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Israel no longer has chief rabbis after ministry fails to hold timely elections

The Religious Services Ministry failed to hold elections in time to reinstate the tenure of chief rabbis.

 ASHKENAZI CHIEF Rabbi David Lau (left) and Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: The silence of our two chief rabbis is thunderously indicative of the abject state of these once meaningful and relevant positions, the writer argues.
 Al Jazeera presenter Abdelkader Aiad works during a live newscast at a studio, in Doha, Qatar, May 5, 2024.

Al Jazeera’s Jerusalem bureau chief on shutting site in Israel: 'There are no security reasons'

 Israeli couple tries to smuggle iPhones into country to avoid taxation

Beersheba couple attempts smuggling 173 iPhones into Israel, arrested

 ORN AND raised in Jerusalem, 48-year-old Dana Shemesh has been Israel's top female professional bodybuilder for almost two decades.

Israeli bodybuilder Dana Shemesh back and as good as ever


City Notes: Haifa hosts first Limmuf in parallel with Uruguay

During the event, a live-link, Transatlantic session was held with Limmud Boston, Haifa’s twin city.

A young girl looks down over the city of Haifa.

Hookah smokers are inhaling benzene

High levels of benzene, a chemical in crude oil and gasoline, are present in hookah smokers and nonsmokers after they attend social events where the water pipes are used, a new report says.

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Rivlin: Jewish state law questions success of Zionist enterprise

“Does this proposal not in fact encourage us to seek contradiction between the Jewish and democratic characters of the state?" asked the president.

President Reuven Rivlin

Mild blows may cause major head injuries

In the NFL, other professional sports, and especially school sports, concern has grown about the long-term neuropsychiatric mconsequences of repeated mild trauatic brain injury.

Football players [illustrative]

Two Israeli films make the Oscar short list

The films are Summer Vacation by Tal Granit and Sharon Maymon, who recently directed The Farewell Party, which won an audience award at the Venice Film Festival and Aya.

The Beit Shmuel cultural complex in Jerusalem will be opening a new movie theater in conjunction with the Orlando Cinemas chain.

Touting the management of Gaza war reporting

Israel has learned to not merely turn the other cheek but to pursue better coverage, claim spokesmen

BEN-DROR YEMINI, ‘Yediot Aharonot’ commentator, criticizes coverage of the recent war on Hamas by journalists such as ‘New York Times’ bureau chief Jodi Rudoren, on his left.

Yeshiva students attacked in A-Tur

Police looking into incident that lightly wounded two Jewish men in their twenties.

Shaare Zedek Hospital

‘Post’ leads the way with new podcast

Frontlines broadcast gives insider perspective on what’s going on behind the headlines.

JPost podcast logo

Netanyahu invites Left, haredim to join unity government

Labor and Meretz turned down the offer.

Netanyahu at cabinet meeting

Histadrut threatens general strike at month's end

Bill to limit strikes advances

Money [illustrative]