Moshe Gafni

Gafni’s ouster marks a changing era for Israel’s haredi parties - and for Netanyahu - analysis

By pushing Gafni out of the next Knesset, the party's rabbinic leadership has served notice that Netanyahu will have to win the haredim back rather than simply count them in.

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen with United Torah Judaism (UTJ) MK Moshe Gafni during a 40-signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 10, 2025
Finance Committee chair MK Hanoch Milwidsky leads a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, August 4, 2026.

Knesset panel approves budget transfer of NIS 270 million to haredi education during recess

MK Moshe Gafni attends a Finance committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, June 29, 2026.

Haredi MK Gafni urges Netanyahu to advance Torah study bill unchanged despite legal warnings

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty study Torah outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem during a silent protest against the imprisonment of yeshiva students who failed to comply with military recruitment orders, July 1, 2026; Illustrative.

Knesset passes in first reading bill to enshrine Torah study into Basic Law


Gafni says will raise Draft bill if talk of budget bill arises

MK Moshe Gafni also celebrated his party's success at preventing the amendment of a basic law that is intended to ensure equality and prohibit discrimination.

Moshe Gafni

Companies can now file reports to the Israeli Stock Exchange in English

Chairman of the Israel Securities Authority, Anat Guetta, called the decision "a simple revision that generates a significant change."

The TMTI Summit at the Tel Aviv Stock Exchange

Former MK: A historic week for the haredi world... and Israel

UTJ Mk Moshe Gafni's support for haredi schools with more secular studies than required is nothing short of a revolution.

NOW THAT many rabbis have given their support, those who want general studies can proudly pursue their dreams.

The toxic ramifications of haredi education on Israeli society

The lack of a core curriculum in the haredi sector for boys is one of the biggest restraints on the integration of men from the community into the workforce, and on their earning capacity.

Schoolchildren stand in the doorway and watch as ultra-Orthodox Jews prepare matza in Bnei Brak near Tel Aviv March 30, 2015.

Gafni: Rabbis approve some secular subjects being taught in haredi schools

The overwhelming majority of ultra-Orthodox high-school aged pupils do not study core curriculum subjects such as math, English and science.

A HAREDI child reads from the Bible during a reading class at the Kehilot Ya’acov Torah School for boys in Jerusalem in 2010

Netanyahu's turn is counting down without any progress - Analysis

Netanyahu hasn’t given up yet and is keeping his mandate with over a week until the October 24 deadline.

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu gestures as he speaks during a memorial ceremony for Israeli soldiers killed in the 1973 Middle East War at Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem October 10, 2019

Ultra-Orthodox MK Gafni: 'these elections are war'

Grand Rabbi of Viznitz: destroyers of religion want to bring about a Holocaust like Hitler

Moshe Gafni

Gafni: Uncomfortable with PM's legal woes, will recommend him again anyway

UTJ MK hints a Likud-Israel Resilience Party government could have formed if Lapid had not been a partner with Benny Gantz.

Moshe Gafni

Liberman likens haredim to Hamas in campaign focused on religion and state

"I hope Yisrael Beytenu doesn’t pass the electoral threshold; Liberman is an ingrate," said Moshe Gafni

Former Defense Minister Avigdor Liberman launches Yisrael Beitenu on January 20, 2019

Haredi MK Gafni nearly lynched on Yom Kippur eve for support of draft bill

Demonstrators in Haredi garb called Gafni a murderer and tried to break the windows of his car.

The car in which MK Moshe Gafni was injured, September 17, 2018