Eli Yishai will leave the Shas party he once headed and has registered to run in the March elections with a new party. The new party is called Maran, the title used to refer to Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, the ...

Yahad party leader and former minister Eli Yishai will withdraw his candidacy and support the Lithuanian haredi United Torah Judaism party (UTJ) in the upcoming elections. The announcement follows two ...

MK Eli Yishai, formerly the chairman of Shas and now the head of the Ha’am Itanu party, clarified on Tuesday that he was not behind the leaking of recordings showing former Shas spiritual leader Rabbi ...

JERUSALEM (JTA) — A former head of the Shas Sephardic Orthodox party slammed the Israeli Cabinet’s approval to expand the egalitarian section of the Western Wall, joining several politicians who have ...