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A top national religious rabbi joins the chorus of right-wing, religious voices against the High Court of Justice’s ruling legitimizing non-Orthodox conversions carried out in Israel. “No High Court decision can turn a goy into a Jew,” says Rabbi Druckman, saying that would be akin to a person seeking the court’s help after the doctoral degree he received from the bus drivers’ union was rejected. “There are matters that the High Court cannot settle.” While he lambasted the decision, Druckman acknowledged that the Knesset had avoided legislating on the matter for a decade and a h...

After a television report showed the vast majority of Israelis who are being given approval to enter the country during a general border closure were ultra-Orthodox, Defense Minister Benny Gantz says he will not approve the extension of regulations on international travel until a representative of the Ministry of Justice joins the committee that okays individuals to fly on a small number of available flights. Ganz demands “to disclose to the public in a transparent manner the criteria by which the committee operates.” In a press statement, he says that he intends to announce at the cabine...

15 shares Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing: Your 15-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East, and the Jewish world, from Sunday through Thursday. Today’s panel comprises Times of Israel diplomatic correspondent Lazar Berman and Palestinian affairs correspondent Aaron Boxerman, along with host Amanda Borschel-Dan. We start with a look at how Tehran appears to be jockeying for position ahead of talks on the nuclear deal by blackballing inspectors and threatening to increase enrichment. Berman tells us the risks that come with Iran’s posturi...

Abate Abbas et al. The Palestinian Authority is a fundamentally disordered political regime. Earlier this year PA President Mahmoud Abbas, age 85, entered the fifteenth seventeenth year of his four-year term. Abbas recently made news of a kind. He issued a decree calling for new parliamentary and presidential elections within the next several months. Barak Ravid has a brief Axios item with relevant background here (or here via Yahoo News). Aaron Boxerman’s Times of Israel story circles around a relevant point: “Abbas has promised elections several times since his four-year term was suppo...

Tune in Sunday through Thursday to hear ToI editors and reporters quickly catch you up on what’s important today