Israel

Bariatric surgery has become popular among overweight people • Hgr"n Karelitz: "It is prohibited for a man to injure himself, unless his life is under danger. But for losing weight?"

Tragedy: A 7 month old suffocated to death whilst playing with a plastic bag in his home in the Givat Shaul neighborhood in Jerusalem. Initial examination: The caregiver didn’t notice because she thought he had fallen asleep

Survey TNS-Teleseker for Walla! Shows: the strengthening of the center - left parties, alongside stability of the Likud - Beitenu with 38 seats and the weakening of Avodah and Meretz • Movement of Tzipi Livni and Yesh Atid of Yair Lapid

The Supreme Court ruling to return 'Heligman' to secular heirs, generates a storm • Hagr"y Edelstein: "My prayer is that this place will continue to flourish" • Inside: the letters

Hgr"z Dravkin gave a sharp "va'ad" to yeshiva students at Shidduchim age - and attacked the requirement of boys to get an apartment: "The decree of enlistment is because of the decree of dowry. If boys will go to jail, maybe it will stop"

Illite Company bus travelled on Route 1 erratically • A policeman stopped the bus and was amazed to discover about 100 passengers • The driver was detained and passengers were transferred to alternative transportation

Shas' campaign posters with Netanyahu and Lieberman figures will be removed from buses in the capital • The reason: obligation of Egged'- received under religious pressure - not to publish images of people on buses

At the initiative of the President of the Yeshiva, Hagr"a Kahaneman, avreichim will eat lunch at the yeshiva and will immediately learn Seder Beis • What did Hagry"g Edelstein relate of what was customary in Lomza in his youth?

A car hit a mother pushing a stroller with her one and a half year old son whilst crossing a crosswalk on Rabbi Akiva Street in Bnei Brak • The baby was thrown from the stroller, contained head trauma

Security Officer of Ma'ale Michmash settlement delayed a Palestinian who yielded to steal a iron tractor from a fire area • Another Palestinian suddenly appeared with a tractor trying to run him over

Elections returns the army draft to the agenda: Lapid appealed against the government's decision to allow 1300 orthodox to perform national service • The Movement re-establishes the 'suckers tent'

'Atra Kadisha' complicated • Only a few days ago the organization issued a letter of support by Hagr"ch Kanievsky and Hgr"n Karelitz • Now they deny it and announce: We did not sign a support letter for the organization

Rebbe of Sanz welcomed to his home a delegation of senior educators and instructed them in matters of education • Rebbe explains in part why the parent is allowed to hit his son lightly • full dialogue – Inside

"The elections are the image of the country - if we continue to see those who serve and those who do not, those who pay taxes and those who don't" • Peretz also incites: "Believe Livni – there will be an equality law"

Yeshiva students - residents of a house in Beit Yisrael, Jerusalem - lit Chanukah candles near a gas canister which exploded • The home caught fire and part of it collapsed

In the shade of the growing debate on recruiting haredim, the Shahar framework continues to grow • Fifty more soldiers completed their basic training and noted it at the Western Wall • A Hareidi doctor joined the unit

The Israeli government approved a civil service for Haredim and the Left was quick to attack • "A bypass to the Supreme Court," says Tzipi Livni • "I will not join such a government," Lapid threatens

following an investigation uncovering serious animal abuse in slaughterhouses of 'Tnuva Beef', an ultra-Orthodox woman filed a lawsuit against Tnuva and its subsidiary 'Red Red' by one hundred million shekels

The expensive menorah, lit alternatively by the 'Yeshuot Moshe' and his brother from Monsey – was transferred to the Vizhnitzer Rebbe to light • what happened to the chair of the "Ahavat Yisrael"?

A one and a half year old toddler from Bnei Brak was burned on his hand and upper body from a hot cup of tea • after treatment with Brandshield bandages – he was taken to Schneider hospital in Petah Tikva

Third article in series: If at the beginning of last week it emerged that Aryeh Deri is about to be the Shas Chairman, the events of Tuesday and Wednesday in the movement arrived

A neighbor of family Amsalem, whose son Yitzchak hy"d was killed in Operation Pillar of Cloud, lit a second candle of Hanukkah in their living room • "There are no words to explain. It was an exciting and chilling alike "

Angry residents of Haifa: At the Central Avenue huge fir trees were placed to mark the Christian holiday – Chanuka Menorah's are gone • As a result religious party representatives initiated placing a huge Menorah

Until the last moment Degel and Agudah were thinking of running separately • who represents the Haredi workers integrated into the joint list by Hagray"l Steinman? • Video and photos from the lists filing

Haredi businessmen Leo Noe and Shalom Fisher were interrogated under caution several times by the SEC • Suspected of using inside information during the purchase of shares in 'Supersal' and' Isralom '

Rainwater flooded the yard of the Talmud Torah, Yachel Yisrael, and caught hundreds of school children who were unable to return home • After a rescue operation – the children scattered safely to their homes

Rescuers were called to the home of an elderly man and gave him primary health care • Just before the man was taken to the hospital, he asked volunteers: "Let me first light the candles" • See video

The new model, designed to maintain relations with the Orthodox faith, will allow the absorption of some 1,300 yeshiva students, who are committed to one of two routes: 40 hours per week or 20 hours for two years

Affordable desertion • Amir Peretz's transfer from 'Avodah' to 'Hatnua' of Tzipi Livni brings the power surge • Livni rises to a double digit number at the expense of Lapid

In a conversation with B'Chadrei Charedim, the economic commentator of Haaretz – repeats and insists: "There is no Orthodox physician in Israel" • but restricts: "I only meant those who studied at Haredi institutions in Israel"