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Rabbi Dov Lando speaks on April 26, 2026. (Courtesy)
July 20, 2026, 7:30 pm
Top Haredi rabbi says religious soldiers committing murder; Netanyahu issues rare criticism
Degel HaTorah spiritual leader suggests Israel sends soldiers to war ‘for the honor of the state,’ which ‘incites murder’; Haredi lawmakers defend his comments
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox lawmakers attend a vote to dissolve the Knesset, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 24, 2026, 11:29 pm
Haredi parties reject latest draft exemption bill, setting stage for Sept. elections
Spiritual leader of ultra-Orthodox faction believes Netanyahu has no intention of letting the bill pass into law, is instead trying to use it for a larger electoral maneuver
By Sam Sokol
Rabbi Dov Lando casts his vote at a voting station on the morning of the Municipal Elections, in Bnei Brak, on February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90/ File)
May 13, 2026, 9:30 am
Ultra-Orthodox parties break with Netanyahu but know they have nowhere else to go
Despite Rabbi Lando’s ultimatum and anger over the draft law, any talk of a historic alliance with the center-left is baseless, as the Haredi factions rightly fear losing their voters
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Around 1,000 ultra-Orthodox men gather in Bnei Brak for a Passover holiday event, despite Home Front Command restrictions on gatherings during wartime, on April 5, 2026. (Daniel Nafusi)
April 6, 2026, 4:17 am
Flouting wartime restrictions, over 1,000 men gather for address by top Haredi rabbi
Spokesperson for rabbi insists gathering held in protective space in Bnei Brak; police say it refused permit for event and requested its dispersal after learning of it
By Sam Sokol
Rabbi Dov Lando addresses a gathering in honor of two draft dodgers released from prison in Bnei Brak, January 4, 2026. (Shuki Lerner via Lando’s spokesman)
February 12, 2026, 1:11 pm
Top Haredi rabbi vows no yeshiva student will be drafted to IDF
Rabbi Dov Lando, spiritual leader of Degel Hatorah political faction, promises no conscription ‘whether authorities agree or not,’ denounces ‘terrible persecution’ of Torah world
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students at the Gilat junction, near the southern Israeli city of Ofakim, February 9, 2026. (Tsafrir Abayov/Flash90)
February 10, 2026, 11:50 am
Haredi spiritual leaders: Those who arrest draft dodgers could face divine retribution
Rabbis of Shas, UTJ’s Degel HaTorah call on Military Police to refuse orders rather than commit the ‘terrible crime’ of arresting ultra-Orthodox men evading military service
By Sam Sokol
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
Rabbi Dov Lando in Bnei Brak, August 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
January 5, 2026, 12:56 pm
Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbi: Those enforcing Haredi draft are fighting against God
Degel HaTorah spiritual leader Rabbi Dov Lando celebrates release of draft dodgers from military prison, claims Haredim are ‘in exile among Jews’
By Sam Sokol
Rabbi Dov Lando in Bnei Brak, August 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
November 19, 2025, 1:25 pm
UTJ’s Degel HaTorah faction says it supports latest version of draft exemption bill, for now
Party’s rabbinic leaders insist that yeshiva students be allowed to ‘continue to study,’ says spokesman for Rabbi Lando; Religious Zionism party demands a law that ‘enlists Haredim’
By Sam Sokol
A demonstrator holds up a poster of Haredi draft evader Ariel Shamai which reads: "Bring him back to yeshiva now!" and in smaller print on the left: "Until the last hostage," imitating the rhetoric of the hostage families' protest movement, during an anti-draft demonstration in Jerusalem on October 22, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 22, 2025, 10:47 pm
Haredi anti-draft protests decry dodgers’ arrests, co-opting hostage families’ rhetoric
‘Until the last hostage’: Protest groups use fliers and slogans likening detainees to those kidnapped by Hamas on Oct. 7; demonstrators block roads, throw stones, call cops ‘Nazis’
By Charlie Summers and Sam Sokol
Yeshiva students participate in a prayer service against IDF conscription at Bnei Brak’s Slobodka Yeshiva, August 21, 2025. (Sam Sokol/The Times of Israel)
August 21, 2025, 9:19 pm
‘Studying Torah is what protects us’: Haredi leaders conduct prayers against IDF draft
Rabbi Dov Lando celebrates with draft evader in Bnei Brak; Tzohar’s Rabbi David Stav counters that prayer and fasting against conscription is a ‘despicable disgrace of God’s name’
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators block a road in Jerusalem during a protest against the detention of yeshiva students who ignored IDF conscription orders, August 07, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 19, 2025, 8:54 pm
Haredi leaders call for global day of prayer, fasting to protest arrest of draft dodgers
Jews in Antwerp, London, Paris and New York set to protest ‘religious persecution’ of yeshiva students Thursday, with domestic prayer rallies to be held in Bnei Brak and Jerusalem
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators burn enlistment orders at a demonstration outside the Beit Lid military prison, August 14, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)
August 15, 2025, 5:05 am
‘Free the hostages’: Hundreds of Haredim protest outside prison holding draft evaders
Ultra-Orthodox extremists set fire to IDF conscription orders, briefly try to break into military prison, with some claiming their political leaders haven’t been hardline enough
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest outside army recruitment offices in Jerusalem on August 13, 2025. The pictures in the posters, mimicking those of Hamas-held hostages, are of arrested draft-dodgers with text urging their release. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
August 13, 2025, 7:13 pm
Haredi leaders plan large protests outside IDF prison in support of detained draft dodgers
Hundreds of rabbis set to attend rallies at Beit Lid on Thursday evening; Slonim Hasidic group urges ‘struggle against the enlistment decree and the persecution of Torah students’
By Sam Sokol
A student stands outside of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, August 6, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
August 8, 2025, 7:04 am
Students at flagship Jerusalem yeshiva dismiss danger of arrest as IDF cracks down
‘Every day in [my prayers] I say that I am ready to die for the sanctification of God’s name,’ says student at Mir Yeshiva, insisting that he would rather go to jail than enlist
By Sam Sokol
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