National religious

Increasing enlistment among young women from national-religious sector flies in the face of a campaign by hard-line rabbis against the trend.

It seems that at the next council, the national religious sector will be headed by two religious representatives who share almost all the same ideals but don’t speak to each other.

Educating students on Darwin’s theory of evolution—especially with regard to mankind’s common origins—can be tricky in Israel, teachers say.

An encounter with Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe

The letter comes as activists for tighter oversight of arms sales to foreign countries staged a demonstration in the Rose Garden in front of the Knesset on Tuesday evening.

Rontski was amongst the founders of the Itamar settlement in 1984, and served for some years as its municipal chief rabbi.

The rabbis oppose religious men serving in close quarters to women, seeing it as contravening a religious lifestyle and even as endangering their religious identity.

The video has a voiceover by female soldiers repeating frequent claims by rabbis in the religious Zionist movement, such as that women have no physical strength.

Gabbay also castigated hard-line rabbis for their silence in the face of corruption by public officials on the Right.

The campaign involves high-school girls getting photographed with a message calling on the Education Ministry “not to interfere” with their education.