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Chief Rabbinate

Avigdor Liberman in the Kikar HaShabbat studio
WATCH: The full plan

Liberman: PM to pick one Chief Rabbi

Yisrael Beiteinu chairman will demand dramatic Rabbinate reform in any coalition he joins: abolish the electoral assembly, end the Ashkenazi-Sephardi split, and let the prime minister appoint a single Chief Rabbi, with one new condition.

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Shechita at the Netanya slaughterhouse

Good news for consumers

82 new shochatim approved to cut meat costs

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Yehuda Avidan

Following incitement claim

Rabbinate chief demands probe of reporter

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The ambassador with the Chief Rabbis

Special relationship

Huckabee visits Chief Rabbis for Sukkos

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Enough Is Enough

"We've Reached A Breaking Point": Shochtim Take Rabbinate To Supreme Court

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Kosher certification process

The Kashrut Wars

Chief Rabbi: Private Kashrut Bodies Chase Profit

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Israel's Supreme Court

Ball's in their court

Religious Zionist Rabbis Call to Defy High Court Rulings That Contradict Halacha

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The Western Wall seen from the rooftop of Aish Hatorah, July 2025

Battle heats up

Stormy Knesset Hearing Erupts Over Western Wall Law 

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Aliyah Flight, 2024

Up and away

Law of Return Amendment Would Limit Aliya to Halachic Jews

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Eyal Zionov

NEW ROBE, SAME ATTENTION

COSTUME CHANGE: Zionov Drops Chief Rabbi Garb After Uproar

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Tel Aviv cityscape

Shas v. Shas

Tel Aviv to Elect New City Rabbi Amid Controversy

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Rabbi David Yosef

Are you for Israel?

The High Court Ruled on Shabbat - Rabbis are Furious

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Megilah Reading on Purim

Venishmartem Meod Benafshoteichem

PURIM UNDER FIRE: Chief Rabbis Issue Urgent Safety Ruling

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Western Wall

Sacred authority

Knesset Moves to Give Chief Rabbinate Full Control over Western Wall 

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Rabbi Amar

State's religious authority

Former Chief Rabbi Amar Blasts High Court Decision on Female Rabbis

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Butchery

Kashrut Alert

Urgent Recall: Thousands of Tons of Non-Kosher Beef Distributed in Israel

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Destroyed tefilin at Beit Yosef.

Despicable

Outrage in Givatayim: Unknown Suspect Desecrates Tefillin, Tallit and Siddurim Outside Synagogue

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Beit Din. Illustration.

Crazy Story

Unprecedented: Received presidential pardon and gave his wife a get after 22 years

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Chief Rabbi.

Indeed, It Is

Chief Rabbi on Antisemitism: "Israel's Survival is Divine"

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sraeli soldiers at the forensic center in the Shura military base near Ramle, where hundreds of dead bodies arrived since the start of the war with Gaza, October 24, 2023.

Horrific

350 bags of unidentified body parts from October 7 linger at Shura Base, caught in a political tug of war  

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