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Behadrei Haredim

Defense Minister Israel Katz (left) and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri speak in the Knesset, December 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 13, 2025, 5:29 am
Why did the Haredim agree to an enlistment plan containing sanctions?
Shas, Degel Hatorah chose to support new outline containing scaled back sanctions in an effort to ‘buy time’ in the face of a pending wave of IDF conscription orders, say experts
By Sam Sokol
Pini Einhorn hugs a child at a shiva in Israel in October 2023. (Courtesy: Pini Einhorn)
October 22, 2023, 3:03 pm
Not just prayers: War sparks unprecedented mobilization by ultra-Orthodox Israelis
Some 2,000 volunteer IDF soldiers are at the forefront of an effort that some hope will change the minority’s relationship with the rest of society long-term
By Canaan Lidor
From left, Tamar Gottlieb, Yochi Rappeport, Anna Kislanski, Rakefet Ginsberg, and Orly Erez-Likhovski, pose for a photograph in court on December 4, 2022. (Courtesy/Women of the Wall)
December 4, 2022, 1:46 pm
Ultra-Orthodox news website apologizes, will pay fine for blurring faces of women
Behadrei Haredim outlet reaches deal with 5 women after Reform movement’s Israel Religious Action Center sues over coverage of a meeting between Jewish leaders and President Herzog
By Judah Ari Gross
A picture of a meeting between President Isaac Herzog and Jewish leaders in Jerusalem distributed by the President's Residence in December 2021, with faces of females blurred, as it appeared in Behadrei Haredim according to a lawsuit. (Courtesy: IRAC)
May 19, 2022, 9:39 am
Female Jewish leaders sue Haredi news site for blurring their faces
Lawsuit filed by Israel Religious Action Center claims photo caused plaintiffs ‘harm and humiliation’; website denies wrongdoing: ‘This is our way of life’
By Tobias Siegal
An ultra-Orthodox news site in Israel blurred the face of the only woman in a photo published on June 7, 2021. (Screenshot from Behadrei Haredim via JTA)
June 7, 2021, 11:00 pm
Ultra-Orthodox site blurs face of Labor’s female leader
Merav Michaeli censored from group photo of party chiefs in so-called ‘change bloc’
By JTA and ToI Staff
A man accused of being an undercover Christian missionary living as an ultra-Orthodox Jew in Jerusalem (Screencapture/Channel 13)
April 26, 2021, 4:08 am
Shock in Jerusalem community as ‘rabbi’ outed as undercover Christian missionary
Family has been supported by ultra-Orthodox community after mother died of cancer, father worked as scribe and mohel; investigators say they faked being Jewish to move to Israel
By ToI Staff
Part of the technical area of the Eurovision stage in Tel Aviv, May 5, 2019. (Thomas Hanses, Eurovision)
May 6, 2019, 7:25 pm
UTJ freezes coalition talks in protest of Eurovision work on Shabbat
Senior lawmakers ask why thousands of permits were suddenly issued for preparations to be made for song contest final while the Saturday sun is still in the sky
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Donald Trump holds a question-and-answer session with Jewish reporters at his offices at Trump Tower, New York, April 14, 2016. (Uriel Heilman/JTA)
November 2, 2016, 12:58 pm
Judaism’s greatest mystical text ‘predicts Trump victory,’ Israel GOP head reveals
Citing an unnamed ultra-Orthodox expert on the seminal ‘Zohar’ work, Marc Zell says Trump campaign staffers in US were ‘amazed’ at the news
By ToI Staff
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally with Vice President Joe Biden (L) in Scranton, Pennsylvania on August 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/DOMINICK REUTER)
August 25, 2016, 6:17 pm
In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox press, Hillary Clinton is invisible
Democrat’s potential ascension to presidency is renewing debate in some Haredi circles over acceptability of photos of women
By Daniella Cheslow
Screenshot from a video showing the burning of an Israeli flag in Mea Shearim during Lag B'Omer celebrations on Wednesday, May 25, 2016.
May 30, 2016, 6:40 am
Israeli flag burned in Lag B’Omer festivities in Mea Shearim
Young child slowly torches flag to cheers and applause from audience in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood
By ToI Staff
MK Hanin Zoabi speaks to the press on February 17, 2015 (Hadas Parush/FLASH90)
February 9, 2016, 2:20 pm
Justice minister, ultra-Orthodox balk as MK suspension bill races ahead
Shaked says measure ‘not the solution’; UTJ demands booting of legislators who deny Israel is Jewish and democratic, incite, or support terror
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: The 2015 Netanyahu government as photographed on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, with womens faces pixelated by the ultra-Orthodox Behadrey Haredim website. (Flash 90)
June 4, 2015, 6:10 am
They would have blurred Golda Meir’s face, too
The ultra-Orthodox papers’ censorship of women’s faces has been entrenched for decades, experts point out, and hardly represents a shift to radicalization
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: A religious Jewish soldier is embraced by an ultra-Orthodox Jewish family member after a swearing-in ceremony for the IDF Nahal Haredi unit, at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem, May 26, 2012 (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
August 5, 2014, 8:42 pm
Shunning taboo, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox seek to volunteer for IDF
‘We want to show both the army and our own public that there is a different way of doing things,’ says Haredi coordinator
By Elhanan Miller
An ultra-Orthodox couple at a cemetery (illustrative photo credit: Nati Shohat/Flash90)
August 7, 2012, 10:12 am
Come on dad, we’re moving: Family transfers grave because of inappropriate ‘neighbors’
Two sons secretly exhume their rabbi father’s remains eight years after his death
By Aaron Kalman
July 12, 2012, 7:37 pm
Police recommend indictments in ultra-Orthodox internet blackmail scandal
Website allegedly extorted hundreds of thousands of shekels from rabbis, politicians and other public figures by threatening to publish defamatory information about them
By Michal Shmulovich
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