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Eda Haredit

A Haredi man places tefillin on a soldier in the Old City of Jerusalem, June 25, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 24, 2024, 4:32 am
As 1,000 IDF draft orders are sent out, most Haredim adopt a wait-and-see attitude
In an ultra-Orthodox community in Haifa, would-be conscripts appear unperturbed by the strongest challenge yet to their decades-long free pass
By Canaan Lidor
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend the funeral of Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss in Jerusalem, July 31, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 31, 2022, 4:59 pm
Funeral of anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox leader, 95, draws thousands to Jerusalem
Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss was head of the hardline Eda Haredit group; mourners clash with police officers in two reported incidents
By ToI Staff
Police and Jerusalem city workers take apart a sukkah in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood that was deemed a safety hazzard, September 19, 2021. (Israel Police)
September 19, 2021, 8:29 am
Amid scuffles with police, hazardous sukkah taken down in Jerusalem
Cops assist municipal authorities in taking apart structure balanced high atop scaffolding in ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss, leader of the Eda Haredit, on June 16, 2010. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
April 2, 2020, 2:58 pm
Head of hardline Eda Haredit, initially resistant on virus rules, is infected
Rabbi Yitzchok Tuvia Weiss’s staunchly anti-Zionist ultra-Orthodox organization at first sought to avoid regulations before reversing course
By Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with Israeli police during a protest in Jerusalem on April 10, 2014, following the arrest of a Haredi draft-dodger. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 23, 2019, 12:41 am
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox riot, block roads over draft-dodger arrest
Young woman was likely eligible for exemption from military service, but refused to show up at conscription office to declare her wish to be released
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video of bride Shira Hirschkovitz drumming at her own wedding. (YouTube)
February 28, 2019, 2:18 pm
Bride drums up controversy at her wedding
Newlywed pounds out a beat to the delight of guests, but ultra-Orthodox supervisors rap hall owners over ‘modesty’ issues
By Stuart Winer
The outside view of the Barkan winery in Hulda, central Israel. (screen capture: YouTube)
June 29, 2018, 7:23 pm
Kashrut authority revokes winery’s license for reinstating Ethiopian workers
Eda Haredit, which provoked racism storm, says it has frozen kosher certification for certain wines due to doubts over Jewish status of employees
By ToI Staff
Wine barrels piled up at the Barkan winery. August 2, 2012. (Mendy Hechtman/FLASH90)
June 27, 2018, 12:38 am
After furor, Barkan winery says Ethiopian workers to work as usual
Leading winemaker had banned employees of African descent from coming into contact with wine to comply with strict new kosher license, prompting cries of racism
By Tamar Pileggi and ToI Staff
Employees of the Barkan Winery who were transferred from their jobs over questions of their Jewishness. (screen capture: Kan)
June 26, 2018, 11:25 am
Outcry as Barkan winery shuns Ethiopian workers, casts doubt on their Jewishness
Leading winemaker bans employees of African descent from coming into contact with wine to comply with strict new kashrut license; Sephardi chief rabbi slams move as ‘pure racism’
By Tamar Pileggi
Police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrating in Jerusalem against the conscription of members of their community to the IDF, on October 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/ Menahem Kahana)
October 22, 2017, 10:29 pm
Cops draw flack for marking ultra-Orthodox protesters arms with numbers
Critics say police acted like Nazis branding concentration camp inmates; cops say detainees refused to identify themselves
By ToI Staff
Police officers arrests an ultra-Orthodox Jew during a demonstration in Jerusalem against the conscription of members of the ultra-Orthodox community to the IDF on October 19, 2017. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
October 19, 2017, 9:53 pm
Police arrest 120 ultra-Orthodox protesters during anti-draft ‘day of rage’
Demonstrators block roads, burn trash in Jerusalem over arrest of seminary students for failing to appear at induction center
By ToI Staff
An ultra-Orthodox Jew holds a sign during a protest in Jerusalem against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews to the IDF on October 19, 2017. (AFP Photo/Thomas Coex)
October 19, 2017, 3:14 pm
Ultra-Orthodox mount ‘day of rage’ against army draft
Police arrest 40 people in Jerusalem for blocking roads, failing to obey orders
By ToI Staff
Thousands attend the funeral of Rabbi Shmuel Wosner on April 4, 2015 in Bnei Brak. (photo credit: Flash90)
April 5, 2015, 8:45 am
Mourner trampled to death at funeral of ultra-Orthodox rabbi
Victim named as Mordechai Gerber, 27; dozens injured, including four seriously, as thousands attend burial of Bnei Brak Rabbi Shmuel Wosner, 101
By Avi Lewis
Moshe Gafni (center) and Yaakov Litzman (right) of the United Torah Judaism party in Tel Aviv, January 2013. (photo credit: Yaakov Naumi/Flash 90)
February 24, 2014, 11:43 am
Haredi leaders wary of publicly opposing draft law
‘Yair Lapid failed on the economy and will fail in this too,’ says MK Gafni, but says protests may increase Lapid’s Knesset seats
By Haviv Rettig Gur
An Ultra Orthodox boy is arrested during a large protest outside the military prison, south of Haifa December 9, 2013. (photo credit: Avishag Shaar Yeshuv/Flash 90)
December 9, 2013, 8:57 pm
Protest against arrest of draft dodgers turns violent
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators gather outside prison to support yeshiva students who failed to answer draft summons
By ToI Staff and AP
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