Smotrich's decision opens another front in the struggle between the government and the attorney general's office.
On Tisha B’Av 5784, it is clear that the same phenomenon is bubbling up in the Modern Orthodox community in America and the religious-Zionist community in Israel regarding the events of Oct. 7.
At the end of the first recruitment day for haredim, only 8% of recruits showed up to serve at the recruitment offices.
Limon's letter addressed the fact that the IDF chose to send out its first three thousand draft orders to haredim who were listed as either working or studying in universities.
Sadly, the response from the haredi rabbis is not the maturity and taking of responsibility. Rather, to consider any viewpoint other than their own, which h
Leaders of the rapidly growing haredi community say that forcing seminary students to serve alongside secular Israelis including women risks destroying their identity as religious Jews.
The bill will preserve in law the Rabbinic Committee for Communication's ability to control some 500,000 users of what are known as "kosher cell phones."
The message stated Shas rabbis “have firmly instructed that as of now, with no new law yet established to regulate the status of yeshiva students, no draft orders or summons should be responded to."
The film is showing throughout July and August at theaters in the Lev Cinemas chain and other venues around the country.
Movers and shakers in Israeli society.