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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at his side, and other coalition ministers and MKs celebrate the passage of the state budget in the Knesset, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Sharon Wrobel
Analysis
Sharon Wrobel
Netanyahu’s fat man, thin man and the burden of the new state budget
As more funds are funnelled to the ultra-Orthodox community, other budgets for investment in high-tech are reduced; reforms for tackling high cost of living are suffering
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray in Meron, April 10, 2023. (David Cohen/ Flash90)
June 11, 2023, 8:34 pm
Ministers advance bill that would criminalize incitement against ultra-Orthodox
Proposed legislation would expand 1977 anti-racism laws to include penalties against those charged with crimes based on color, national-ethnic background, and anti-Haredi bias
By ToI Staff and Carrie Keller-Lynn
A composite picture featured on the Haredi news site JDN features a candle flame instead of the portrait of Lia Ben Nun, who was killed along with two male soldiers guarding Israel's southern border on June 3, 2023. (Screen capture taken from JDN.co.il)
June 5, 2023, 3:21 pm
Women’s rights group decries Haredi site not showing slain female soldier’s picture
Na’amat urges Facebook users to change their profile pictures to Lia Ben Nun’s image with a banner reading: ‘Hero. No one will erase her face’
By Canaan Lidor
An AI bot to generate cheesecake recipes is meant to prove that artificial intelligence can have a place in Orthodox communities. (Illustration by Mollie Suss/JTA)
May 25, 2023, 4:55 pm
App that can generate 64,000 kosher cheesecake recipes pitches AI to Orthodox Jews
The Brooklyn marketing exec behind CheesecakeWizard.AI walks a fine line in an insular, internet-averse community, shopping the new tech only to those who already use the net
By PHILISSA CRAMER
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, with Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich at his side, and other coalition ministers and MKs celebrate the passage of the state budget in the Knesset, May 23, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 24, 2023, 11:13 pm
Netanyahu’s fat man, thin man and the burden of the new state budget
As more funds are funnelled to the ultra-Orthodox community, other budgets for investment in high-tech are reduced; reforms for tackling high cost of living are suffering
By Sharon Wrobel
Ultra-Orthodox men protest against an indoor play center in the northern town of Harish for operating on Shabbat, May 20, 2023. (Screenshot: Twitter; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
May 20, 2023, 11:04 pm
2 arrested for assault while protesting indoor play center open on Shabbat
Ultra-Orthodox suspects in Harish allegedly attack woman, lightly hurting her; police say they expect to make additional arrests
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu leads the weekly Likud party meeting at the Menachem Begin Heritage Center in Jerusalem on March 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 20, 2023, 1:05 am
Support for Netanyahu goes up, but voters unhappy with policies for Haredim — poll
Prime minister overtakes Gantz in public support after latest Gaza flare-up, Channel 12 survey says; 63% say premier ‘surrendered to the ultra-Orthodox’ in budget talks
By ToI Staff
FILE: Israeli model and TV host Galit Gutman hosts the "Israel Calling" concert in Tel Aviv's Rabin square on April 10, 2018, (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
May 19, 2023, 6:11 pm
TV host slammed for calling Haredim ‘bloodsuckers’ during panel on state budget
Galit Gutman issues apology after facing widespread criticism for accusing right-religious coalition of ‘simply milking its citizens’
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study in the Lithuanian Slabodka yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, July 8, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
May 9, 2023, 8:51 pm
Stipends for married yeshiva students to nearly double in state budget – reports
Other projects set to receive millions of shekels include education program to counter Jewish assimilation abroad and advice on Orthodox family purity
By ToI Staff
The Orot Rabin Israel Electric Corporation coal-powered power plant, on the Mediterranean coast in the city of Hadera, May 10 2009. (Yossi Zamir/Flash90)
May 6, 2023, 11:49 pm
Government said set to discuss controversial ‘kosher electricity’ plans Sunday
Bill aims to build energy storage units to be used by Haredi community during the Sabbath, instead of polluting, unsafe generators
By ToI Staff
File: Housing and Construction Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf attends a conference in Tel Aviv on March 22, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 4, 2023, 2:14 am
Government will ‘fall apart’ without law on Haredi military exemption, warns minister
As the PM drags his feet on the issue, UTJ officials tell ultra-Orthodox weekly that an ‘alternative’ coalition can be formed
By ToI Staff and Jeremy Sharon
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, right, shakes hands with United Torah Judaism MKs Yisrael Eichler, center and Meir Porush in the Knesset, January 25, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
May 2, 2023, 11:40 pm
Netanyahu’s Haredi allies turn up heat, reiterate demand for military exemption law
UTJ minister Porush tells PM to go home if he can’t keep coalition deal vow to pass law before budget approval; fellow MK threatens party may avoid voting for crucial state budget
By Jeremy Sharon and ToI Staff
The OpenAI logo is seen on a cellphone in front of a computer screen displaying the ChatGPT home screen, in Boston, on March 17, 2023. (Michael Dwyer/AP)
May 2, 2023, 10:25 am
Skver Hasidic movement bans use of artificial intelligence as window to ‘heresy’
New York-based traditionalist sect says AI chatbots and ChatGPT in particular are open to limitless abominations
By Jackie Hajdenberg
(JTA illustration)
March 28, 2023, 12:47 am
Inside the New York auction house driving the rare-book craze in the Orthodox world
Behavior that confounds veterans of the rare Jewish book market has become routine at auctions organized by Genazym as it taps into emerging luxury market among Orthodox Jews
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Fraidy Reiss is the founder and executive director of Unchained At Last, a non-profit that’s been battling arranged and forced marriages for the past 12 years. (Photo copyright Susan Landman via JTA)
March 24, 2023, 4:23 am
A fake reality show trailer shines light on the real issue of US child marriage
Founded by a former Haredi woman, the organization Unchained at Last releases ‘Unseen Housewives’ to raise awareness that such arrangements are still legal in 43 states
By Jon Kalish
Minister within the Education Ministry Haim Biton arrives for the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on January 22, 2023. (Olivier Fitoussi/FLASH90)
February 9, 2023, 3:41 am
Ultra-Orthodox minister says public should ‘be afraid’ of growing community size
Participants in local authorities’ education conference walk out as Haim Biton claims high Haredi birth rate has defeated alleged efforts to suppress community
By ToI Staff
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