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HAREDI MEN work the fields

Unity in Action: How Israel’s haredi community has joined to help the home front

By ALAN ROSENBAUM

POSTERS BEARING the photos of Israelis being held hostage by Hamas in Gaza are seen on a street in Port Washington, NY

Extremist haredi men defaced posters of abducted Israel women

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri at a party meeting, in the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 30, 2023.

Arye Deri’s ultra-Orthodox son joins IDF reserve forces

By YAKI ADAMKER/WALLA!

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

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men who decided to join in the IDF following the ongoing war between Israel and Hamas arrive at the IDF recruiting offices in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, October 23, 2023

Ultra-Orthodox Jews are supporting Israel’s war efforts - here's how

By MAARIV

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen meeting with IDF soldiers on October 16, 2023

Did Hamas inadvertently heal the haredi-secular divide? - opinion

By SHUKI FRIEDMAN

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.

As civilians, banks, and companies pool aid for IDF, the gov't has worried about funding yeshivas

By ZACHY HENNESSEY

Stress, illustrative

Gov't reallocates funds from mental health org. to haredi groups

By JUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH

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

VANDALISM: TENSIONS ramping up (Illustrative).

This week in Jerusalem: Election fever

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

Haredim are seen marching on an Israeli highway in protest against being drafted into the IDF, on September 13, 2023.

Majority of Israelis reject haredi IDF exemption bill - INSS survey

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

UNITED OPPOSITION: (L TO R) Laura Wharton, Yossi Havilio, Yaala Bitton-De Langa, Eran Ben Yehuda.

Jerusalem's secular-traditionalists unite for anti-haredi electoral list

JEWS PRAY at the Western Wall. The creation of the State of Israel is one of the great religious redemptive events of Jewish history, states the writer.

Turn the Jewish religion into a positive force: treat haredim as equal, not dominant - opinion

By YITZ GREENBERG

‘LAST WEEK, the city that had effectively erased its women elected a woman to be mayor’: Aliza Bloch.

Israel Police rescue Beit Shemesh mayor from violent haredi protest

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF , TROY O. FRITZHAND

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu stands in front of a portrait of first prime minister David Ben-Gurion.

Netanyahu is still in control of the government, judicial reform - analysis

By TROY O. FRITZHAND

Haredim protest in Jerusalem against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox youth into the army.

Knesset's summer recess overshadowed by Conscription Law debate - analysis

By TROY O. FRITZHAND

ELIEZER RAUCHBERGER

What does Jerusalem's top haredi lawmaker think of the city's struggles?