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Meir Porush

Rabbi Meir Porush is an Israeli lawmaker and member of United Torah Judaism as part of its hassidic half, Agudat Yisrael. He currently serves as the country's Jerusalem affairs and Jewish tradition minister.

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 Families of the hostages held in Gaza call for new elections, March 30, 2024.

Minister Porush implores UN envoy to deliver matzah and wine to hostages in Gaza

 MK Meir Porush arrives to coalition talks at the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2022.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish pilgrims pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov during the celebration of Rosh Hashanah holiday, the Jewish New Year, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, in Uman, Ukraine, September 25, 2022.

Gov't approves budget for plan to facilitate Israelis traveling to Uman

 MK Meir Porush arrives to coalition talks at the Likud headquarters in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2022.

Could tense Israel-Ukraine relations cause a humanitarian crisis in Uman?

 JERUSALEM AND Jewish Heritage Minister Meir Porush arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister’s Office. He says he was just ‘helping a hassid visit his rebbe.’

Abusing power to help predators - opinion

Wadi al-Joz in east Jerusalem

Gov't approves 3b. for public infrastructure, education in east Jerusalem

 Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Tradition Minister Meir Porush is seen meeting with Ukraine's Ambassador to Israel Yevgeny Kornichuk to discuss pilgrimages to Uman.

Ukraine envoy meets Jerusalem minister to talk Uman pilgrimages

 Ultra-Orthodox UTJ MKs Meir Porush (L), Moshe Gafni and Ariel Atias (R) seen in the Knesset on February 18

UTJ threatens to boycott coalition votes over ministry budget demand

 Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Tradition Minister Meir Porush at the Jerusalem Post Annual Conference in New York, June 5, 2023.

Israel will invest NIS 5 billion in east Jerusalem - Meir Porush

 THOUSANDS OF Belz Hassidim take part in the wedding ceremony of the Belz Rebbe’s grandson, in Jerusalem, 2018.

Accountant-general blocks UTJ plan of Shavuot bonus for only hassidim

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri.

Draft and Deri laws create growing rift between Netanyahu, haredim

 LIKUD LEADER BENJAMIN Netanyahu shakes hands with United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Goldknopf in the Knesset last week. If Netanyahu’s promise of a full budget for all haredi educational institutions is realized, the already-low incentive to provide core studies will disappear entirely.

Israeli gov't will collapse without new IDF draft bill, top haredi minister warns

Meir Porush, Minister of Jerusalem and Israel's Traditions, March 27, 2019.

Netanyahu should quit if he can't fulfill coalition deals - haredi minister

 Rabbi Eliezer Berland covered with a prayer shawl arrives for a court hearing arrives for a police investigation at a police station in Jerusalem, November 2, 2021.

Israeli sex offender rabbi should be banned from Lag Ba'omer event - NGO

 FUNERAL FOR brothers Yosef David Elhadar and Moshe Mordechai Elhadar (opposite, far right), killed in the Meron tragedy; flames of remembrance for 45 victims; both May 2, 2021.

Almost 2 years after tragedy, Meron celebrations regulated under new law

Meir Porush, Minister of Jerusalem and Israel's Traditions, March 27, 2019.

Meron disaster victims demand MK Porush be reinstated as Meron celebration supervisor

Jewish worshippers sing and dance as they stand on tribunes at the Lag Ba’omer event on Mount Meron on April 29.

Netanyahu, prepare now to ensure Israeli Lag Ba'omer safety - Meron panel