Reform

Israel unveils High-Tech tax reform to bring talent home

8,300 Israelis working in the high-tech sector had left the country between October 2023 and July 2024,

People walk near office towers at a business park also housing high tech companies, at Ofer Park in Petah Tikva, Israel August 27, 2020
US President Donald Trump listens to Azerbaijan's President Ilham Aliyev as he speaks during a trilateral signing event with Armenia's Prime Minister Nikol Pashinyan (not pictured), at the White House, in Washington, DC, August 8, 2025.

Time for a reset: Amid institutional paralysis, Trump and Aliyev call for a UN overhaul - opinion

ANGELA BUCHDAHL in 2013. She was ordained as a cantor in 1999 at the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion before going on to become a rabbi.

'Yes! I am Jewish’: How a Jewish Korean princess was ordained as a rabbi - review

Britain's Reform UK Party leader Nigel Farage speaks at a news conference in London, Britain, August 4, 2025.

UK's Farage unveils plan to deport asylum seekers, warns of 'civil disorder’


Kashrut supervisors cook shrimp in protest against planned reforms

Kashrut supervisors cooked shrimp and held fake kashrut certificates in protest in front of the home of the religious affairs minister.

KASHRUT CERTIFICATION at a Jerusalem eatery – will the rabbinate’s monopoly be broken?

Grapevine: 'A city knit together'?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Rabbi Gilad Kariv at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, August 9, 2021.

Fundamental issues to Jewish nation to be tackled in Knesset winter session - analysis

In the new winter session of the Knesset, Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana will introduce legislation that will tackle the most sensitive issues to the Jewish nation.

 Minister of Religious Affairs Matan Kahana attends a plenary session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, July 26, 2021.

IDF disabled vets treatment reform: Hotline to operate 24/7

As part of the "One Soul" reform of services the Defense Ministry provides IDF veterans suffering from trauma, a support hotline will operate 24/7 at *8944.

 Israeli soldiers

Gantz approves new work compensation for disabled IDF veterans

The steps taken to assist the rehabilitation of disabled IDF veterans have been coming thick and fast since the "One Soul" reform was approved in May.

 Defense Minister Benny Gantz at Knesset meeting, September 5, 2021.

Public organizations protest regulation reform in letter to Knesset

The letter written to the Knesset joins ministers in protest against the reduction of regulation.

Cabinet meeting on August 2 where the budget was approved

Leader of Reform Jewry Richard Hirsch dies in Florida at 95

Hirsch was eulogized by President Isaac Herzog who said he was deeply saddened to learn of Hirsch’s passing.

Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch 311

Protesting Israeli farmers damage Lebanon border fence

Farmers demonstrating against planned agricultural reforms damaged the border fence with Lebanon.

 Farmers protest along border with Lebanon, August 17, 2021

Reform movement investigating itself over rabbinic sexual misconduct

After a series of high-profile revelations about sexual misconduct within its ranks, the world’s largest Jewish denomination initiated investigations into how it has dealt with allegations.

Portrait of Russian Jalena Rubinstein, the first reform female rabbi

A time of hope, reform to heal Israel's religious divides - opinion

While the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and its resolution occupies the attention of the outside world, it is the fissures in Israeli society that are of growing concern.

MK MOSHE GAFNI is removed from the Knesset plenum by a security guard earlier this week.