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An illustrative image of an ultra-Orthodox Jew reading the news.

Rabbi, what do you surf? How ultra-Orthodox Jews use the news, Internet

Recruiting ultra-Orthodox members of the Jewish Community in Tel Hashomer

Journalist says the IDF needs haredim to safeguard West Bank settlements

Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of United Torah Judaism, arrives for a cabinet meeting together with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

Will Israel's government collapse due to the IDF haredi draft crisis?

By ELIAV BREUER

Israel Police officers.

Two Israel Police officers see conviction of assaulting civilian overturned

By SHLOMI HELLER

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

Why Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jews will never serve in the IDF

By Yankale Friedman

Israelis protest against the Israeli government's planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv, March 4, 2023.

Netanyahu: Elections will set Israel back to before Gaza war

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked traffic and the light rail in Jerusalem demonstrating against a Haredi draft into the IDF. February 26, 2024.

Israel's High Court endorses IDF haredi draft, calls to freeze yeshiva funding

By YONAH JEREMY BOB , ELIAV BREUER

Shas leader MK Aryeh Deri and Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen during a Shas party meeting, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on January 23, 2023.

Israeli gov't in crisis as Netanyahu, haredi parties fail to reach IDF draft deal

By ELIAV BREUER , YONAH JEREMY BOB

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu walking outside his office at the Knesset, Israel's parliament in Jerusalem on March 13, 2024.

Netanyahu warns Likud: Without IDF draft bill, Israeli gov't will fall

Haredim at a recruiting office

Mandatory Sherut Leumi for haredim will make things worse

By David Milgrom

Vigilance is required on the part of consumers that they consume "blue and white" fruits and vegetables

This is the main reason why you should buy blue and white products

By In collaboration with the Galil company

Ultra orthodox students seen at the Ponovitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024.

Israel's isolation of ultra-Orthodox Jews is becoming untenable

By ELIAV BREUER

A JEWISH PEOPLE Policy Institute survey conducted six weeks into the war reveals that a significant majority of haredim believe that nothing needs to changes.

Educating the ultra-Orthodox: Release the shackles

By Romy Leibler/The Media Line

STUDENTS AT the Jerusalem College of Technology enhance their academic experience by volunteering in the college’s Lev Bakehila community engagement program.

Agents of social change: Haredi student volunteers

By ZVIKA ORR

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

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.

Transportation Min. to pay hundreds of thousands to provide buses to ultra-Orthodox wedding

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

ORTHODOX SOLDIERS participate in an IDF swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem.

Social Equality Ministry to help ex-Haredim draft to IDF

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

Ultra-Orthodox Jews block a road during a protest outside the city of Bnei Brak, March 3, 2024

Ultra-Orthodox Jews block Israeli highway in protest of IDF draft

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF