Deguel Hatorah

Rift deepens: Shas expected to leave gov't as Netanyahu, Edelstein conclude bill discussion

Because of the government's lack of progress on the haredi draft bill, some coalition parties are expected to leave the government.

 Shas MK Yinon Azoulay seen in the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, July 22, 2024
 BENJAMIN NETANYAHU attends a conference in Jerusalem, last week.

Netanyahu greeted with insults, jeers on visit to B'nei Brak

Head of the Knesset Finance Committee, Moshe Gafni, at the vote for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's request for tax refunds, June 23, 2020

Gafni to head UTJ, Litzman bumped to No. 2

Members of the Degel Hatorah and Agudat Yisrael parties

Degel Council of Torah Sages adds new members


Gafni says will raise Draft bill if talk of budget bill arises

MK Moshe Gafni also celebrated his party's success at preventing the amendment of a basic law that is intended to ensure equality and prohibit discrimination.

Moshe Gafni

Revered arbiter of Jewish law Rabbi Karelitz passes away at age 93

Karelitz headed an ultra-Orthodox, independent rabbinical court in Bnei Brak whose decisions were widely recognized.

Rabbi Shmaryahu Yossef Nissim Karlitz

Jerusalem deputy mayor won’t speak at a Conservative movement venue

Haredi man in Jerusalem

Gafni categorically rejects backing Gantz for PM

Gafni was reacting to earlier reports that despite Degel and UTJ’s antipathy for Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid.

Moshe Gafni

Haredi parties split up in Jerusalem elections, first time in 30 years

The two haredi parties run on the joint ticket of United Torah Judaism in many municipalities around the country and have run together nationally in the UTJ alliance since 1992.

MK Moshe Gafni (UTJ) speaks at a finance committee meeting on January 15th, 2018

The mission of Rachel’s nurse Deborah

This journey was full of hardships.

ALBRECHT DÜRER’S engraving of Adam and Eve from 1504AN ELDERLY Isaac blesses Jacob with Rebekah in the background in this 1638 painting by Dutch artist Govert Flinck

Ultraorthodoxes : un guide des égarés

Les récentes manifestations contre l’incorporation des étudiants de yeshiva sont le résultat d’un schisme au sein du monde harédi

Manifestation ultraorthodoxe contre l'incorporation dans l'armée