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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Construction and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf seen in Jerusalem, September 27, 2023

A gov't of desecration: Goldknopf’s dance shows Israelis who is really to blame

By MATAN KAHANA

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

MK MOSHE GAFNI, chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, leads a committee meeting last week. ‘Why would a country willingly fund institutions that seek its downfall? The sad answer is politics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs the haredim in his coalition,’ says the writer.

The IDF needs soldiers but Israel is paying yeshivas to dodge the draft

ODELIA FROSH (right) and Linda Cohen-Rofeh attend an event of the Lapidot program, which is designed for senior haredi female managers, helping them strengthen their leadership skills and expand their influence while remaining true to their religious and communal values, say the writers.

Shattering glass ceilings: The quiet revolution of haredi women

By Linda Cohen-Rofeh , Odelia Frosh

A SCENE from ‘No Child Spared.’

Disturbing doc highlight systemic abuse in ultra-Orthodox education

By HANNAH BROWN

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray at the tomb of Rav Ashi,on the Israeli border with Lebanon, March 7, 2025

Israeli troops escort hundreds of hassidic pilgrims to rabbi's tomb inside Lebanon

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

LIA VAN LEER

Lia Fest: Jerusalem Cinematheque honors founder with women's film festival

By HANNAH BROWN

THEN-IDF deputy chief of staff Maj.-Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at a ceremony in 2019. The primary mission of the incoming chief of staff is security-related, but it’s not his only mission, the writer argues.

The incoming chief of staff has many challenges he'll need to confront

By AMICHAI COHEN

A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) man reads a newspaper.

This is the way ultra-Orthodox men can be recruited into the IDF

By Rivka Weill

Israel Police arresting haredi protestors in central Jerusalem, February, 25, 2025.

Investigate attempts by haredim to bypass IDF draft-dodger sanctions, NGO demands

By ELIAV BREUER

A HAREDI protest against enlisting in the military takes place outside the IDF recruitment office in Tel Hashomer last week.

Jerusalem Court criticizes prosecutors for targeting haredi protesters

By BINI ASHKENAZI

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Rivlin blasts Haredi draft refusal at the Conference of Presidents

By GREER FAY CASHMAN

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

New program helps address mental health stigma in Israel’s haredi community

By STUART KATZ , ZVIKA ORR

Rabbi Dov Lando seen during a meeting to discuss the drafting of ultra-Orthodox jews to the IDF in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, April 5, 2024.

Senior haredi rabbi instructs his constituents to withdraw from Zionist institutions

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF

The Beit Yisrael Avot U’Banim (House of Israel Parents and Children) synagogue beit midrash in Haifa.

Holiness in Haifa: The little shul that shines a spotlight on Orthodoxy

By LIANE GRUNBERG WAKABAYASHI

Infographic of results from an exclusive Jerusalem Post poll, February 11, 2025

Religious Israelis more likely to reject Palestinian sovereignty, 'Post' poll finds

Rabbi Dov Landau seen at his home in Bnei Brak, on February 27, 2024.

Top haredi leader calls for Arab rule over Israel, says Zionism brought 'disasters'

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.’

For first time, haredi man arrested at airport trying to flee IDF conscription

By JERUSALEM POST STAFF