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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 492

Haredi employment

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
A class of Adva students at the Seminar Yashan of Beis Yaacov in Jerusalem; July 2019 (Courtesy)
August 28, 2019, 4:52 pm
With rabbis’ blessing, women-for-tech program creates ‘ripples’ in Haredi world
A pilot program backed by top tech firms and university profs is teaching ultra-Orthodox young women the skills needed to land well-paid software engineering jobs
By Shoshanna Solomon
Robert Reichmann
June 7, 2018, 2:37 pm
Robert Reichmann
The days of non-working ultra-Orthodox are over
Haredi employment is rising thanks to programs that bridge the gap between being trained and getting hired
Dov Lipman
May 2, 2018, 3:31 pm
Dov Lipman
The Haredi Spring
The young people of Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community are making their move to integrate into Israeli society
Avraham Edelstein
January 11, 2018, 2:08 pm
Avraham Edelstein
The ripples of a stone in Beit Shemesh
A Haredi response to extremism: Judaism is soft and gentle and kind, let’s join hands and begin to talk
Lee Cahaner
January 7, 2018, 3:42 pm
Lee Cahaner
Haredi women lead change
Ultra-Orthodox women marry young, have many children, run their homes, and pursue higher ed like never before
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