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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu visits the National Health Command Center, March 9, 2026. (Kobi Gideon/GPO)
March 10, 2026, 11:44 pm
Cabinet okays $1.6 billion in coalition funds, including $715 million for ultra-Orthodox
Allocations approved for Haredi institutions, West Bank settlements and other coalition priorities; opposition politicians accuse government of funding draft evasion during wartime
By Sam Sokol
A relative shows photos of three siblings, Yaakov, Avigail and Sarah Biton, who were killed in a March 1 Iranian missile strike that hit their home in the city of Beit Shemesh, in Jerusalem on March 5, 2026. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
March 6, 2026, 11:19 am
Beit Shemesh family clings to God after 3 kids killed by Iran: ‘Faith isn’t built in a day’
Sitting shiva in a Jerusalem hotel after her home was destroyed, Tamar Biton lights up as she describes Yaakov, Avigail and Sarah, among 9 killed in deadliest Iranian strike
By AP and ToI Staff
Rabbis Dov Lando (left) and Moshe Hillel Hirsch (center) attend an anti-enlistment conference organized by the Vaad HaYeshivot (Yeshiva Committee), July 31, 2025. (Shuki Lehrer)
January 22, 2026, 12:28 am
New recordings indicate Haredi rabbis see conscription law merely as way to buy time
In leaked conversations, ultra-Orthodox leaders admit bill will eventually be canceled by High Court, but insist no members of community will be forced to serve in IDF
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Thousands of Hasidic men converge for the funeral of Rachmastrivka Rebbe in Borough Park, Brooklyn, on August 16, 2023. (Spencer Platt/Getty Images/AFP)
June 21, 2025, 2:15 pm
Board of Haredi news site preaching openness quits after founder renounces mission
Shtetl CEO Naftuli Moster says he didn’t think 3-member board would ‘go along with my evolution,’ decision to quit came from disgust with ‘far-left’ reactions to Oct. 7
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
US. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan sits on a panel at the 2024 Ninth Circuit Judicial Conference in Sacramento, California, July 25, 2024. (AP Photo/Rich Pedroncelli)
May 1, 2025, 6:40 pm
Jewish US justice ponders publicly funded yeshivas in case of religious charter school
As Supreme Court seen set to extend state support to Oklahoma Catholic school, Elena Kagan asks if NY would have to fund ultra-Orthodox institutions that don’t teach English, math
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Women pushing strollers walk past the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer/ Getty Images via AFP)
March 21, 2025, 8:44 am
Three more NYC yeshivas to lose funding as secular education standards take effect
Parents at ultra-Orthodox schools in Brooklyn told to look elsewhere for their kids’ education, ahead of New York’s June 30 deadline for secular education mandate
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ateret Shlomo yeshiva chain dance and sing at the wedding of the seminary chief's son, in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, March 11, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 13, 2025, 10:15 am
Outrage as students at state-funded Haredi yeshiva sing anti-Zionist, anti-enlistment anthem
‘We don’t believe in the government of infidels and we won’t show up at their [army] recruitment offices,’ sing thousands of Ateret Shlomo young men at mass wedding
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, left, and Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, right, arriving for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem on September 27, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
March 2, 2025, 1:48 am
Haredi party threatens to topple government unless it gets NIS 1 billion for yeshivas
Writing to cabinet secretary, UTJ chief Goldknopf demands ‘immediate’ action on issue to ensure his party backs the crucial state budget; previous ultimatums haven’t been acted on
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: An ultra-Orthodox man crosses a street in a Jewish neighborhood in Williamsburg Brooklyn in New York City on April 24, 2019 (Johannes EISELE / AFP)
February 20, 2025, 12:42 am
2 NYC yeshivas are not meeting standards and must effectively close, state rules
Schools face most significant consequences to date in ongoing fight between Haredi institutions and education officials over minimum requirements for subjects like English and math
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Rabbi Asher Deutsch teaches a class in Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnai Brak in an undated photo. (Givat Hayeshiva)
January 8, 2025, 11:12 am
Till death do them part: After top rabbi dies, power struggle blazes at elite Haredi yeshiva
The split at Ponevezh Yeshiva runs so deep that it delayed the head rabbi’s funeral last month, but when it comes to the army, the question is not ‘if’ but ‘how’ to evade the draft
By Mati Wagner
Rabbi Meir Shapiro sits in the library of the Chachmei Lublin Yeshiva in a photograph taken between the yeshiva's opening in 1930 and his death in 1933. The fate of the yeshiva's library under the Nazis is a subject of mystery. (Courtesy Grodzka Gate-NN Theater Center)
May 6, 2024, 10:03 am
Thought to be destroyed by Nazis, books of the Lublin Yeshiva Library are turning up
Though story has it that the texts were burned in 1939, this is uncorroborated. Local Piotr Nazaruk has located and digitized 850 of them – the tip of the iceberg, he says
By Shira Li Bartov
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and youth raise placards during a protest against Israeli army conscription outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem on April 11, 2024. (Menahem Kahana / AFP)
May 2, 2024, 5:59 pm
Ex-AG accuses government of ‘attempted regime coup’ over private counsel maneuver
Avichai Mandelblit makes accusation 2 days after the government defied the AG and allowed ministries and IDF to bypass her position on drafting of Haredi students, yeshiva funding
By Jeremy Sharon
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attends a prayer for the release of Israelis held hostage in Gaza, at Rachel's Tomb, near the Palestinian West Bank city of Bethlehem, October 25, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 28, 2024, 2:18 pm
Chief rabbi under fire for crediting yeshivas, not army, with Israel’s survival in war
Critics slam Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, with one retorting that by that logic, the rabbi himself ‘should go to jail with his supporters for their failure on October 7’
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men arrive at the IDF recruitment center to volunteer for military service amid the ongoing war against Hamas, October 23, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 13, 2024, 10:34 pm
Can winds of change in Haredi community help defuse battle over conscription?
While some are steadfastly opposed to service, others claim growing openness to the draft, particularly post-Oct. 7, and argue authorities would be wise to use carrots, not sticks
By Reuters and ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ponovitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 1, 2024, 7:36 pm
The High Court’s yeshiva funding ruling goes into effect today. What does it entail?
Starting this week, hundreds of yeshivas will see their budgets slashed, prompting leading rabbis to look abroad to raise the funds needed to continue operating
By Sam Sokol
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