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 Itamar Ben Gvir

Ben-Gvir threatens coalition after spat with haredi parties

 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cabinet minister Benny Gantz during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv , Israel , 28 October 2023.

Likud regains some ground, Gantz maintains lead in new poll

 Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of United Torah Judaism, arrives for a cabinet meeting together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Will Israel's government collapse due to the IDF haredi draft crisis?

THE KNESSET Finance Committee’s incoming chairman, United Torah Judaism’s Moshe Gafni, presents an anti-economic bill that challenges the capitalist zeal of incoming finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Israel could permit sale of wine in Israel after 11 p.m. on Thursdays

 Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2023.

Israel's Labor largely unaffected after Michaeli's resignation, election poll shows

 Head of the Finance committee MK Moshe Gafni leads a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 17, 2023.

Israel is fighting a holy war on Judaism, ultra-Orthodox leader claims

HAREDIM BURN garbage and protest enforcement of coronavirus restrictions in Mea She’arim earlier this week.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews are a cancer to Israeli society, radio presenter says

 United Torah Judaism (UTJ) chairman rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf is seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022

Coalition at risk as gov't struggling to agree on Draft Law outline

 FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich, leader of the Religious Zionist Party, and Shas party head MK Arye Deri attend a meeting in the Knesset in May on the state budget.

Israel's 'religious' Jewish parties want to destroy democracy, morality - opinion

 United Torah Judaism leader Yitzhak Goldknopf and Otzma Yehudit chair Itamar Ben-Gvir with MKs from the likely coalition, November 21, 2022.

Coalition divided on IDF conscription, rejects blanket yeshiva exemptions

 Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a Shas party meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.

Netanyahu denies asking haredim to drop draft exemption

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

Spiritual service cannot come at the expense of military service - editorial

 UTJ leader and Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf is seen at a Knesset committee meeting in Jerusalem, on July 10, 2023.

UTJ proposes Basic Law to equate Torah studies with IDF service

 National Unity Party leader MK Benny Gantz is seen addressing the Knesset plenum during a discussion regarding the reasonableness standard bill, in Jerusalem, on July 23, 2023.

Gantz's party leads, Netanyahu's coalition wanes - KAN News poll

Wheelchair (illustrative)

MKs and parents demand motorized wheelchairs for disabled children

 Premier candidates: Benny Gantz, Benjamin Netanyahu and Yair Lapid.

Israeli election poll: Blue and White party leads as coalition struggles to gain majority

 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

 THE UNITED Torah Judaism (UTJ) parliamentary faction holds a meeting in the Knesset. In the coalition, only UTJ abstained from the vote on the death penalty.

Freedom of speech at risk for haredi critics - opinion