With some restrictions rolled back and more relaxing of rules on the way, virus stats are encouraging, but deaths are still accumulating and the social fabric has ruptured

Haredi towns provoking anger, prompting ‘turning point’ for Israel and its politics, says former MK who leads Israel Democracy Institute

Yehuda Meshi-Zahav says many ultra-Orthodox are fighting virus, but a worrying number refuse and won't reconsider even as death toll rises and hatred of community spreads

How did Israel become world’s first country reimposing lockdown? It's not just a story of rising infections, but also of fragile religious-secular relations, nervous politicians

Beitar Ilit's Meir Rubinstein, Elad's Israel Porush go to Ukrainian city, home to a Hasidic pilgrimage site, after their cities put under curfew and days ahead of national lockdown

Video showing man dressed as railway employee preventing couple from boarding a train meant to highlight ultra-Orthodox city being left out of Tel Aviv metro plans

Hundreds of guests crowd indoor event hall, ignoring Health Ministry guidelines; Porush's office says he was there 'for only a few minutes,' calls on populace to follow rules

Despite embrace of mask wearing and social distancing, Haredi neighborhoods hit hard by second wave of coronavirus pandemic

While others were distracted by annexations, rotations and newfangled ministries, Shas and UTJ quietly won control over key ministries and major bottlenecks of economic policy

Why would the heavenly power permit such evil? Posters see punishment for gossip and women's immodesty; rabbis spy signs of messiah's coming; others say they just don't know