Religious & Secular in Israel

Clearly, Netanyahu is not willing to give up the option of evicting Jewish settlers from their homes in Judea and Samaria, especially those living in the remote outposts.

The Shin Bet statement quite clearly either contradicts the earlier version of events as reported in the Israeli press, or alters the components of the story to produce a new, possibly misleading version.

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.

In addition, the Haredim want to pass a constitutional-level Basic Law: The Value of Torah Study.

Prof. Rubinstein is aghast at last week's election, which he sees as "a continuing shift away from secular Zionism toward religious Judaism."

"A tank shell weighs 25 kilograms and women are not allowed to carry weight over 15 kilograms for fear of Uterine prolapse."

With his 5 Knesset seats, Liberman could make life difficult for a Netanyahu 60-seat coalition, should he join forces with the 55-seat opposition, which includes two Arab parties.

Never before have Orthodox Jews been deposited with this much power and responsibility to do good and show secular Israeli Jews the power and beauty of our Torah.

During the operation, one of the truck drivers tried to attack the activists with a knife.

This might be a good place to note that Naftali Bennett is Israel's Minister for Diaspora Affairs. We think AIPAC's got a whole lot of Diaspora under its belt.

MK Bezalel Samotrich tweeted: "Israel will not be Iran."

"Ofer Cassif, Tibi and Zoabi, supporters of terrorism every one, are in, but Ben Ari, a Zionist Jew whose sons serve in the IDF, is out."

The right-wing parties union is preparing to launch a huge protest in the event that the court reverses the Knesset's decision.

The state must keep Shabbat according to Halacha. But but there can be private initiatives of public transportation on Shabbat.

WOW demanded the use of the PA system. Needless to say, the request – which was tantamount to asking firefighters for a light – was rejected by Rabbi Rabinovitch.

Omar's communications director and strategist said Ilhan "did not and has no plans to" meet with her uninvited guests.

Meanwhile, Attorney Ben Gvir filed a 500,000 shekel ($138,000) defamation lawsuit against MK Stav Shafir (Labor), for calling the members of Jewish Power "Nazis."

Zehut's recent rise in the polls is a source of anxiety for its right-wing competitors, uniting them in taking desperate measures against one of their own

"I very much hope that the next interior minister will be from the Likud and not from there (the Haredi parties)."

Several holy Jews who watched the video of the harmless event online alerted to Badatz, the kashrut supervision department of the Eda Haredit, which supervises the wedding hall.

"I was surprised that he sat down next to me at all," the soldier said. "That he would smile at me – that was strange already..."

All three parties when running on their own do not cross the threshold in most polls.

It's rewarding to see that MK Smotrich is adept at playing "I'm rubber you're glue."

“There is nothing more Jewish than pointed disagreement. And there is nothing more democratic than pointed disagreement. It is possible, important and perhaps even crucial to discuss and to insist on a culture of disagreement."

Litzman is suspected of illegally using the powers of his office to influence a psychiatric evaluation of Leifer's mental fitness to stand trial.

Interestingly, Gilinsky-Yankelevitch is on the record as supporting the segregation of women in the Haredi community.

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.

"Labor is like a pet that was run over on the highway."

"I do not rule out the possibility that Netanyahu will eventually go to a plea bargain like the one signed by former president Ezer Weizman – retirement to Caesarea in return for not being prosecuted,"

Many in the religious-Zionist camp have been warning recently about the "curse of 1992," which gave Israelis the Oslo Accords.