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Shas chairman Aryeh Deri threatened on Sunday to bring down the government unless it passes a conscription law exempting yeshiva students from military service. Speaking with ultra-Orthodox radio ...

Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the Israeli sage who founded the Sephardic Orthodox Shas political party and exercised major influence on Jewish law, died Monday in Jerusalem at the age of 93. TEL AVIV (JTA ...

Shas Chairman Arye Deri called on Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to move to the second phase of the deal with Hamas to ensure that every hostage returns to Israel on Monday at a faction meeting ...

While Shas chairman Aryeh Deri threatened to go to elections if the army draft status of yeshiva students is not regulated by law within two months, the Degel Hatorah faction of the United Torah ...

Knesset Education Committee Chairman MK Yossi Taieb (Shas) said on Tuesday that if the IDF summoned his son to be drafted, he would obey the rabbis and not report for duty. "My son is in the same ...

In a incredible show of dedication and diligence, 16-year-old Motti Abenaim, a Talmid at Yeshivas Oholei Yosef Yitzchok ...

Opposition leader Yair Lapid and Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef spoke Tuesday evening about future political cooperation, KAN News reported Wednesday. During the conversation ...