Yair Ettinger

The former Shas member did everything he could to provoke Shas into a direct confrontation. Shas has avoided such a confrontation so far, but there is a chance it will react.

'I give the cease-fire maybe a week,' says one resident.

Scharf, her husband, and their three children were the main Chabad emissaries in Pune, India; Amsalem was a newly religious Jew studying in yeshiva; Aharon Smadja was a 'guy who only how to do good for people'.

The state's representative told the court the purpose of the funding was to involve yeshiva students in the labor market.

United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni drops hints about Shas leader Aryeh Deri's past criminal conviction at pan-Haredi political conference.

Eli Cohen Maimon, 45, has been imprisoned in Thailand since 2004 for murdering his ex-wife and dismembering her body while the two were vacationing in Bangkok.

State expected to tell court that payments will 'reduce the gaps between the ultra-Orthodox and the rest of Israeli society.'

The spiritual leader of Shas didn't steal the show - he was the show - at the launching of party's election campaign.

Aaron Leibowitz is backing restaurants' right to call themselves kosher without the trouble and expense of obtaining rabbinate supervision.

Shas officials are preparing for a huge conference at Jerusalem's International Convention Center Saturday night.

Top campaign aide to Shas star blasts Likud-Yisrael Beiteinu joint list as a 'white' party.

The political landscape is being changed by the arrival of new Haredi players, who are threatening the old order.

Economist Shlomo Maoz to run with Likud; Nachman Shai defects to Labor; Dov Lipman linked to Yesh Atid.

Some eateries observe dietary laws, but refuse to follow Rabbinate procedures.

Recently returned Shas politician Aryeh Deri also advises party to downplay its treatment of African refugees in Israel.

The removal of Shas's chairman seems strange when taking into account his special relations with Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Shas spiritual leader who safeguarded his leadership for the past 13 years.

Ending a 13 year rift between Eli Yishai and Aryeh Deri, leadership of the ultra-Orthodox party, often the kingmaker in coalitions, will be shared.

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef wants to bring Deri back, despite his past corruption convictions and opposition by current party leader Eli Yishai; renegade former Shas MK sets up independent party.

Former Shas party leaders Deri and Yishai cross paths as Shas intrigue heightens.

Ultra-Orthodox parties may find it hard to preserve their current combined 16 Knesset seats in the next government, due to internal rifts.

Leaders of Reform and Conservative movements in Israel to compete for places on existing parties' slates ahead of next Knesset election.

Chaim Shaulson, who made a career out of airing ultra-Orthodox dirty laundry in print, has started a successful blog he claims serves as a deterrent in his community.

IDF, Israel Police, and Magen David Adom prepare for the 25-hour Yom Kippur fast; IDF imposes closure on West Bank.

There's no Jewish legal problem with bikes (so long it's not on Shabbes or holidays), but the relationship between ultra-Orthodox Jews and bikes still hasn't blossomed.

The holiest day in the Jewish calendar may be a fast day, but that doesn't mean food isn't a key element.