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Netanyahu halts meetings on haredi draft bill, sparking opposition fury

The first discussion to present the outline of the newly updated bill had been slated for Monday.

|ByKESHET NEEV
MK Boaz Bismuth, chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, September 17, 2025.
MK Elazar Stern attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on June 26, 2024.

Guy Lerer, Channel 13 to pay NIS 410,000 in damages to Elazar Stern for defamation, court rules

The court emphasized that the impact of these defamatory statements was compounded by their timing, as Stern was a candidate for a prominent public role at the time.

|ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Yesh Atid leader Yair Lapid seen with MK Elazar Stern at a press conference in Tel Aviv

Yesh Atid MK defies Lapid, calls for unity government with Netanyahu

Elazar Stern's faction leader and opposition head Yair Lapid said that a unity government with Netanyahu's Likud would "ruin the country."

|ByTROY O. FRITZHAND, JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Head of the Religious Zionist Party MK Bezalel Smotrich speaks next to Head of opposition Benjamin Netanyahu during a meeting with the opposition parties at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, on June 28, 2021.

Likud-RZP agreement: IDF chief rabbi appointed by Sephardic chief rabbi – report

The IDF chief rabbi will be promoted in rank and will answer on halakhic matters to Israel's Rabbinate.

|ByELIAV BREUER

Israel should take in refugees fleeing Mideast carnage, Yesh Atid lawmaker says

Stern made the remarks against the backdrop of heart-breaking images from Europe, which is struggling with its biggest refugee crisis since World War Two.

SEPTEMBER 4, 2015ByJPOST.COM STAFF
Hungarian policemen stand by the family of migrants as they wanted to run away at the railway station in the town of Bicske

MK Stern: Defection of nat-relig rabbis to Yishai could increase hardline rabbinical influence

MK Elazar Stern draws criticism on Tekuma-Bayit Yehudi alliance, says next Knesset likely prone to religious influence.

DECEMBER 22, 2014ByJEREMY SHARON
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