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‘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.’

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox face arrest for draft evasion in IDF crackdown

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

‘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.’

338 haredim join IDF's special new tracks, compared to 10,000 summoned

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

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

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

HAREDIM PROTEST at the city’s Bar Ilan intersection, following the arrest of a haredi draft-dodger. The Peleg faction frequently spearheads such protests; Illustrative.

Police beat Haredi demonstrators with batons in Beit Shemesh

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

HAREDI STUDENTS learn in a yeshiva.

Major haredi systems to face organizational overhaul after financial trouble

By ELIAV BREUER

A Hasidic man walks by a police car in a Jewish Orthodox neighborhood in Brooklyn, April 24, 2017.

NJ man sentenced to 40 years in prison for 2022 spree of violent antisemitic attacks

By Jackie Hajdenberg/JTA

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

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

Prof. Yuval Shany, the Hersch Lauterpacht Chair of Public International Law at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

The US is mulling over sanctions against Ultra-Orthodox army unit, says expert

By Nathan Klabin/The Media Line

INCREASED INTEGRATION of Haredim into the workforce has resulted in a record-low poverty rate in the Haredi sector.

Solving the haredi employment problem in Israel

By YEHUDIT MILETZKY

Ultra-Orthodox men wearing masks walk around the neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, April 12, 2020

Ben-Gurion University Senate rejects proposal for gender separate ultra-Orthodox campus

By Peled Arbeli

View of the main street in the Ultra orthodox town of Bnei Brak, on August 17, 2023.

Survey of haredi society shows a community inching toward the norm

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Israeli soldiers and Ultra Orthodox Jews pray at a staging area near the Israeli-Gaza border, southern Israel, November 28, 2023.

Majority of Israeli haredim oppose draft despite the war

By Brooke Sarah Borden

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

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

The Central Bureau of Statistics reports an all-time high in employment among haredi men. These statistics should be cause for celebration, yet reactions remain polarized, says the writer. September 2023

Haredi integration should be encouraged, not questioned

By CHAIM SUKENIK