The Charedi Public Party says it will protect full-time Torah study while supporting military or national service for ultra-Orthodox men who are not studying in yeshivahs, address math and English instruction in haredi schools.
Israel
After 450 days of reserve duty and a shattered kneecap, Tuvia Eden is back farming—and plans to return to his IDF unit.
At the start of the new Jewish year, more than 10.3 million people live in Israel. New figures from the Central Bureau of Statistics show how the population has developed – from births and immigration to life expectancy.
Families, first responders and officials gather in Jerusalem to honor the victims and reaffirm the US-Israel bond.
Quinnipiac survey finds a narrow Palestinian lead over Israel, with the sharpest divide emerging along party lines.
PM Janez Janša attended the Ljubljana ceremony after reversing his predecessor’s sanctions and blocking an E.U. condemnation of the Jewish state.
“He is one of the righteous gentiles of the world,” Operation Benjamin co-founder Shalom Lamm told JNS about Dirk Backen, who helped bring the remains of a Jewish American soldier home and works to identify German Jewish soldiers mistakenly buried beneath crosses.
Petition urges government to open Judaism’s holiest site on the first day of the holiday, which falls on Shabbat this year, and allow the shofar to be sounded there.
Two more embassies open in Jerusalem • Foreign Minister Gideon Sa’ar on Israel’s new priorities in Africa and Latin America, relations with Turkey and Syria, as well as Gaza, Lebanon and the battle for international public opinion.
