Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his coalition survived an attempt to dissolve Knesset as ultra-Orthodox lawmakers reach a compromise with a Likud leader over military exemptions.

The dissolution bill was defeated after the coalition reached a deal with ultra-Orthodox parties on a proposal to regulate the military draft of haredi men.The post Netanyahu government defeats bill ...

By bnm Tel Aviv bureau Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has avoided the collapse of his government after reaching a ...

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's government survived an attempt to dissolve parliament early Thursday morning, ...

The bill to disperse the Knesset was voted down 53-61 at about 3 a.m., and as a consequence, opposition parties will not be ...

Opposition goes ahead with doomed vote in bid to strip leverage from Shas and UTJ, who had warned they would support toppling ...

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He called Eretz HaKodesh a “fraud” that ignores the rulings of Haredi leaders. Brother’s keeper Mercaz USA has said that it “does not control Hess or Mercaz Olami and should not be ...

The Israeli, Hebrew-language website Kikar HaShabbat stated that its investigation found that Mercaz USA either paid journalists and those associated with influential rabbis, or sought to do so, to ...

In a modest hall in Jerusalem on Wednesday evening, dozens of Haredi mothers—whose sons serve in the Israel Defense Forces—gathered for what organizers and attendees alike called a historic ...

Shlomo Fuchs, a haredi Israeli accused of harassing a female soldier for her refusal to move to the back of a bus, is released on bail in Jerusalem, Dec. 30, 2011. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90/JTA) (JTA) — ...