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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 08/24/2008
In an urgent letter sent to Prime Minister Ehud Olmert from Shas leader Minister Eli Yishai, telling him the current proposed 2009 state budget is unacceptable and as such, the Shas Party is compelled to oppose it when presented to the cabinet on Sunday. Shas’ main objection is the planned NIS 500 million cut in [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 08/06/2008
Shas Party leader Minister Eli Yishai in response to Tuesday’s announcement ending aliyah from Ethiopia called the decision scandalous and discriminatory, stating outright the needs of the Ethiopian community are addressed with a different standard due to their skin color. State Comptroller Micha Lindenstrauss called on the powers that be to hold off making such a [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 07/28/2008
Shas leader Minister Eli Yishai is busy drumming up support for a broad-based government that agrees on social issues, primarily the party’s monthly child allowance payments, which is of paramount importance to Shas lawmakers as well as the party’s rabbinical council. Yishai views the current political situation as a timely occurrence, hoping to introduce his social [...]
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Yoni the Blogger (Free subscription) | 06/24/2008
Olmert courts Shas ahead of dissolution vote Prime minister tries tempting religious party with NIS 1.5 billion in attempt to prevent approval of Knesset dissolution bill Attila Somfalvi Prime Minister Ehud Olmert met Monday evening with Shas Chairman Eli Yishai...
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/22/2008
A new initiative is calling on designing a “Sheirut Leumi” (National Service) for unemployed adults under the banner “community service for adults”. The draft has been handed to Minister of Welfare & Social Services Yitzchak Herzog and Minister of Industry & Trade Eli Yishai by the “Yedid” (Friend) organization, hoping it will be adopted by [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/16/2008
Shas Party leader Minister Eli Yishai warned against limiting construction in the Yerushalayim area, responding to remarks from visiting US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice that areas in the Jerusalem area over the Green Line will not remain under Israeli control in the final status agreement with the Palestinian Authority. Yishai stated that construction must continue [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/12/2008
Some government ministers spoke briefly to the media on Sunday, calling on the IDF to take action to bring an end to the increasing rocket attacks from Hamas-controlled Gaza into southern Israel. Shas’ Eli Yishai stated there are many qualitative targets that remain in Israel’s option list, and the time has come to strike some of [...]
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Israelated (Free subscription) | 06/10/2008
1. "We must act, the question is in what way," Industry, Trade, and Labor Minister Eli Yishai said during the weekly cabinet meeting. "It is impossible to accept a virtual calm, but if this will be a serious cease-fire, then there's room to talk."2. More explicit in his call for action was Construction and Housing Minister Ze'ev Boim, who said that "Israel must launch an operation against
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/05/2008
The Jerusalem Magistrate’s Court on Wednesday sentenced Rabbi Shmuel Ben-Atar to nine months in prison and a NIS 100,000 fine for illegally operating the Kol HaEmet Radio station. Among those present in the courtroom were Shas leader Minister Eli Yishai, Rav Uri Zohar, and chareidi actor Shuli Rand. They were all character witnesses on the rav’s [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Perhaps during the last months, Shas was providing the true safety net for Prime Minister Ehud Olmert’s coalition, but today, the picture is a different one. Shas leader Eli Yishai is indicating the party is about to leave the coalition since the prime minister and Finance Minister Roni Bar-On are unwilling to comply with Shas’ demands [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
It appears Rav Ovadia Yosef Shlita has given Shas leader Eli Yishai the green light to break away from the coalition over the monthly child allowance issue but before a final determination is made, the party’s Council of Torah Sages will meet towards the end of the week or immediate after Shavuos. The council is headed [...]
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 05/30/2008
In a meeting between Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Shas Ministers Eli Yishai and Ariel Atias, Olmert stated, “Sorry, I cannot approve the funds for the child allowance. The Chilonim (secular) will kill me,” the weekly Mishpacha Magazine quotes the prime minister as saying. In the meantime, Shas has apparently come to the realization that Olmert [...]
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Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 05/27/2008
Shas is threatening to quit the government if child welfare payments are not increased. When party chairman Eli Yishai and minister Ariel Atias met Prime Minister Ehud Olmert and Finance Minister Roni Bar-On on Monday to discuss child welfare allocations, Yishai told them that this time Shas means business. ...
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Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 05/26/2008
United Torah Judaism MK Yaakov Litzman after checking into the matter reports that Prime Minister Ehud Olmert is doing a number of Shas, explaining the prime minister has not unfrozen construction in Betar Illit as he promised Shas leader Minister Eli Yishai he would. Litzman explained that Defense Minister Ehud Barak must sign such an order, [...]
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Haaretz.com (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Deputy Prime Minister Eli Yishai (Shas) said Wednesday that resuming negotiations with Damascus would be dangerous a move, just after Syria and Israel announced that they were ready to launch indirect talks for the first time in eight years. ...
