Reform

UK Reform party leader Nigel Farage defeats main opponent Count Binface to return to parliament

Farage, one of Britain's leading Brexit campaigners, in a highly unusual move, did not turn up at the vote count in the southern English seaside resort of Clacton.

Britain's Reform UK party leader Nigel Farage visits The Ship, on the day of voting in the Clacton by-election, triggered by his own resignation, in Kirby Le Soken, Essex, Britain, August 13, 2026.
Reform UK Party Leader Nigel Farage speaks during a press conference on a plan to deport foreign prisoners on August 10, 2026 at Royal Horseguards Hotel in London, England.

Reform UK rules out deal with Restore due to ‘antisemitic’ co-founder, ‘Groyper’ ideology

German Chancellor Friedrich Merz (2ndR), outgoing German Health Minister Nina Warken, outgoing parliamentary State Secretary in the Digital Ministry Philipp Amthor and outgoing Secretary General of Germany's Christian Democratic Union (CDU) Carsten Linnemann (R), July 23, 2026.

Germany's Merz picks first woman chief of staff in shake-up before state elections

Leading figures at the conference

Israel Securities Authority Chairman: “Regulation is stuck. The market and the public can't wait."


Israel's state budget: What are the main reforms?

The budget includes dozens of new initiatives and reforms in imports, kashrut, bureaucracy, transportation infrastructure, retirement age for women and banking, among others.

THE KNESSET building in Jerusalem holds one of the world’s smallest legislatures.

Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbis denounce government religious reforms

Rabbis Chaim Kanievsky and Gershon Edelstein published a notice on cuts to child care subsidies for full-time yeshiva students, proposals to abolish the Chief Rabbinate’s kashrut monopoly, and more.

Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, one of the most senior ultra-Orthodox rabbis in the country on Tisha Be'Av.

Kashrut supervisors cook shrimp in protest against planned reforms

Kashrut supervisors cooked shrimp and held fake kashrut certificates in protest in front of the home of the religious affairs minister.

KASHRUT CERTIFICATION at a Jerusalem eatery – will the rabbinate’s monopoly be broken?

Grapevine: 'A city knit together'?

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

 Rabbi Gilad Kariv at the Western Wall, Jerusalem, August 9, 2021.

Fundamental issues to Jewish nation to be tackled in Knesset winter session - analysis

In the new winter session of the Knesset, Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana will introduce legislation that will tackle the most sensitive issues to the Jewish nation.

 Minister of Religious Affairs Matan Kahana attends a plenary session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, July 26, 2021.

IDF disabled vets treatment reform: Hotline to operate 24/7

As part of the "One Soul" reform of services the Defense Ministry provides IDF veterans suffering from trauma, a support hotline will operate 24/7 at *8944.

 Israeli soldiers

Gantz approves new work compensation for disabled IDF veterans

The steps taken to assist the rehabilitation of disabled IDF veterans have been coming thick and fast since the "One Soul" reform was approved in May.

 Defense Minister Benny Gantz at Knesset meeting, September 5, 2021.

Public organizations protest regulation reform in letter to Knesset

The letter written to the Knesset joins ministers in protest against the reduction of regulation.

Cabinet meeting on August 2 where the budget was approved

Leader of Reform Jewry Richard Hirsch dies in Florida at 95

Hirsch was eulogized by President Isaac Herzog who said he was deeply saddened to learn of Hirsch’s passing.

Rabbi Richard G. Hirsch 311

Protesting Israeli farmers damage Lebanon border fence

Farmers demonstrating against planned agricultural reforms damaged the border fence with Lebanon.

 Farmers protest along border with Lebanon, August 17, 2021