Moshe Gafni of United Torah Judaism says election loss for premier will be a 'disaster,' but his party's loyalty pledge to him has 'no meaning'

Knesset Finance Committee hears previously undisclosed sum, also approves $598 million for other aspects of COVID-19 response

Ramping up rhetoric in race’s final leg, leaders of the Haredi and secular parties see in each other the perfect nemesis to drive turnout among their supporters

Israel’s religious conservatives have spent the week warning of nonexistent conversion drives among migrants and foreigners, while ignoring the conversion crisis closer to home

Referring to outrage over video implying non-Orthodox streams would even recognize dogs as Jewish, Gafni says he'd have made a 'much worse' clip featuring foreign workers

UTJ chairman says MK Yitzhak Pindrus was wrong to use the pejorative term, but insists ultra-Orthodox rabbis should be the authority on conversions to Judaism

But Moshe Gafni walks out of Channel 12 interview while denying Haredim are disproportionately violating health rules: 'I don't accept this incitement, we've had it'

Moshe Gafni to take over at helm of ultra-Orthodox party, with Litzman in second spot; Shas No. 2 Yitzhak Cohen to retire from politics

The focus of growing anger, and increasingly frustrated in turn at the government's lax enforcement of virus rules, the ultra-Orthodox are now a political time bomb

Ignoring pleas by Bnei Brak residents, fire crew stationed down the street refused to intervene, citing police orders; fire burned through power lines, approached buildings