Elazar Stern

Elazar Stern is an MK for the Yesh Atid party in the Knesset and a former Major General in the IDF. He also served as head of the Israeli Manpower Directorate before retiring in 2008.

 PRAYING AT Robinson’s Arch at the south end of  the Kotel, the section set aside for pluralistic prayer.

The Western Wall should be a place of unity for all Jews - opinion

THE SWEARING-IN of new judges in the Rabbinical Courts, held at the President’s Residence in Jerusalem, in 2016.

Enlarging Rabbinical Judges Selection Committee boosts standing - opinion

MK Elazar Stern

Elazar Stern to 'Post': I am disappointed in the relgious-Zionist MKs


Ending ‘Pay to Slay’ payments for the sake of peace

"The Palestinian Authority is sending a very clear message that violence and bloodshed will pay and enrich, while peace and reconciliation will not."

Hail Stawi, killed in a terrorist attack on the Temple Mount, is buried in the village of Maghar, July 14, 2017.

Separating religion and state

We must separate Halacha from politics and return the power to the people.

Haredi political rally in Bnei Brak, March 11, 2015

The Kotel compromise

We’re willing to approach the same Jewish communities and ask them for help with one hand, while at the same time the other hand is conniving to hurt these same people.

Members of Women of the Wall at a prayer service at the Kotel in 2013

Comment: Jewish and democratic is possible

It’s not too late to remind ourselves what it means to live in a democratic Jewish state

‘THIS IS what distinguishes nationalism from extreme nationalism. The former protects us from external enemies, whereas the latter focuses on enemies from within our own ranks.’

Playing victim and arrogance- a dangerous cocktail

The silence of rabbis and central religious Zionist leaders in the face of the onslaught on the IDF and its commanders is deafening.

ULTRA-ORTHODOX MEN walk past soldiers at the Kotel in Jerusalem

It’s time for a new rabbinate

The Israeli Chief Rabbinate took Philadelphia cream cheese off the shelves, and now they’re trying to cancel Rabbi Lookstein and the Jews living around the world who were converted by him.

The rabbis of the Council of the Chief Rabbinate

Facing the reality of intermarriage and assimilation in Israel

A few recent conversations I had with close friends demonstrated to me that intermarriage is all too real in Israel.

A Jewish wedding.

A new model ‘People’s Army’

If we succeed, and in five years IDF conscripts begin to benefit from service shortened by four months, that could be just the beginning

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