Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. MK Moshe Gafni in the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, December 4, 2024 (photo credit: FLASH90/CHAIM GOLDBERG) Shas put out a letter ...

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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Shas faction leader MK Arye Deri seen outside the party offices in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025 (photo credit: Chaim Goldberg/Flash90) ...

Yitzhak, who is the spiritual leader of the haredi Shas party, denounced the decision, which was taken on Saturday, calling the judges "heretics... Shabbat desecrators." A restricted priestly blessing ...

Long seen as a kingmaker in Israel, the Shas party wants to remain central to political life in upcoming elections, but its opposition to military conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews could undermine ...

Ariela Karmel is a political correspondent at The Times of Israel. She previously reported for Calcalist and Haaretz. She holds an MA in Middle Eastern and African History from Tel Aviv University and ...

The rally, attended by hundreds of haredi men and led by former Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, protested the drafting of yeshiva students to the army. An ultra-Orthodox (haredi) rabbi verbally ...