Jewish wearers of phylacteries (tefillin) for prayer have taken it for granted that the cases that hold them and the straps were always black, as designated by halacha (Jewish law). But ...

Many teen boys from around Israel have begun to express interest in obtaining tefillin (phylacteries), and having them available in schools, following the tefillin saga in a Ramat Gan school ...

A controversy arose at the Ohel Shem High School in Ramat Gan after the school principal, Israel Viluzhny, suspended a student for putting on tefillin (phylacteries) on the school grounds.