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The haredi-backed Basic Law passed its final Knesset votes after weeks of coalition tensions and warnings that it could ...

Afik said that the legislation, in its current form, could allow Torah students to receive the same academic aid benefits as ...

This law means by “Torah study” includes only haredi students at haredi yeshivas who are engaged almost exclusively with religious issues, and most of whom have very little, if any, general education ...

Knesset Legal Adviser Sagit Afik warns that a proposed law declaring Torah study a foundational value of Israel could result ...

The Knesset plenum on Wednesday approved in a preliminary reading Basic Law: Torah Study, which enshrines Torah study as a fundamental value. Fifty-six MKs voted in favor of the bill, while 43 opposed ...

That same Torah which gives us our claim to the land also commands us to study it day and night – and our tradition holds that this study is itself a form of national defense.