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Haredi draft

 ULTRA-ORTHODOX men protest against the haredi draft, in Jerusalem last week.

Religious Zionist rabbi: Campaign promoting haredi draft aims to oust Netanyahu gov't

 EPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was busy insulting more than half of Israel, declaring that when a person eats non-kosher food ‘his brain becomes stupid,’ the writer notes

But where would you go? - opinion

By HAYIM LEITER
 HAREDI STUDENTS learn in a yeshiva.

Draft haredim to serve during their breaks from yeshiva

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Post-October 7: What does a haredi IDF draft look like?

 IDF 98th Division commander Dan Goldfus

The Goldfus bombshell: Why did the IDF general take shots at Israeli politicians?

 The leadership of Shas. History has summoned them to their beautiful hour, but instead they turn it into our bad hour.

Amid the haredi draft debate, Shas is dragging Israel into its past traumas

By NIR KIPNISS
HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Is secularism too seductive? Haredi youth should be allowed to serve in the IDF - opinion

 Ultra orthodox students seen at the Ponovitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024.

Israel's isolation of ultra-Orthodox Jews is becoming untenable

 EPHARDI CHIEF Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef was busy insulting more than half of Israel, declaring that when a person eats non-kosher food ‘his brain becomes stupid,’ the writer notes

Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yosef's words are an insult to IDF soldiers risking their lives

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish family takes part in the Tashlikh ritual, to symbolically cast away sins, ahead of Yom Kippur, the Jewish Day of Atonement, in Ashdod, Israel, October 3, 2022.

Transportation Min. to pay hundreds of thousands to provide buses to ultra-Orthodox wedding

 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during a ceremony of the Israeli police for the Jewish new year at the National Headquarters of the Israel Police in Jerusalem on September 22, 2022.

The Chief Rabbi's comments: Tone deaf and damaging - comment

Moshe Tur-Paz

25 years of peace education essential to shift Palestinian attitudes on Israel, says MK Tur-Paz

By FELICE FRIEDSON/THE MEDIA LINE
 Israel's Sephardi Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef speaks during the funeral procession of Rabbi Elimelech Wasserman, a senior judge in the Rabbinical Court, in Jerusalem. Rabbi Wasserman was killed in a terror attack earlier today. November 30, 2023.

Israeli government officials slam chief rabbi's threat of haredi exodus

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

Outlook on haredi draft needs to change for it to work

SEPHARDI CHIEF RABBI Yitzhak Yosef speaks at a Shas Party election rally at the Yazdim Synagogue in Jerusalem last year.

Mass exodus threatened by chief rabbi if haredim are forced into military service

By YAKI ADAMKER