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."

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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'

According to Kahana, the Iranian missiles have a warhead of about half a ton of explosives, and "if you take 30,000 such missiles, it is equivalent to the atom bomb dropped on Hiroshima."

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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

Kahana's exit follows Gadi Eisenkot's Monday announcement that he would be leaving National Unity and resigning from the Knesset.

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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

How in the world can self-identifying Zionist Knesset members in the coalition participate in this injustice?

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Majority of religious-Zionists oppose gov't kashrut reforms - poll

The Knesset committee has begun its deliberations on government kashrut reforms.

OCTOBER 2, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
A Tzohar kashrut sticker in a window

Reforms must keep our food kosher - opinion

The issue of kashrut certification has been the center of heated debate for the last several months, with all sorts of accusations and claims of bullying and blackmail. 

SEPTEMBER 25, 2021ByBARRY NEWMAN
A WOMAN walks past a Jerusalem eatery with a Tzohar kashrut certificate.

West Bank outposts to receive NIS 20m. in support funds, Kahana tells Knesset

The thousands of Israelis who live in these communities feel like second-class citizens even though they work, pay taxes and serve in the IDF, said Kahana.

AUGUST 31, 2021ByTOVAH LAZAROFF, GIL HOFFMAN
The edge of the Mitzpe Dani outpost.

Matan Kahana's holy war against the religious establishment

A showdown over kashrut regulation signals a historic counterattack in the conflict between ultra-Orthodoxy and modern Orthodoxy.

AUGUST 18, 2021ByAMOTZ ASA-EL
Religious Affairs Minister Matan Kahana is a former IAF fighter pilot.

Conversion controversy: Can the Jewish people win a gold medal?

"Converts are as difficult to Israel as a sore." (Yevamot 47a)

AUGUST 12, 2021BySTEWART WEISS
ARTEM DOLGOPYAT, who won gold in men’s Gymnastics at Tokyo’s Olympics Games, poses with his girlfriend Maria Sakovich, as he is welcomed upon his arrival at Ben Gurion Airport near Tel Aviv

'Price of women in IDF combat units outweighs benefits' - Minister Kahana

Former fighter pilot and Sayeret Matkal fighter says he opposes integration of women into combat units.

AUGUST 2, 2021ByANNA AHRONHEIM
Female IDF soldiers of the Bardales Battalion

Municipal chief rabbis: Excommunicate rabbis who back religious reforms

A group of municipal chief rabbis have called for other municipal chief rabbis to be excommunicated should they establish kashrut authorities or their own conversion courts.

JULY 29, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
Kashrut certificate in Jerusalem, July 21, 2021.

'Non-Orthodox Jews are our brothers' - Matan Kahana

Religious services minister blasts hardline Orthodox groups for disturbing Western Wall prayer, harsh denunciations of kashrut reform.

JULY 26, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana (Yamina) is seen speaking at the transition ceremony where he replaces now former minister Yaakov Avitan, on June 14, 2021.

Kahana’s kashrut reforms get rabbinical backing

Senior religious-Zionist rabbis back end to Chief Rabbinate monopoly, after hardline rabbis opposed the measures.

JULY 25, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
KASHRUT CERTIFICATION at a Jerusalem eatery – will the rabbinate’s monopoly be broken?

Kahana says Western Wall deal won't be implemented in next two months

Orthodox group Rabbinical Council of America and Conference of Presidents criticize hardline Orthodox activists takeover of egalitarian prayer section at holy site on Tisha Be’av

JULY 21, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON, GIL HOFFMAN
Religious Services Minister Matan Kahana (Yamina) is seen speaking at the transition ceremony where he replaces now former minister Yaakov Avitan, on June 14, 2021.