Matan Kahana

Matan Kahana: Ofer Winter firmly in Netanyahu bloc, Gantz and Troper should unite or quit race

Yashar! party official Matan Kahana told 103FM on Wednesday that Ofer Winter would strengthen Netanyahu's bloc, while condemning MK Zvi Sukkot's destruction of a West Bank memorial as "a disgrace."

MK Matan Kahana attends a National Unity faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025.
MK Matan Kahana attends a National Unity faction meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 26, 2025.

Former MK Kahana says Iranian missile threat is equivalent to nuclear threat, 'like Hiroshima'

 MK Matan Kahana attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on May 7, 2025.

After Eisenkot, Matan Kahana also announces exit from Gantz's party

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf seen in Jerusalem, September 27, 2023

A gov't of desecration: Goldknopf’s dance shows Israelis who is really to blame - opinion


Right-wing politicians clash over Temple Mount closure

Religious Zionist Party MKs Bezalel Smotrich and Itamar Ben-Gvir accused Bennett of surrendering to terror. Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana defended Bennett's decision. 

 Itamar Ben-Gvir at the Knesset, April 6, 2022.

Passover: Israeli politicians post holiday pictures

Prime Minister Naftali Bennett takes a hike; opposition leader Benjamin Netanyahu stays home.

 Prime Minister Naftali Bennett is seen on his Passover vacation.

Letters to the editor April 11, 2022: Their opinions are of little interest

Readers of The Jerusalem Post have their say.

Letters

Kahana attacked by senior Orthodox American rabbis

“We wrote the letter not as an attack but as a policy disagreement and a concern about the law as written," said OU vice president Rabbi Moshe Hauer.

Minister of Religious Affairs Matan Kahana arrives to a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 5, 2021.

Religious services minister visits Colleyville, other Jewish communities to garner support

I sincerely hope and want that every Jew, wherever they may be in Israel or around the world will strongly identify with their nation-state," said Religious Affairs minister Matan Kahana.

 Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana is seen at the Colleyville synagogue in Texas, on March 24, 2022.

Kahana to convince US Orthodox Jews that his reforms are positive

Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana will depart for the US Monday night and visit New York, Texas and Washington DC.

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS Minister Matan Kahana address the Knesset plenum last month.

Bill to reform Chief Rabbinate nixed in Knesset plenum

The bill aimed to introduce women and religious-Zionist representatives into the election committee and make the process more transparent.

Philadelphia-born Yesh Atid MK Moshe Tur-Paz is sworn in as a Knesset member. 5 Jan, 2020.

Controversial conversion reform advances in Knesset

The goal of the legislation is to make the conversion more accessible and welcoming.

RELIGIOUS AFFAIRS Minister Matan Kahana address the Knesset plenum last month.

Why the proposed civil-marriage deal is not good enough - opinion

'Letting Israelis marry in foreign embassies will be a social tragedy, a religious travesty and a civic disgrace.

 A WEDDING canopy is seen against the backdrop scenery of the Mediterranean Sea.

The kosher conundrum: Who should have oversight?

On the observance of our kashrut laws there should never be a compromise, but who has oversight is up for debate.

 Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef at the Western Wall.