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

Social Equality Ministry to help ex-Haredim draft to IDF

 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

 PROTESTERS AT a demonstration in Jerusalem on Monday call for the enlistment of haredim into the military. The placards carry such slogans as ‘Equal service for all.’

Israel's population cannot be the ultra-Orthodox's flak jackets regarding IDF service

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant attend an event for outstanding soldiers as part of Israel's 75th Independence Day celebrations, at the President's residence in Jerusalem on April 26, 2023

Ultra-Orthodox Jews must be drafted by IDF, Israel's defense minister says

 Eliezer Rauchberger, deputy mayor and head of the powerful Local Planning and Construction Committee.

Who are the haredi Jews running in Jerusalem's municipal election?

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

'More equal than others': Lapid lashes out at Israel's IDF draft plan

 MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS are postponed again– to Feb. 27.

Israeli or haredi Jerusalem: The municipal election race starts getting attention

 THE HAREDI COMMUNITY’S experience illustrates that change, when introduced carefully and respectfully, can be integrated into the fabric of tradition without compromising its essence.

Israeli haredi education balances between tradition, change

By NECHUMI YAFFE
 A man casts his vote in the Israeli general elections, at a polling station in Jerusalem, on November 1, 2022.

Jerusalem elections: How are parties drumming up support?

 Nissim Black.

Rapper Nissim Black keeps Israel uplifted amid war with Hamas

 HAREDIM PROTEST at the city’s Bar Ilan intersection, following the arrest of a haredi draft-dodger. The Peleg faction frequently spearheads such protests; Illustrative.

IDF withdraws from West Bank city amid abuse, violence by haredi Jews

 ZAKA PERSONNEL clean blood stains left from the October 7 massacre, in Kibbutz Be'eri, on December 19, 2023.

Amid Israel-Hamas War, haredim reassess their role in society

By NECHUMI YAFFE
 Haredi men dressed in traditional ultra-Orthodox garb stand behind a group of religious IDF soldiers

At least 450 ultra-Orthodox Jews join IDF since October 7 massacre

By Brooke Sarah Borden
 ORTHODOX SOLDIERS participate in an IDF swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem.

War has brought haredi community closer to mainstream Israel

 Olim on the 64th Nefesh B’Nefesh charter flight pose with organization’s Co-founders Rabbi Yehoshua Fass and Tony Gelbart; Minister of Aliyah and Integration, Ofir Sofer; and Director-General of the Ministry of Aliyah and Integration, Avichai Kahana.

Nearly 40% of US ultra-Orthodox Jews considering aliyah amid rising antisemitism