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Moti Almoz (Abir Sultan/Flash90)
May 19, 2017, 5:18 pm
Ultra-Orthodox protesters compare top IDF official to Hitler, army service to Auschwitz
Police launch probe into extremists' actions; chief-of-staff expresses 'revulsion'; defense minister calls behavior 'intolerable'
By TOI staff
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish man from the Israeli settlement of Beitar Illit seen talking with Arabs as he gets his car washed at the Hussan Junction Palestinian-owned car wash in the West Bank, on November 11, 2015. (Nati Shohat/Flash90)
May 19, 2017, 12:09 am
Half of Israel to be Arab, ultra-Orthodox by 2059 – projections
Figures show Israeli population will grow to 18 million in just over four decades, up from 8.6 million today
By TOI staff
A woman in a conversion court. (photo credit: File/Flash90)
May 18, 2017, 9:58 am
Jewish groups criticize proposed Israeli conversion bill
American Reform leaders say legislation an attempt by ultra-Orthodox parties to create a religious 'monopoly' in Israel
By JTA
Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn an Israeli flag during Lag B'Omer celebrations in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim in Jerusalem, on May 13, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 17, 2017, 8:08 pm
Ultra-Orthodox man, boys detained for burning Israeli flag
Adult arrested, two minors questioned over Lag B'Omer incident that also saw IDF soldier burned in effigy
By TOI staff
Haredi children in Jerusalem. (photo credit: David Vaaknin/Flash90)
May 15, 2017, 3:22 pm
Haredi textbooks reinforce barricades
School curricula portray a hostile, us-them world and the biggest enemy is modernity itself
By Marcus Sheff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn an effigy of an IDF soldier during Lag B'Omer celebrations in the ultra-orthodox neighborhood of Mea She'arim in Jerusalem on May 13, 2017. (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
May 14, 2017, 1:33 pm
Netanyahu blasts ‘despicable’ burning of IDF soldier in effigy
PM says incident in Jerusalem an attempt by 'extremist faction' to hurt ultra-Orthodox troops, calls for police action; Liberman, Deri echo condemnations
By Raoul Wootliff and TOI staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews at a big bonfire during celebrations of the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in the Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on May 14, 2017. (Flash90)
May 14, 2017, 10:15 am
Hundreds of thousands flock to Galilee mountain for Lag B’Omer festival
Huge crowds defy state rabbinate's delay of holiday to celebrate the ancient sage Rabbi Shimon Bar Yohai near his tomb on Mount Meron
By TOI staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews burn an effigy of an Israeli soldier during celebrations marking the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim, May 14, 2017. (Screen capture: Chaim Goldberg/Channel 2)
May 14, 2017, 5:19 am
Ultra-Orthodox in Jerusalem burn effigy of Israeli soldier
Dozens of people, including children, cheer as figure made to look like religious soldier is set alight during Lag B'Omer festivities
By TOI staff
Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protesting for the release of jailed draft dodgers break into Tzrifin army base, May 10, 2017. (Screen capture: Channel 2)
May 12, 2017, 1:11 am
Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators break into army base
Protesting jailing of a woman as a draft dodger, men riot inside Tzrifin for several minutes before police evict them
By TOI staff
Ultra-orthodox Jews in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim burn an Israeli flag at the end of the country‘s 69th Independence Day, May 2, 2017. (Channel 10 screenshot.)
May 3, 2017, 1:41 am
Group of ultra-Orthodox Jews marks Independence Day by burning Israeli flag
TV footage shows men and boys from Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood watching as flag is waved back and forth in bonfire
By Sue Surkes
Minister Ayoub Kara attends a ceremony for fallen ultra-Orthodox soldiers at a cemetery in the city of Bnei Brak on May 1, 2017, Israel's Memorial Day. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
May 1, 2017, 10:09 pm
Despite protests, dozens gather to honor fallen ultra-Orthodox soldiers
Druze minister says 'not even over his dead body' will he allow religious extremists to shame Haredi servicemen
By Judah Ari Gross
Health Minister Yaakov Litzman at a Memorial Day ceremony in Kiryat Gat, May 1, 2017. (Ministry of Health)
May 1, 2017, 12:00 pm
In quiet revolution, ultra-Orthodox mark Memorial Day
Despite historic opposition to IDF service, Haredi media and leaders approve of ceremonies organized for community's fallen soldiers and terror victims
By Stuart Winer
Noa Tnua founder Roy Schwartz Tichon, second from right, and board member Noam Tel-Verem, third from right, posing with volunteers before the launch of their bus service in Ramat Gan, Israel, June 6, 2015. (Avihai Levy)
April 29, 2017, 6:18 am
Fed up with Shabbat laws, secular Israelis fund bus service to the beach
Noa Tnua, a tiny Tel Aviv busing cooperative, crowdfunds to expand its service to the coast on weekends, when most public transport shuts down
By Andrew Tobin
Interior Minister Aryeh Deri arrives to the weekly cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on April 9, 2017. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)
April 26, 2017, 6:43 pm
Interior minister asks AG to have court revisit Tel Aviv Shabbat ruling
Move by Aryeh Deri part of efforts by religious MKs to fight measure allowing mini-markets to open on Jewish day of rest
By Alexander Fulbright
A child member of the ultra-Orthodox 'Lev Tahor' Jewish sect, looks on at the building where the group was staying in Guatemala City on September 2, 2014. (photo credit: AFP/Johan ORDONEZ)
April 25, 2017, 7:03 pm
Israeli court rules Central American ultra-Orthodox sect is a ‘dangerous cult’
Verdict calls on state to take action in order to return children held illegally by Lev Tahor group
By Jacob Magid
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