While UTJ chair Goldknopf threatens to send Israel to elections if Haredi draft-exemption bill not passed, other ...

Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri and United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni appear to distance themselves from UTJ chairman Yitzchak ...

Shas party chairman Aryeh Deri threatens to bring down the government unless it passes a conscription law exempting yeshiva students from military service in the next 60 days. Speaking with ultra ...

ALBAWABA - A significant political obstacle faces Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu as the Knesset gets ready to vote ...

Israel wants 6 more weeks of current deal, Egyptian sources say, but Hamas wants 2nd phase and end to war; Israel’s ...

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Another controversial figure in Israel’s new government is Aryeh Deri, head of the haredi Orthodox Shas party, who is set to become interior and health minister pending new legislation.

Earlier this year, the court used that justification to bar Aryeh Deri, a leading haredi Orthodox politician who has been repeatedly convicted of crimes, from being appointed to Netanyahu’s cabinet.

The Israeli negotiation team is expected to return from Cairo on Friday evening after a day of talks on extending the first ...

Kan 11 News reports that the mediators warned the Israeli delegation during negotiations in Cairo that if talks on the second ...

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Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri said, "Our hearts break over the tragic news of the murder of the beloved children, Ariel Bibas, age four, and his infant brother Kfir, just nine months old. May God ...