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NEWS In a 6-3 vote, High Court judges accepted Tuesday evening a contentious petition against the Draft Deferral Law for yeshiva students, saying it would expire this August and would not be renewed.
HaRav Chaim Kanievsky shlita issued a ruling this week that "the use of a computer that is not blocked in accordance with the directives, and one who writes chidushei Torah on a computer that is not severed and blocked in this manner from the Internet is engaging in a `mitzvah habo'oh be'aveiroh,'" he said during a special gathering at his home to discuss the issue.
On erev Rosh Chodesh there were mass prayers all over the Jewish world during the Yom Kippur Kotton prayers with additional Tehillim to arouse Heavenly mercy for the health of the Rav of All Yisroel, Rabbeinu Yosef Sholom ben Chaya Musha Eliashiv shlita. The entire Beis Yisroel leans upon him and he is still in a difficult medical state.
The Tel Aviv-Jaffa City Council passed a proposal to operate public transportation on Shabbos Kodesh. The disgraceful decision must be approved by the Transportation Ministry, which later announced that it would not lend a hand in upsetting the status quo. Therefore the decision of the Tel Aviv City Council was essentially a populist, vote-getting gesture with no substance.
Rabbonim and public figures in and around Petach Tikva have voiced stiff opposition to a move by Shas to support the appointment to the city rabbinate of a rabbi from Zionist national-religious circles in exchange for their support of a Sephardic rabbi, striking a deathblow in terms of the ramifications for religious affairs in the city in the next elections.
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