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Rabbis Demand Hands Off Hesder Yeshivot, As Teens Join Protests Reported: 22:32 PM - Nov/22/09 Follow Israel news briefs on and (IsraelNN.com) Dozens of rabbis of the national-religious movement met Sunday night in Jerusalem to discuss the problems facing the...

Gabi Ashkenazi addressed the recent rash of Kfir Brigade protests against settlement evacuations, by declaring that "there is no room for insubordination in the IDF." Ashkenazi, during a visit Sunday to the Tel Hashomer military absorption center, along with members...

IsraelNN.com) The Knesset Labor, Welfare and Health Committee is scheduled to discuss a government proposal on Monday to increase the enforcement of labor laws. The bill proposes imposition of fines up to 35,000 shekels on employers who violate the law.

Who have paid no attention whatsoever to a week of violence between Algerians and Egyptians that included stonings and death threats, are up in arms over the building of 900 housing units in the Gilo neighborhood in Jerusalem. The Obama...

Israel appeared to edge closer to choosing a new attorney-general on Sunday as the cabinet approved the initiative of Defense Minister Ehud Barak that Menahem Mazuz's successor be chosen from the four candidates who were each recommended by three members...

For a second Saturday in a row, ultra-Orthodox Jews rallied outside an Intel computer chip plant in Jerusalem, protesting work done on the Sabbath, police said. Two demonstrators were arrested after some protesters confronted police and Intel security personnel, shouting...

The government on Sunday passed a bill in the first reading, which aims to combat the phenomenon of girls avoiding being drafted into the IDF by pretending to be religious. The bill calls for surveillance of the young women after...

Arab Knesset member Ahmad Tibi said on Friday that the Israeli municipality of the annexed city is preparing to build 15,000 new housing units, mainly in areas beyond the Green Line in the occupied West Bank. The news comes on...

An act of insubordination was thwarted at the last minute in the Kfir Brigade's Training Base on Thursday after commanders discovered a sign reading "Kfir Does Not Expel Jews" drying in the sun, moments before soldiers planned to hang it...