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Addressing the Ariel Conference for Ethics in the Media last week, chareidi askan Dudu Zilbershlag told participants that in the very near future, the Vaad Rabbonim for Communications would be putting its stamp of approval on the first chareidi smartphone. Zilbershlag feels this will be another step towards facilitating efforts to bring chareidim into ...

Header yeshiva roshei yeshiva and administrators are learning that the planned national government cuts by the treasury don’t single out chareidim, but will deliver a serious blow to the dati leumi yeshivot gevoha and hesder yeshivot as well. While many in the dati leumi community supported the new legislation to draft bnei Torah from ...

Gavaad Eida Chareidis HaGaon HaRav Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss Shlita along with rabbonim of the Eida Chareidis will mark the 24th yahrzeit for the Minchas Yitzchak ZT”L, which is Monday, 11 Sivan 5773. The yahrzeit seuda will be held in the Eida’s Zupnik Beis Medrash on Strauss Street beginning at 21:00. (YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)

Motzei Shabbos: Only hundreds of people participated in socioeconomic rallies against the proposed stated budget in protests in Tel Aviv and Jerusalem. Motzei Shabbos: A 40-year-old woman sustained moderate head injuries on motzei Shabbos, the result of falling from a ladder in her Menachem Street home in Bnei Brak. ...

According to a Sunday Times report from Sunday 10 Sivan 5773, Syrian leader Bashar al-Assad is deploying surface-to-surface missiles for use against Israel in the event there is another Israeli strike against him. According to the report, Syrian army officials have received orders to fire advanced missiles into ...

In 2012, 22,800 babies were brought into the world, 64% (14,600) to Jewish women and 35% (7,900) to Muslim women, representing 13.3% of the number of babies born nationwide, the Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS) reported ahead of Jerusalem Day 2013. Jerusalem women are in first place regarding the number of births per woman, averaging 3.93 during ...

Bayit Yehudi party leader Minister Naftali Bennett is working to redefine the “local custom” regarding tefilos at the Kosel. Bennett is reacting to the recent Jerusalem District Court decision by Justice Moshe Sobel in which the court stated that the women of the Women of the Wall (WoW) organization was not in violation of the ...

Following the announced deal between the Shas and Bayit Yehudi parties pertaining to the race for new chief rabbis, Rishon L’Tzion Rabbi Moshe Shlomo Amar Shlita and Rabbi Yaakov Ariel Shlita have announced they are together and speak in one voice in their desire to work to promote and protect Yiddishkheit in Eretz Yisrael. The two announced ...

Following Attorney General Yehuda Weinstein’s declaration making ‘exclusion of women’ a criminal offense, the anti-chareidi floodgates have been opened wide, now enjoying the backing of the attorney general. The Ministerial Legislative Committee on Sunday 10 Sivan 5773 will discuss the merit of a bill introduced by MK (Labor) ...

It is now clear to all that the austerity state budget which will deliver a fatal blow to many chareidi yeshivos chas v’sholom will strike equally as hard in the dati leumi community, hitting hesder yeshivot and dati leumi yeshivot gavoha too. Eitan Ozeri, who serves as the secretary of the national Hesder Yeshivot network has sent an ...

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on erev Shabbos Rosh Chodesh Sivan 5773, made the following remarks at his press conference with Russian President Vladimir Putin: "I very much appreciate your contribution. At 05:00, we finished the budget and a few hours later I landed here in Sochi, which is very impressive and attests to Russia's ...

09:30: No injuries are being reported in a fire that erupted in Kever Dovid HaMelech, apparently started by many yahrzeit candles left unattended. 10:25: Jerusalem police has closed Har Habayis to visitors in light of recent events and the “sensitive nature of the holy site”. 13:04: Temperatures are ...

The first report of the planned arnona tax on kevarim resulted in an across-the-board condemnation of Finance Minister Yair Lapid’s plan. When asked to comment on the report, Finance Ministry officials explained the media erred, explaining that if arnona tax is imposed on kevarim, it will be the responsibility of a chevra kadisha to pay, not the ...

Homefront Defense Minister Gilad Erdan (Likud) addressed an assembly of members of the national information system ahead of National Emergency Week. He told his colleagues that the “Main scenario facing Israel today that we are preparing for is a barrage of long-range rockets fired into Israel intended on wearing down our resilience and ...

The pressure is on for Bayit Yehudi party leaders as a growing number of dati leumi rabbonim have come out expressing opposition to the so-called Stern Bill, which seeks to increase the voter body for chief rabbis from 150 to 200. Bayit Yehudi leader Naftali Bennett favors the bill, which would add 50 voters, voters representing the dati leumi ...

The Cabinet, at its weekly meeting on Monday, 4 Sivan 5773, unanimously approved the appointment of Major.-General. (ret.) Avichai Mandelblit as Cabinet Secretary in place of Tzvi Hauser, who is stepping down after four years in office. Mandelblit is a former IDF Military Advocate General and since retiring from the IDF has ...

During a visit by members of the Knesset Education Committee to mosdos in Yerushalayim, MK (Yahadut Hatorah) Rabbi Yaakov Asher spoke out in defense of chareidi schools. Accompanying the committee members were Itamar Ben Ezer, who heads the Jerusalem Chareidi Education Division and Jerusalem Deputy Mayor Yitzchak Pindrus. Asher ...