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Young students in a classroom in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, August 25, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 5, 2026, 5:14 pm
Why these elections are the last chance to save Israel from its ‘spiral of collapse’
Israel’s entire education system is in crisis. And its fastest-growing community, the ultra-Orthodox, is getting by far the worst education of all. An inadequate education spells a non-competitive workforce, a weakened army, and a country that simply won’t survive
By David Horovitz
Ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students learn at the Ateret Shlomo Yeshiva, in Rishon Lezion on June 11, 2025. (Shlomi Cohen/Flash90)
February 10, 2026, 11:30 pm
By 2050, almost one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox, study indicates
Haredim constitute 23.5% of those eligible for military, which expected to rise to 40% by 2050, says Israel Democracy Institute; if Haredim don’t integrate, GDP could fall by 10%
By Rossella Tercatin
Hozrim Betvuna founder Naor Narkis, right, speaks with a passerby in the largely ultra-Orthodox central Israeli city of Bnei Brak, May 2025. (Alexandra Vardi)
May 24, 2025, 8:02 am
Venturing into Haredi enclaves, an Israeli atheist tries a new form of Jewish outreach
Naor Narkis has launched a movement to help members of the insular ultra-Orthodox community explore other options – an initiative, he says, that aims to thwart a demographic crisis
By Alexandra Vardi
Rabbi David Leybel, founder of Achvat Torah, in his Jerusalem office, March 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
March 25, 2025, 5:14 pm
‘Our shared nation is under attack’: A Haredi rabbi explains how to draft the ultra-Orthodox
Rabbi David Leybel has already registered significant achievements in integrating Haredim into the workforce. Now he’s turning his sights on military service
By Rossella Tercatin
Ultra-Orthodox extremists opposed to the draft protest and clash with police outside a conference honoring Haredi soldiers, in Jerusalem, January 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 21, 2025, 10:32 am
October 7 changed Israel forever. But the ultra-Orthodox? Not so much, report suggests
Israel Democracy Institute’s study indicates that Haredi solidarity with the rest of society was transient
By Rossella Tercatin
In this undated photo, Rabbi Shimon Hartman, center in white shirt, with Haredi soldiers from Chedvata Yeshiva. (Courtesy)
June 12, 2024, 8:15 am
A yeshiva that preps Haredi men for IDF service mourns first graduate to fall in battle
As Israeli society debates mandatory ultra-Orthodox enlistment amid war, Staff Sgt. Bezalel Kovach’s life and death present a new view of what it means to belong to the community
By Mati Wagner
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men study in the Lithuanian Slabodka yeshiva in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, July 8, 2013. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
August 6, 2023, 7:51 pm
Rising interest rates, inflation drive employment among Haredi men to all-time high
Record 55.8% participation in workforce is still significantly lower than the national rate, and that of Haredi women
By Canaan Lidor
Haredi men attend the funeral of Rabbi Moshe Shapira in Jerusalem on January 8, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 23, 2023, 8:46 pm
Why the new state budget both favors and hurts Haredim… and deeply threatens Israel
Haredim once had fewer children and high employment rates. Government policies changed that. As the community grows, it’s getting harder to justify living at someone else’s expense
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Protesters march in Bnei Brak against the billions in funds provided to ultra-Orthodox parties in the state budget, on May 17, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 21, 2023, 6:28 pm
‘Backward country’: Economists warn government over Haredi budget allocations
In letter, former senior Bank of Israel and Treasury officials say the planned funding of food vouchers and unregulated schools poses an ‘existential threat to Israel’s future’
By Sharon Wrobel
Ultra-Orthodox Jews watch as their rabbi votes in Bnei Brak, Nov. 1, 2022 (AP Photo/Oded Balilty)
January 4, 2023, 4:20 pm
Are Haredi parties standing in the way of their community’s prosperity?
As Haredi factions return to power, can the inward-looking politics of yesteryear rise to the challenge of a community grown too big to live at someone else’s expense?
By Haviv Rettig Gur
Students at an ultra-Orthodox school in Jerusalem on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 2, 2023, 8:58 am
Haredim are fastest-growing population, will be 16% of Israelis by decade’s end
Group includes 1.28 million people in 2023; Haredi women increasingly joining workforce while men’s numbers stagnate; poverty rate twice as high as in general population
By Judah Ari Gross
Rachel Pisam, the first woman to achieve the rank of deputy chief in the Fire and Rescue Service (Courtesy)
October 19, 2022, 7:52 pm
Haredi mother of 11 is first woman to be appointed deputy chief of fire service
Rachel Pisam of Bnei Brak, appointed head of manpower department, says she doesn’t know ‘if it would have been possible a decade ago’
By Ash Obel
Then-education minister Naftali Bennett delivers a statement at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on December 25, 2016. (Hadas Parush/Flash90, file)
February 1, 2022, 2:01 pm
Daily Briefing Feb. 1 – Who scuttled the Western Wall deal; a price hike backlash
US reporter Jacob Magid discusses what really happened with the ‘Kotel compromise’ and political correspondent Tal Schneider looks at a Knesset vote on yeshiva student exemptions
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men work at a high tech start-up in an office in Tel Aviv, on March 15, 2016. (AP Photo/Dan Balilty)
December 30, 2021, 2:23 pm
Nearly two-thirds of Haredim are online, COVID driving them to tech training – poll
Israel Democracy Institute survey finds 64% of ultra-Orthodox Israelis use the internet — compared with 28% in 2008 — albeit with a different focus from other Jewish Israelis
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: Thousands of haredim holding a prayer rally in Jerusalem's Shabbat Square in opposition of the government's plan to start drafting yeshiva students into military and national service on June 25, 2012. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 24, 2019, 6:16 pm
Haredi men’s integration into the workforce slows as government payouts rise
Israel Democracy Institute study suggests ultra-Orthodox men lacking a modern education struggle to earn enough money in job market to make employment worthwhile
By ToI Staff
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