Haredim to boycott Knesset committee because chair is a Reform rabbi

MKs won’t sent representatives in protest at Gilad Kariv; Ultra-Orthodox MK compares Reform Jews to pigs; Chief sephardi rabbi: science and maths are nonsense

Ultra-Orthodox to boycott Knesset committee because its chair is a Reform rabbi (Times of Israel)
As Constitution, Law and Justice Committee formed, Haredi lawmakers say they won’t sent representatives, in protest of Gilad Kariv’s religious affiliation

Ultra-Orthodox MK compares Reform Jews to pigs (Jerusalem Post)
Haredi MKs denounce Labor MK, Reform rabbi Gilad Kariv amid his appointment to chair Knesset Constitution, Law, Justice Committee; UTJ MK Meir Porush compares Reform Jews to "pigs"

Chief Rabbi Yosef: Science, math are nonsense, study in yeshiva instead (Jerusalem Post)
The chief rabbi spoke proudly of not finishing school or having a high school diploma, and said learning Torah was far more important

Photo: Rabbi Gilad Kariv at a Labor party meeting in Tel Aviv on March 24 (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)