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L to R: Incoming IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Effie Defrin, Outgoing IDF Spokesperson Brig.-Gen. Daniel Hagari, at ceremony to mark the change of position, March 27, 2025.

Politicians cannot attack IDF, haredim must join military, Hagari says

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

United Torah Judaism (UTJ) chairman rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf is seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022

Chikli loses faith in Goldknopf over discriminatory land allocations to haredim

By ELIAV BREUER

The car of Beit Shemesh Mayor Shmuel Greenberg after it was flipped by extremists

Beit Shemesh mayor attacked, car vandalized and flipped by haredi extremists

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

Sanctions against haredi draft dodgers must be enforced, attorney general warns

By ELIAV BREUER

Using donations to force change in Haredi draft row.

Taking from Israel and refusing to serve: Why haredim draft refusal is hard to swallow

By JPOST EDITORIAL

DEFENSE MINISTER Israel Katz appears before the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee last month.

Israel Katz says 'unilateral' IDF draft letters to haredim have failed

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

THE ISSUE of haredi conscription into the IDF has once again been brought into the spotlight this week, even as the Knesset continues its inability to legislate the matter. If elections come soon, the haredi parties could be in danger of losing their place in government, and their reality may change

Dancing on the brink: Haredi draft dodging video triggers national backlash

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man is seen exiting an IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem, June 25, 2024

Less than 2% of haredim summoned since July have begun IDF service

By ELIAV BREUER

Letters

Letters to the Editor February 5, 2025: Impulsively decisive

By LETTERS TO THE EDITOR

‘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

Shas chairman Arye Deri.

Shas chief Deri calls on Netanyahu to continue with 2nd phase of hostage deal

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

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

Haredi organizations press on efforts to prevent IDF recruitment

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Footage showing Maj.-Gen. David Zini being escorted by Israel police. January 9, 2025.

Haredim verbally assault IDF Maj.-Gen. in Bnei Brak restaurant

By YAKI ADAMKER , 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

MKs Gadi Eisenkot (L) and Benny Gantz (R) seen in the Knesset plenum, in Jerusalem, December 4, 2024

Gantz, Lapid push back against haredi draft exemption bill in the Knesset

By ELIAV BREUER

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

By ELIAV BREUER

View of the Atlas Mountains in Morocco, on May 2, 2018.

Five Israelis from Safed killed in fatal car accident in Morocco

By JOANIE MARGULIES , Mathilda Heller

A CONFRONTATION takes place between haredim and police at a protest against drafting the ultra-Orthodox into the military, outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer.

Netanyahu, IDF at odds over how many haredim it can absorb

By YONAH JEREMY BOB