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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.

High Court suggests compromise extending haredi daycare for three months

By ELIAV BREUER

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

A haredi man and an IDF soldier pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 14, 2024

IDF issues a thousand draft notices for haredi recruits, 6,000 more planned

By YONAH JEREMY BOB

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.

How are ultra-Orthodox Jews protesting IDF service if they're too busy studying Torah? - opinion

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

Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs seen at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 18, 2024

Gov't secretary making illegal attempts to fund haredi draft exemption, AG charges

By ELIAV BREUER

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Haredi society needs to start pulling its weight as Israel's needs grow

By KALMAN LIEBSKIND

NOAM IMBER (left) and OMER NUDELMAN in 'Matchmaking 2.'

Love, laughter, and high-stakes Haredi dating in 'Matchmaking 2

By HANNAH BROWN

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

'Israel is set to launch an unprecedented attack on Hezbollah and Gaza,' Goldknopf reveals

By MAARIV

‘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.’

A-G, labor minister spat continues as daycare subsidies remain unpaid

By ELIAV BREUER

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Why did hundreds of Orthodox Jerusalem girls suddenly go barefoot?

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Mounted officers at the scene of the protest at the Haturim light rail station in Jerusalem. August 21, 2024.

Haredim protest near Jerusalem IDF recruitment office

Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon", in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024.

Smotrich orders haredi daycare subsidies to continue, defying attorney general

By ELIAV BREUER

MEN PRAY on the ground or on low chairs at the Western Wall in a sign of mourning on Tisha B’Av last year.

How Jewish liturgical responses evolved from Maimonides to today

By NATHANIEL HELFGOT

Haredi demonstrators hold signs while protesting against IDF enlistment, August 5, 2024.

'Murders, Hitlers, Nazis': Haredi rioters clash with police at IDF recruitment office

By Darcie Grunblatt