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...
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Israelated - English Israel blogs (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
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. ...
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, [...]
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. ...
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 05/16/2008
Shas leader Minister Eli Yishai on Thursday night took part in a panel discussion in the Jerusalem Facing Tomorrow Presidents Conference along with Foreign Minister Tzipi Livni, Defense Minister Ehud Barak and opposition leader MK Binyamin Netanyahu. Yishai decided to address “tomorrow” by mentioning the alarming rate of assimilation around the world. Yishai spoke of the Jewish [...]
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 05/15/2008
Shas leader Minister Eli Yishai and Minister of Public Security (Kadima) Avi Dichter on Wednesday evening traveled to Ashkelon for a firsthand look at the Chutzot Mall after a Grad rocket slammed into the building at about 6PM. Yishai called for “moving from talk to action,” stating Israel can no longer permit the current situation to [...]
Yeshiva World News (Free subscription) | 05/13/2008
Following a commitment from Minister Eli Yishai to delay the implementation of the Wisconsin plan until at least the end of 2008, workers in the nation's employment service offices have agreed to return to their desks first thing Tuesday morning following a prolonged strike. Workers fear that under the proposed plan, many employees will lose their [...]
