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

Knesset debates bill to lengthen mandatory IDF service to 36 months

 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

 MKs debate haredi draft bill in Knesset, 18 June 2024

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

 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'

 ‘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

 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
 (L-R): IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant, seen near the IDF recruitment center in Jerusalem in an illustrative.

IDF, Yoav Gallant to issue ultra-Orthodox draft order in next month

IDF recruitment office sign

Poll of ultra-Orthodox shows how the IDF could implement the haredi draft

 Rabbis in the ultra-Orthodox sector embarked on a fundraising campaign in the US for the benefit of yeshivas following High Court ruling, June 23, 2024.

'There are those better than Zionists': Rabbis seek donations for yeshivas post-High Court ruling

By YAKI ADAMKER
 LIKUD MKs Tally Gotliv and Moshe Saada at the Knesset Constitution Committee on June 18 revealed cracks in the coalition.

Netanyahu's government is falling apart and coming to an end

Funeral wreathes were laid at the homes of MKs. June 10, 2024.

Ahead of the conscription law vote, funeral wreathes were laid at homes of coalition members

 Jerusalemites cast their ballots for the 2024 municipal elections, on February 27, 2024.

Israelis see election date, draft law as keys to calming social unrest

By Walla!
 HAREDI MEN clash with police during a protest  in Jerusalem, following the arrest of an IDF recruit who failed to comply with his draft orders, last month

Expiration of haredi draft deferments hurtles Israel into brave new world

 Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a Shas party meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.

Israeli gov't in crisis as Netanyahu, haredi parties fail to reach IDF draft deal

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Israeli rabbi: Torah students cannot serve in IDF, they are protecting soldiers

 Haredi men dressed in traditional ultra-Orthodox garb stand behind a group of religious IDF soldiers

Netanyahu rushes to get agreements on haredi draft as deadline looms

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Gov’t to vote on new Haredi conscription plan as coalition teeters