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DESPITE THE IDF’s calculation that it needs 7,000 new troops, Monday’s vote to revive an older haredi draft bill was approved by the majority of the Knesset members.

High Court suggests compromise extending haredi daycare for three months

By ELIAV BREUER

Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Israeli military draft orders, in Bnei Brak, November 17, 2024

1,000 haredi IDF draft orders sent out, 6,000 more over 2 months

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

The cover of a Haredi newspaper against the draft of Haredim into the IDF.

Haredi leaders urge draft defiance on front page of 'Yated Ne'eman' newspaper

By YAKI ADAMKER

Israel's Defense Minister Israel Katz

Israel Katz confirms issuing of 7,000 IDF draft notices to haredi recruits

MK Dan IIlouz

Dan IIlouz talks haredi draft, UNRWA, and the war in Gaza

By ELIAV BREUER

A haredi man and an IDF soldier pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 14, 2024

IDF issues a thousand draft notices for haredi recruits, 6,000 more planned

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

AN IDF soldier leans on the Western Wall in Jerusalem. It is a mitzvah to form a Jewish military guard for the security of those returning to Zion, writes Rabbi Tzvi Kalischer.

Drafting to the IDF is the Jewish thing to do

By YISRAEL MEDAD

Incoming defense minister Israel Katz attends a discussion and vote on the inclusion of MK Gideon Saar as a Minister in the government at the plenum hall of the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on September 30, 2024.

Defense Minister Israel Katz not blocking IDF issuing 7,000 draft orders to haredim

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, Minister and MK's attend a plenary session of the opening day of the winter session at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on october 28, 2024.

Netanyahu: Iran and the conscription law are twin threats that must be resolved

Protesters calling for a haredi draft at an event by Religious-Zionist women organization Shutafot Lasherut

'The blood of our combat soldiers is crying out': Religious-Zionist women support haredi draft

IDF soldiers from the 146th Reserves Division begin operations in southern Lebanon.

80% of reservists say haredi draft exemption would hurt national motivation

download high resolution download low resolution add to lightbox file name: F240710CG42 caption (en): Israeli minister of Defense Yoav Gallant attends an assembly session in the plenum hall at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem on July 10, 2024.

Gallant is the man for the job! Netanyahu, we deserve better

By JPOST EDITORIAL

IDF SOLDIERS pray during a break in a haredi unit’s training exercise. If haredi parents and rabbinic leaders could be assured that their sons would complete their service as they entered – as observant, ultra-Orthodox Jews – there would be more grassroots support, the writer maintains.

Be careful what you wish for: The haredi draft is a societal challenge the IDF can solve

By AVI ABELOW

Haredi student from Ono Academic College serving in the IDF.

Gallant approves 7,000 draft orders for haredim to join IDF

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a state ceremony at Mount Herzl military cemetery in Jerusalem on October 27, 2024

PMO security scandal heats up with arrest of new suspect

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , BINI ASHKENAZI , YAKI ADAMKER

Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs seen at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 18, 2024

Gov't secretary making illegal attempts to fund haredi draft exemption, AG charges

By ELIAV BREUER

‘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.’

Solving the issue of the ultra-Orthodox enlistment is a national imperative

By Romy Leibler/The Media Line

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Haredi society needs to start pulling its weight as Israel's needs grow

By KALMAN LIEBSKIND