Overview
- Justice Yael Wilner issued an interim order halting transfers approved by the Knesset Finance Committee to chareidi educational frameworks lacking state supervision.
- United Torah Judaism’s Moshe Gafni and other chareidi leaders condemned the ruling in fierce terms, and Shas urged Jews worldwide to protest.
- Justice Minister Yariv Levin called the freeze deliberate harm and urged coalition partners to advance stalled judicial reform bills.
- Yesh Atid said it will ask the court to expand the remedy to include clawing back funds reportedly transferred before the injunction took effect.
- Aryeh Deri criticized coalition partners for muted reactions and, according to associates, pressed Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, who pledged to convene ministers to respond.