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Haredi draft

 Protesters demonstrating against the High Court ruling calling for yeshiva students to draft to the IDF, June 30, 2024.

'Far from simple or clear-cut': What do Israelis think about the haredi draft bill?

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

On the haredi draft: Israelis are no longer tolerating the current situation

By AHARON E. WEXLER
 Head Rabbi of Ponevezh Yeshiva (Ponevitch) Rabbi Asher Deutsch.

Rabbi Asher Deutsch, leader of Peleg Yerushalmi, dies at 79

 Likud MK Yuli Edelstein attends a plenum session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, December 4, 2024

No backroom deals on IDF haredi draft bill, Likud MK Edelstein vows

 Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef sells the hametz (leavened food) of the State of Israel to Arab Israeli Mr Jaber before the upcoming Passover holiday in Jerusalem, April 21, 2024.

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef: Even haredi men who don't work cannot draft to IDF

 Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of United Torah Judaism, arrives for a cabinet meeting together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

MKs threatened bill to disperse Knesset over IDF exemption, haredi paper reveals

 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
 Haredi soldiers completing an F-16 aircraft technicians course, and will ensure the operational readiness of IAF fighter jets.

Haredi soldiers complete air force technicians course, ensuring IAF's operational readiness

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

On conscription and separation: the issues with the Haredi draft

By SHLOMO FISCHER
 Using donations to force change in Haredi draft row.

Editor's Notes: Diaspora donors to haredi yeshivas: You can demand change

 ‘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.’

Haredi military service: Change from the bottom up as grassroots support grows

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

Gaza war general takes reins of IDF HR Command as haredi, reservist crisis looms

 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

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

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

 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