3+ day, 8+ hour ago  (321+ words) Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Monday sacked his chief of staff following the publication of leaked comments in which he allegedly made racist remarks. "Ziv Agmon will leave his post in the coming days once his successor, Ido Norden,…...

3+ day, 22+ hour ago  (517+ words) After criticism from both the opposition and his own party for keeping on his embattled spokesman and chief of staff, Ziv Agmon, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said late Sunday that he will be replaced in the coming days. Agmon had…...

1+ week, 11+ hour ago  (386+ words) The Likud Party filed a police complaint against Guy Peleg, legal reporter for Israel's Channel 12, after he accused Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of being as great a danger to Israel as the Iranian ballistic missile threat, during a Saturday evening…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (823+ words) The government's current conscription policies could lead to "national suicide," amid the IDF's manpower shortage, former prime minister Naftali Bennett told The Jerusalem Post on Tuesday, vowing to only form a government with those who serve and to restore Israel's…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (482+ words) Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chairman MK Boaz Bismuth announced that the controversial haredi (ultra-Orthodox) conscription bill is set to be advanced again amid the IDF manpower shortage after progress on the bill was halted during the war. Bismuth…...

1+ week, 2+ day ago  (761+ words) The chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, MK Boaz Bismuth, said on Monday that he would resume advancing a controversial bill that would enshrine sweeping exemptions from military conscription for Haredi yeshiva students, after briefly stopping work…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (865+ words) Former prime minister Naftali Bennett said Monday that should he win this year's election, he would launch an investigation into "the sabotage of Haredi enlistment," in a speech lambasting the government for sneaking new allocations to ultra-Orthodox institutions into the…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (587+ words) Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara on Monday blocked the transfer of some NIS 800 million ($255 million) to ultra-Orthodox educational institutions approved in a parliamentary ruse the previous night, asserting that the transfer likely violates High Court of Justice rulings against providing specific…...

1+ week, 3+ day ago  (441+ words) The opposition mistakenly voted in favor of amendments to the 2026 state budget that would allocate hundreds of millions of extra shekels to haredi (ultra-Orthodox) institutions, following a last-minute maneuver by the coalition in the Knesset plenum late Sunday night. Attorney-General…...

1+ week, 4+ day ago  (1101+ words) The Knesset voted to pass the largest state budget in Israel's history early Monday morning, growing the defense budget to unprecedented levels amid the war with Iran and sending billions of shekels to Haredi educational institutions and other priorities of…...