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 ‘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.’

Netanyahu orders removal of haredi daycare bill from Knesset plenum agenda

 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

 An illustrative image of Jews celebrating with Torah scrolls on Simchat Torah.

On Simchat Torah, we dance because we refuse to let the darkness win

By Jacob Schimmel
 Charred building in Kibbutz Nir Oz

UTJ member: Leftist kibbutz members are responsible for October 7, should not come to memorial

 HOUSING MINISTER Yitzhak Goldknopf, United Torah Judaism’s leader, in the Knesset last month. He turned to his Jewish heritage and instincts regarding the plight of the hostages, notes the writer.

Goldknopf – UTJ will not support 2025 budget without haredi IDF draft bill

National Security Minister Itamar Ben-Gvir at a conference called "Israel's Return to the Temple Mount," at the Knesset on July 24, 2024.

Otzma Yehudit joins UTJ in threat to boycott Knesset plenum this week

 UTJ MK Yisrael Eichler points at a fellow lawmaker in the Knesset plenum.

MK Yisrael Eichler says VP Kamala Harris poses 'global danger'

 Itamar Ben-Gvir gestures following the announcement of exit polls at his party headquarters in Jerusalem.

Otzma Yehudit and haredi parties negotiating to pass series of controversial measures

(L-R) Benjamin Netanyahu; Itamar Ben-Gvir

Right-wing voters already marking Ben-Gvir as Netanyahu's potential successor

By MOSHE COHEN
 Incoming IDF Deputy Chief of Staff Amir Baram gives remarks at his inauguration ceremony, October 31, 2022.

Controversy over what Deputy IDF chief Baram told defense committee about Haredi draft

 HAREDI MEN learn at the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim, Sept. 13, 2023.

Approximately 20 private-haredi schools are planning to switch to the state-haredi education system

 (L-R) Jerusalem and Jewish Tradition Minister Meir Porush; Shas leader Arye Deri

'Holy Torah will prevail': Haredi lawmakers, ministers rage at Israel's High Court

 MK ARYE DERI leads a parliamentary faction meeting of his Shas party, in the Knesset, last month.

Haredi parties Shas and UTJ announce support for hostage deal

 Itamar Ben Gvir

Ben-Gvir threatens coalition after spat with haredi parties

 Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Cabinet minister Benny Gantz during a press conference in the Kirya military base in Tel Aviv , Israel , 28 October 2023.

Likud regains some ground, Gantz maintains lead in new poll

 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?

THE KNESSET Finance Committee’s incoming chairman, United Torah Judaism’s Moshe Gafni, presents an anti-economic bill that challenges the capitalist zeal of incoming finance minister Bezalel Smotrich.

Israel could permit sale of wine in Israel after 11 p.m. on Thursdays

 Labor party leader MK Merav Michaeli holds a press conference in Tel Aviv, December 7, 2023.

Israel's Labor largely unaffected after Michaeli's resignation, election poll shows