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Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
June 21, 2026, 8:52 am
Top Shas rabbi: US-Iran deal is divine punishment for arrests of Haredi draft dodgers
Ex-Sephardic chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, known for controversial remarks on matters of religion and state, also says ‘garbage’ attorney general to blame for Trump’s ‘turn against’ Israel
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox men attend Lag B'Omer celebrations on Mount Meron, northern Israel, on May 4, 2026. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 5, 2026, 2:30 am
Haredi masses breach Meron, flouting wartime Lag B’Omer restrictions
Police deny reports that thousands reached Galilee shrine illegally, even as revelers recount bypassing restrictions with ease; Ben Gvir lauds cops for working ‘very gently’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Israelis gather in a dual-purpose bomb shelter in Arad, also used as a Haredi synagogue, during an alert for an Iranian missile attack on southern Israel on March 25, 2026. (Courtesy/Lilach Inbar Haviv)
March 29, 2026, 8:34 pm
In Arad, missile blast adds fuel to feud over shelters being used as synagogues
Residents of increasingly Haredi city say many public safe spaces are either decrepit or unusable due to renovations for dual-use, as war becomes latest battleground over religious influence
By Charlie Summers
Ultra-Orthodox man arrested by police during riots following an assault on two female Israeli soldiers in Bnei Brak, central Israel, February 15, 2026. (Flash90)
February 16, 2026, 10:31 pm
7 suspects held for Bnei Brak attack on female soldiers sent to house arrest; rest go free
IDF rejects police claim that servicewomen attacked in Bnei Brak were in area to encourage Haredi enlistment, while anti-draft protests briefly revive near Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh
By Charlie Summers, Emanuel Fabian and Sam Sokol
Children learn about the customs of Rosh Hashanah at a kindergarten in Moshav Yashresh, central Israel, October 1, 2024. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
January 21, 2026, 7:46 pm
Jerusalem daycare deaths put spotlight on longstanding gaps in Haredi early childhood care
Data from 2022 suggests that hundreds of unlicensed nurseries for ages 0-3 operate in Israel amid a countrywide lack of educational and security standards
By Rossella Tercatin
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the planned autopsy of babies who died in a daycare, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 20, 2026, 7:40 pm
High Court nixes autopsies of babies found dead at daycare as Haredim riot in protest
Elderly man assaulted as ultra-Orthodox rage against ‘desecration’ of infants who died at unlicensed Jerusalem daycare; teen protester blocking road is run over, moderately injured
By Stav Levaton and ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of two babies who died in an unlicensed daycare, in Jerusalem, January 19, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
January 20, 2026, 3:38 am
Haredi extremists riot against autopsies of babies who died at unlicensed Jerusalem daycare
Police clash with hundreds of protesters who burn garbage bins, block roads in capital and Beit Shemesh, as parents plan to appeal ruling in favor of authorities’ request for operation
By ToI Staff
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir speaks at the 'Leaders on the Home Front' conference in central Israel, January 6, 2026. (Israel Defense Forces)
January 19, 2026, 11:45 pm
IDF chief warns PM, Katz that manpower shortage harming army’s preparedness
Letter from Zamir to Netanyahu and other officials comes as government works to pass a bill enshrining blanket exemptions from military conscription for Haredi men
By Lazar Berman, Emanuel Fabian, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Medics at the scene of an incident at an unlicensed daycare in the ultra-Orthodox Romema neighborhood in Jerusalem, on January 19, 2026. (Magen David Adom)
January 19, 2026, 8:01 pm
Haredi leaders blame babies’ deaths on state’s push to draft ultra-Orthodox men
Shas, UTJ link tragedy at overcrowded, illegal daycare to attorney general’s instruction to cut childcare subsidies for draft evaders; hundreds protest babies’ autopsy
By Rossella Tercatin and Sam Sokol
Rescue and security forces work at the scene of a mass-casualty incident at an illegal daycare in Jerusalem's Haredi-majority Romema neighborhood, on January 19, 2026. (Goldberg/Flash90)
January 19, 2026, 4:31 pm
2 babies die in incident at unlicensed Jerusalem daycare; 3 caregivers detained
53 children injured at daycare in the Haredi Romema neighborhood; video shows babies, toddlers sleeping underneath toilets, in closets; hundreds protest planned autopsies
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at a 40-signature debate at the Knesset in Jerusalem, January 5, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 6, 2026, 5:45 am
‘You were completely wrong’: Netanyahu spars with Lapid in stormy Knesset debate
PM, opposition leader argue over relations with US, October 7, Haredi draft exemption bill in so-called 40-signature session called by Gantz to discuss ‘extremist government’
By Lazar Berman and Ariela Karmel
Illustrative: An IDF soldier walks among Haredi men during a protest in Jerusalem against a potential new draft law that they fear could end their exemptions from military service, October 31, 2024. (AP/Ohad Zwigenberg)
December 17, 2025, 4:12 pm
Lawmakers urge new definition of who is Haredi to close draft bill loophole
MKs argue against current method of counting anyone who briefly went to ultra-Orthodox school, citing study showing most ‘Haredi’ recruits are actually no longer in the community
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox men block Route 4 during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an IDF draft order, Bnei Brak, December 8, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)
December 8, 2025, 11:13 pm
Haredi anti-draft protesters block highway; driver arrested for hitting teen
Police say protester moderately injured after car rammed into crowd on Route 4 outside Bnei Brak; motorcyclist also detained for attempting to drive through crowd
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Dr. Gilad Malach (courtesy) superimposed over a photo of ultra-Orthodox Jews from the two rival factions of the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, November 19, 2025. (Erik Marmor/Flash90)
December 2, 2025, 9:40 pm
Dr. Gilad Malach: Haredi draft bill is a wedge issue for a divided nation
As the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee debates a new bill aimed at regulating Haredi draft exemptions, Israel Democracy Institute research fellow explains its evolution
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Police clash with ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a protest against conscription to the IDF, in Jerusalem on October 30, 2025. (Fadel SENNA / AFP)
October 30, 2025, 10:56 pm
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men clash with cops at end of anti-enlistment protest
Three officers said wounded by Haredi protesters who block entrance to Jerusalem following massive rally; footage shows cop waving gun as he evacuates injured colleague
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
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