberman says it's important to accept the verdict handed down in the Azaria case, even as lawmakers say the soldier should be pardoned for killing an injured terrorist.

The Ministry for Science, Space and Technology has allocated NIS 3 million to create a national information center on gender equality.

Israel continues to grow as a Jewish State, as a nation and as a people. In 2016, Israel's population grew by 167,000 people.

Defense Minister Liberman pointed out that King David fought, as did Joshua bin Nun, saying they also had an understanding of Torah and Judaism.

Local police in the southern Israeli city of Sderot came to spend Chanukah with seniors this week, singing and sharing sufganiyot together.

PM Netanyahu says with sarcasm that according to the United Nations, the Maccabees did not liberate Jerusalem, but rather "occupied Palestinian territory."

People formed a human chain in Tel Aviv from the US Embassy to the Russian Embassy to call for an end to slaughter in Syria.

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