United Torah Judaism
Knesset panel advances bill to expand rabbinical courts’ power over civil matters
Critics have warned of the bill's democratic implications, including those involving women's rights, which may deepen the rift between the haredi and secular communities.
High Court: Israeli gov't must explain why it funds haredi schools without core studies
Lapid warns opposition could lose to Netanyahu without unity, says Yesh Atid is ‘key’ to victory
Haredi draft bill could trigger 'collapse' of Israel's Right in elections, aliyah minister warns
Knesset votes to split Arrangements Bill amid haredi parties' threats over state budget
The two parties threatened to vote against the coalition amid disagreements over the controversial haredi draft bill being advanced in the Knesset.
State to High Court: Education data on haredi core studies incomplete, disputes A-G’s framing
At the January hearing, the High Court ordered the state to submit all documents in its possession relating to core-curriculum instruction in the networks.
Knesset advances 2026 state budget in first reading amid coalition crisis over haredi draft
The Degel Hatorah faction within United Torah Judaism received a green light from spiritual leader Rabbi Dov Lando to vote in favor of the state budget, Lando's office said.
Outcome of state budget vote uncertain amid coalition crisis over haredi draft
By law, if the state budget is not approved in all three readings by the end of March, when the fiscal year closes, the Knesset will automatically dissolve, and elections will be called.
2026 budget reading puts government at risk, after months of ideological sparring - analysis
If the vote is postponed, or if the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties choose not to support it and it falls, then for all intents and purposes the government will fall with it.
Netanyahu convenes emergency meeting as haredi parties threaten to block state budget vote
Both haredi parties have threatened to withhold support for the state budget unless agreements are reached on the draft law to avoid conscription.
Not just 'anyone but Bibi': Israel is in election mode, but where is the ideology? - editorial
Israel's political parties should run campaigns focused on offering real ideas and alternatives. That is how political movements grow and how politics regain substance.
Government submits 2026 budget to Knesset, Smotrich vows passage despite rifts
Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich said that the government was "determined to pass it [the state budget] on first reading,” during a press conference at the Knesset on Monday.
Netanyahu to appoint UTJ’s Yisrael Eichler to gov’t role to pass contentious haredi draft bill
The move will reportedly allow Yitzhak Pindrus, from the Degel Hatorah faction, to return to the Knesset as well, after he had previously been pushed off the United Torah Judaism Party list.
IDF draft equality is minimum condition to restore Israeli solidarity - editorial
The Israel-Hamas War did not only take bodies; it took spirit. It took marriages, jobs, sleep, and the sense that someone competent is steering.
