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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 567

Haredi

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
A mob of ultra-Orthodox men attack Maj. Gen. David Zini, the IDF officer tasked with overseeing the Haredi draft, in Bnei Brak, January 9, 2025. (Screenshot, X, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
January 10, 2025, 2:49 pm
Bnei Brak mob attacks senior IDF officer overseeing Haredi draft; 3 arrested
PM, defense minister condemn assault on Maj. Gen. David Zini and his aide in central city; military expresses support for ‘important work’ recruiting ultra-Orthodox soldiers
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox men dance during a special celebration marking the end of Hanukkah, in Meron, northern Israel, on January 2, 2025. (David Cohen/Flash90)
January 9, 2025, 3:08 pm
Haredi men’s employment growth stalls, income gap with mainstream Israel widens – study
Alongside turmoil over low military draft rates, Israel Democracy Institute report raises alarm over Haredi men’s limited progress integrating into workforce
By Mati Wagner
Israeli soldiers and ultra-Orthodox Jews at the Western Wall, Judaism's holiest prayer site in the Old City of Jerusalem, July 10, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 8, 2025, 2:24 pm
Daily Briefing Jan. 8: Day 460 – IDF needs Haredi soldiers, but can it accommodate them?
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian speaks about new efforts and challenges the army faces even as the attorney general calls for drastically ramping up number of ultra-Orthodox recruits
By Amanda Borschel-Dan and Emanuel Fabian
United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus leads a special committee meeting at the Knesset in Jerusalem on December 3, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
December 30, 2024, 11:43 pm
Haredi MK says he opposes IDF service because Orthodox soldiers ‘leave religion’ in the army
UTJ’s Pindrus sparks furor with response when asked how the ultra-Orthodox can refuse to share the burden, given the high death toll among religious Zionist soldiers
By Sam Sokol
Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf attends the plenary session of the opening day of the winter session at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on October 28, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 31, 2024, 11:30 am
In his blusterous fight for Haredi draft exemptions, Goldknopf is increasingly isolated
UTJ leader is confident his ultimatums will shield his constituents from army service, even as he antagonizes more pragmatic colleagues and casualty-weary national-religious leaders
By Shalom Yerushalmi
Former prime minister Naftali Bennett delivers a video statement on Iran, October 8, 2024. (Screenshot, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
October 19, 2024, 2:47 pm
Former PM Naftali Bennett fumes over ‘sell out’ ultra-Orthodox draft exemption bill
‘Why does the nation of lions have such cowardly leadership?’ he asks, accusing government ministers of promoting ‘selfish sectarianism’ and straining burden on reserve soldiers
By ToI Staff
Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara addresses the Israel Bar Association's annual conference in Eilat, May 27, 2024. (Courtesy: Israel Bar Association)
October 16, 2024, 4:08 pm
State funding for daycares of draft-dodging yeshiva students ‘illegal’ — AG
Baharav-Miara submits High Court petition after ultra-Orthodox appeal for delay; Smotrich slams Haredi leaders for dismissing importance of IDF service; UTJ threatens to bolt coalition
By Jeremy Sharon, Sam Sokol and ToI Staff
Destroyed houses from the October 7, 2023, Hamas attack on southern Israel, in Kibbutz Kfar Aza, September 19, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
September 23, 2024, 8:58 pm
UTJ organ Hamodia publishes op-ed blaming southern kibbutz residents for October 7
Lawmakers blast article in which former candidate for Haredi party claimed left-leaning southerners brought disaster on themselves, need forgiveness for blaming government
By ToI Staff
A detail from 'The Holy Spirit,' by Sara Erenthal, which will be among the artworks on display at 'After Orthodoxy: Cultural Creativity and the Break with Tradition.' (Courtesy Sara Erenthal)
September 15, 2024, 12:44 am
A NYC conference celebrates the cultural creativity of formerly Orthodox Jews
Organizers of Sunday and Monday’s symposium at YIVO aim to emphasize what those who exited haredi communities have accomplished, not the ‘sensational story’ of how they left
By Andrew Silow-Carroll
Protesters clash with police outside an army recruitment conference for young ultra-Orthodox Jews in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 7, 2024, 7:27 pm
IDF claims violent enlistment protests scaring off ultra-Orthodox draftees
Only 48 out of 900 Haredim to receive call-up orders have shown up at induction center as anti-draft rioters aim to deter would-be soldiers
By Sam Sokol
Israel's Ashkenazi former chief rabbi David Lau, right, and Israel's Sephardi former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef attend an event at a ceremony in Jerusalem, June 30, 2023. (The Chief Rabbinate of Israel)
July 5, 2024, 9:17 pm
A fight over women’s representation leaves Israel’s Jews without chief rabbis
The Justice Ministry’s demand that the rabbinate consider women for a position traditionally reserved for rabbis is key to the delay in succession for the first time in over a century
By Canaan Lidor
The grave of Yisrael Yudkin who was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip, pictured in Jerusalem on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
July 3, 2024, 5:22 am
Religious phrases okayed on army headstones, including appeal for divine vengeance
Policy change announced by defense minister follows outrage over denial of request by slain Haredi soldier’s family to add ‘God will avenge his blood’ to his epitaph
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Moshe Maya leaves the venue of a meeting of the Shas Torah Sages Council in Jerusalem on February 20, 2019. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 26, 2024, 5:01 pm
Senior Shas rabbi spurns draft compromise, says even those not studying must not enlist
Moshe Maya’s maximalist position not shared even by politicians of his own movement; some Haredim fear army service will endanger devotion of young men exposed to outside culture
By Canaan Lidor
The grave of Yisrael Yudkin who was killed in battle in the Gaza Strip, pictured in Jerusalem on June 23, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/FLASH90)
June 25, 2024, 3:10 am
Defense Ministry pressed to honor headstone preference for Haredi fallen soldier
Yisrael Yudkin’s parents want acronym for ‘May God avenge his blood’ added to epitaph at Jerusalem military cemetery; rabbis urge Gallant, IDF chief to grant family’s request
By Canaan Lidor
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