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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

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

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

Coalition, opposition spar as preliminary vote on haredi daycare bill nears

By ELIAV BREUER

HAREDI YESHIVA students: These 135,000 boys, and then men, and then senior citizens, who will also not pay health tax, will place a heavy burden on the health care system in around 60 years’ time.

Opposition blasts state attempt to assist major haredi school system in financial trouble

By ELIAV BREUER

Yitzchak Goldknopf, Minister of Construction and Housing attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on June 26, 2024.

Knesset defense committee to resume haredi draft bill debate with classified meeting

By ELIAV BREUER

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

Is the NIS 70 m plan for haredi employment going to work without a draft law?

Rivlin meets with Haredi soldiers

Numbers aside, haredi conscription is about the fabric of Israeli society

By JPOST EDITORIAL

HAREDI STUDENTS attend a class at The Jerusalem College of Technology

Community engagement motivates ultra-Orthodox Jewish men to pursue higher education - study

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men protest against attempts to change government policy that grants ultra-Orthodox Jews exemptions from military conscription in Jerusalem February 26, 2024.

What do Israelis think of haredi IDF draft exemption?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Haredi volunteers have shown up in their own way to be part of the war efforts against the Hamas terror organization

Thousands of haredi volunteers rally to aid Israel amidst conflict with Hamas

Jews pray while activists protest against gender segregation in the public space during a public prayer on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, the Day of Atonement, and the holiest of Jewish holidays, September 25, 2023.

Israel must heed A-G on gender segregation, interior minister says

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

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

Israel Police forge new collaborations with ultra-Orthodox communities

By AARON PORIS/THE MEDIA LINE

Thousands of haredi students are studying core curriculum subjects online.

Gov't to transfer hundreds of millions in funds for haredi education

By ARIELLA MARSDEN

Israeli MKs of the United Torah Judaism party Meir Porush reacts as he sits in the plenum as the Knesset approves Yesh Atid's draft bill on first reading early Tuesday morning, in the Knesset, Israel's Parliament, in Jerusalem, early July 23, 2013

Tension in coalition mounts over last minute budget demands

By ELIAV BREUER

Illustrative image of an Electra-Afikim bus.

Bus line in Ashdod doesn't allow women, drivers say it's line for 'only men'

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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.

Israel needs to allow more building permits to haredi municipalities - comptroller