Freedom of religion in israel

Education Ministry establishes guidelines guaranteeing students' rights to lay tefillin in schools

The directive aimed to establish clear, uniform rules and provide school principals with a guided framework to facilitate the policy's implementation throughout the public school system.

A man puts on a tefillin in Washington Square Park in Manhattan on June 19, 2026 in New York City. Tefillin are a Jewish traditional ritual object, believed to be an approximately 2000 year old tradition.
People watch Macy's Fourth of July fireworks as the United States celebrates its 250th anniversary, from a ship at Brooklyn Bridge Marina, in New York City, US, July 4, 2026

Coast Guard removes environmentalist ship from US 250th anniversary parade over political banners

Scribe Nadav Elhadad writes a Torah scroll at Safed’s Mount Sinai Institute, in Feb.

Shavuot and Mount Sinai: Why modern Jews still wrestle with the Torah

Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas addresses the general Conference of Fatah Youth in Ramallah, with a backdrop including a portrait of Abbas and Yasser Arafat, November 27, 2025; illustrative.

PA drafts constitution, omits Jewish ties to Jerusalem, calls for Sharia legal system


Columnist can’t find ‘apartheid’ in Israel

Jews, Muslims, Christians living in freedom in the Holy Land, FrontPage's Joseph Puder writes.

Mirvat, a second grade school girl, practices her oud at the Hand in Hand Arab Jewish bilingual school in Jerusalem.

In search of religious leadership

The toxic combination of religion and politics in Israel has led to a broad estrangement of Israelis from the state institutions of religion.

Prayer at Western Wall

High Court rules to allow Tel Aviv stores to remain open on Shabbat

The ruling comes more than three years after the Tel Aviv municipal authority first approved a new bylaw legalizing the opening of such stores.

Cofix’s new grocery store

A Passover Swim with Big Fish in the Jerusalem Pool and Beyond

The Jerusalem Post

Israeli journalist calls religious Zionists more dangerous than Hezbollah

Defense Minister Liberman called for a boycott against Haaretz, Israel's sixth-largest Hebrew daily newspaper.

Hezbollah members carry mock rockets next to a poster of the group's leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah [FIle]

Born again

An uncompromising search for truth drives a couple to give up a spacious home and a culture of good manners in the American South.

Mordechai and Avigayle Frankewich

A threat to the foundations of Jewish peoplehood

Leaving issues of religion and state to an ultra-Orthodox monopoly is leading to estrangement between Israel and the Diaspora. New arrangements must be reached.

A man wears a kippa embroidered with US and Israeli flags

Likud MK joins legislative fight against Reform, Conservative Jews

The MK’s bill says that there is a need to define the prayer areas of the Western Wall, the authority to conduct prayer services and to “prevent offending the sensitivities of the worshippers."

Western Wall

EU court allows religious symbol ban in headscarf ruling

The Court of Justice (ECJ) gave a joined judgment in the cases of two women, in France and Belgium, who were dismissed for refusing to remove headscarves.

Woman in hijab in france

Why can't Israel's PM say 'God bless Israel'?

Politics need to be stripped of religion. When that happens, people will be able to enjoy the basic rights every democracy is meant to provide its citizens.

US President Donald Trump.