Alex Stein

One day after the Knesset Finance Committee approved budget transfers totaling roughly a quarter-billion shekels for Haredi educational institutions, Israel’s High Court ordered most of the approved funds frozen, citing alleged procedural flaws.

After a marathon ten-hour hearing, justices took under advisement a petition to remove National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir. The attorney general’s office floated a compromise: immediate judicial oversight of limits on the minister’s role, plus a two-week window to nail down formal ground rules.