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Shas leader and Interior Minister Aryeh Deri (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
Aryeh Deri, the minister of the interior and head of the Shas ultra-Orthodox party, indicated in a Thursday evening radio interview, hours before the Meron tragedy, that he had blocked Health Ministry efforts to impose restrictions on the event, Channel 13 reports.
The TV station broadcasts an excerpt from the Thursday interview, with Radio Kol Hai, in which Deri says he “of course would not allow” the planned regulations to be introduced, and complains that the ministry was still trying to get the rules imposed as late as Wednesday night.
Inspired by the pandemic, Jewish musicians are rolling out a year s worth of spiritual healing songs
April 30, 2021
Shir Yaakov Feit sings the first of 70 melodies he wrote for the book of Psalms at the beginning of the pandemic.
(JTA) - It was only about a week into lockdown last spring when Elana Brody took out her keyboard piano for a jam session. It was late at night, so it made sense that the new melody that came to her then was B shem Hashem a part of the Shema. It was kind of natural to want to sing this prayer because it s a bedtime prayer, Brody said, calling it an incantation of sorts.
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United Torah Judaism leader Moshe Gafni gives a press statement after meeting with President Reuven Rivlin at the President s Residence in Jerusalem on April 5, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s longtime ultra-Orthodox allies increasingly believe he will fail to put together a majority coalition following last month’s elections, and fear a government that excludes them may be later established, according to a Thursday report.
The United Torah Judaism and Shas parties are concerned that a potential coalition of the premier’s opponents will upend the status quo on religious issues, as began to happen under a government led by Netanyahu from 2013-2015, when the Haredi parties were last in the opposition, the Ynet news site reported.
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