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Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir visited the Nevatim Air Force base, March 11, 2025

Classified IDF roles prompt probing of Air Force recruits' protest ties

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Reservists and participants in pre-IDF service preparatory "mechinot" gathered near the Knesset Sunday to call for an IDF draft for all, March, 2025.

Pre-IDF service participants and reservists demand fair draft for all

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

POLICE CONFRONT haredi demonstrators blocking a road in Jerusalem, protesting against efforts to draft haredim into the military, earlier this month.

Sanctions against haredi draft dodgers must be enforced, attorney general warns

By ELIAV BREUER

Letters

Letters to the Editor, February 24, 2025: Obscene comparison

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

‘THE HAREDI leadership argues that it is forbidden to draft yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession and that they defend the State of Israel through their studies.’

NGO calls on High Court to cut funding for alternative yeshivas, citing IDF draft evasion

IDF CHIEF OF STAFF Halevi salutes after placing a wreath during a ceremony marking a year since October 7, 2023, at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem. After over 14 months of intense fighting, the army’s burden has hardly decreased, says the writer

IDF needs to act on recruiting haredim

By SHUKI FRIEDMAN

A CONFRONTATION takes place between haredim and police at a protest against drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the military, outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer.

Israel Police's violence knows no bounds

By TAMAR URIEL-BEERI

IDF SOLDIERS take part in an army stretcher drill. Israel’s population also needs to carry its share of the burden.

My Word: Wide awake in a war

By LIAT COLLINS

HAREDI MEN learn at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim, Sept. 13, 2023.

Failure to draft ultra-Orthodox cost economy NIS 8.5 billion

FAMILIES AND SUPPORTERS of Israeli soldiers kidnapped by Hamas from the Nahal Oz surveillance outpost on October 7 demand the release of all hostages held in Gaza, outside the home of Shas head MK Aryeh Deri in Jerusalem, earlier this week.

Younger sisters of two observers murdered on Oct. 7 enlist to the IDF on the same day

By HANNAH BROWN

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef during a shaharit prayer in the northern Israeli city of Tzfat, September 17, 2024.

'Throw them in the toilet': Yitzhak Yosef urges students to 'tear up' draft orders

By YAKI ADAMKER

IDF soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, August 4, 2024

Knesset debates bill to lengthen mandatory IDF service to 36 months

By ELIAV BREUER

An IDF soldier is seen wearing a Jewish tzitzit while carrying a weapon in Jerusalem, May 13, 2024

Israel on its way to temporarily extending mandatory IDF service

By YAKI ADAMKER

The July 18 issue of the Shas newspaper Haderech.

Shas spiritual leaders encourage haredim to refuse draft orders

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

MKs debate haredi draft bill in Knesset, 18 June 2024

IDF unsure how many haredi draft orders it intends to send on Sunday

By ELIAV BREUER

Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road during a protest outside the city of Bnei Brak, March 3, 2024

Ultra-Orthodox extremists hurl bottles at IDF senior commanders in Bnei Brak, call them 'murderers'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

‘THE HAREDI leadership argues that it is forbidden to draft yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession and that they defend the State of Israel through their studies.’

Israel's cabinet extends mandatory IDF service amid haredi draft controversy, sparking criticism

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

HAREDI JEWS walk in the streets of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem, earlier this month.

Haredi leaders considering forbidding yeshiva students from cooperating with IDF

By YAKI ADAMKER