MK Israel Eichler (United Torah Judaism) launched a diatribe against the Reform Movement and the High Court of Justice over the court’s decision that people who did not convert through the state-sanctioned, Orthodox system must not be denied the right to immerse in public ritual baths.
A young Israeli woman died Thursday in Peru after traveling in the country’s western Huaraz region, the Foreign Ministry announced.
An Israeli woman in her 30s was killed Wednesday in a skydiving accident near the Czech Republic’s capital city Prague.
Hadas Ayyish, a 60-year-old resident of Kiryat Tivon, was killed when her raft capsized on the Cahabon river in Guatemala during the course of a group tour.
The celebrated Israeli singer and songwriter Meir Banai died on Thursday evening at age 55.
Jerusalem – A religious Zionist cleric from a Jewish settlement on the West Bank told mourners on Saturday during the funeral of an Israeli father and son gunned down by Palestinian terrorists that the attacks in Paris were deserved due to what Europeans “did to our people 70 years ago.”
Har Nof, Israel – After having been abruptly disinvited by one haredi school in Jerusalem, President Reuven Rivlin opened the school year at another haredi school in the capital’s Har Nof neighborhood with a message to the pupils that study was crucial to enabling citizens to contribute to the society they live in.
President Reuven Rivlin attended a bat mitzvah party Tuesday for the granddaughter of businessman David Appel, who was released from prison over a year ago after serving time for three counts of bribing senior officials.
Israel Police broke up a wedding in the central Israel city of Lod because the bride was 14 years old.
Motti Zisser, a prominent Israeli businessman, philanthropist, and member of the national-religious community, passed away overnight following a long battle with cancer.
