Ponevezh Yeshiva, often pronounced as Ponevitch Yeshiva, is a yeshiva founded in 1919 in Panevėžys (Ponevezh), Lithuania, and located today in Bnei Brak, Israel since 1944. The yeshiva has over three thousand students, including those of affiliated institutions, and is considered one of the leading Litvish yeshivas in Israel.
Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah is the supreme rabbinical policy-making council of the Agudat Yisrael and Degel HaTorah movements in Israel; and of Agudath Israel of America in the United States. Members are usually prestigious Roshei Yeshiva or Hasidic rebbes, who are also usually regarded by many Haredi Jews to be the Gedolim ("great/est") sages of Torah Judaism. Before the Holocaust, it was the supreme authority for the World Agudath Israel in Europe.
Hardal usually refers to the portion of the Religious Zionist Jewish community in Israel which inclines significantly toward Haredi ideology. In their approach to the State of Israel, though, they are very much Zionist, and believe that Israel is Atchalta De'Geula.
The Israeli Ceremonial Protocol does not define an order of precedence. It does define, however, the group of officials that are to attend ceremonial events. This group consists of:
- The President
- The Prime Minister
- The Alternate Prime Minister (vacant)
- The Speaker of the Knesset
- The President of the Supreme Court
- The Chief Rabbis
- Former Presidents
- Ministers of the Government
- The Leader of the Opposition, Chair of the Coalition
- Justices of the Supreme Court of Israel, President of the National Labor Court
- The Attorney General of Israel
- The State Comptroller
- The Governor of the Bank of Israel
- Chairman of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization
- Chairman of the Jewish Agency for Israel
- The Dean of the Diplomatic corps
- The Chief of Staff of the Israeli Defense Forces
- The Police Commissioner
- Members of the Knesset
- Commander of the Prison Service, Commissioner of the Israel Fire and Rescue Services, Director of the Shin Bet, Director of the Mossad, Head of the Atomic Energy Commission
- Former Prime Ministers, Speakers of Knesset, Chief Rabbis, Presidents of the Supreme Court and widows of former Presidents
- Heads of Diplomatic Missions
- Representatives of the minority religious communities in Israel – Christians, Muslims, Druze, and Circassians
- Military Secretary to the Prime Minister, Director-general of the Prime Minister's Office, Director-general of the Knesset
- Mayor of Jerusalem, Chairman of the Federation of Local Authorities, and Head of the hosting Local Government
- Cabinet Secretary, Knesset Secretary
- Members of the Executive of the World Zionist Organization, including the Chairman of Keren Hayesod
In Jewish law, a posek is a legal scholar who determines the application of halakha, the Jewish religious laws derived from the written and Oral Torah, in cases of Jewish law where previous authorities are inconclusive, or in those situations where no clear halakhic precedent exists.
The Jewish Cemetery on the Mount of Olives is the oldest and most important Jewish cemetery in Jerusalem. The Mount of Olives has been a traditional Hebrew/Jewish burial location since antiquity, and the main present-day cemetery portion is approximately five centuries old, having been first leased from the Jerusalem Islamic Waqf in the sixteenth century. The cemetery contains anywhere between 70,000 and 150,000 tombs, including the tombs of famous figures in early modern Jewish history. It is considered to be the largest and holiest historical Jewish cemetery on earth.
The 2020 Israeli legislative election was held using closed list proportional representation. Each party presented a list of candidates to the Central Elections Committee prior to the election. If a list contains more than 40 people, only the first 40 are shown.
The 2021 Israeli legislative election was held using closed list proportional representation. Each party presented a list of candidates to the Central Elections Committee prior to the election.
The 2009 Israeli legislative election was held using closed list proportional representation. Each party presented a list of candidates to the Central Elections Committee prior to the election.
Municipal elections were held in Israel on 28 October 2003.
Municipal elections took place in Israel on 25 October 1983.
Municipal elections took place in Israel on 31 December 1973, having been delayed from their original date on 30 October because of the Yom Kippur War. They were the last municipal elections to take place on the date of a legislative election, and the first in which the newly formed Likud participated.
The 2022 Israeli legislative election was held using closed list proportional representation. Each party presented a list of candidates to the Central Elections Committee prior to the election.
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