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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 570

Israel Hofshit - Be Free Israel

Ultra-Orthodox Jews outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 9, 2025, 3:47 pm
AG, police silent in face of growing ecosystem of Haredi evasion organizations
‘We regret that law enforcement agencies are de facto condoning criminality on such an important issue,’ says Movement for Quality Government; offense punishable by 15 years in jail
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox students study at the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 5, 2025, 2:26 pm
‘Do not cooperate’: Nonprofit linked to top Haredi rabbis encourages draft dodging
Haredim are pushing for coalition funds for Vaad HaYeshivot, which tells yeshiva students to ignore the law in favor of ‘the instructions of the sages’
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Yuli Edelstein, left, chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, February 18, 2025. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesman's Office)
February 18, 2025, 9:33 pm
Edelstein: Haredi enlistment bill will include individual sanctions on draft dodgers
‘The effectiveness of the sanctions are what will make this law real or not,’ deputy AG tells key Knesset committee deliberating law
By Sam Sokol
Signage at Rambam Medical Center in Haifa is put up after the hametz law is passed by the Knesset on March 28, 2023. (Courtesy of Rambam Medical Center)
April 9, 2023, 6:16 pm
Health Ministry says ‘hametz law’ doesn’t let hospitals search or confiscate food
Responding to petition filed after pregnant woman’s cookies were taken by guard, ministry tells High Court new law only allows hospital staff to inform guests of rules at gates
By ToI Staff and Renee Ghert-Zand
A security guard is seen at Hadassah Mount Scopus Hospital, as medical teams go on 24-hour strike in protest of recent attacks on hospital medical staff, May 19, 2022. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
April 4, 2023, 3:03 pm
High Court petitioned on hametz law after hospital seizes pregnant woman’s cookies
Organization promoting religious freedom says legislation allowing hospitals to prevent entry of leavened goods during Passover shouldn’t supersede laws protecting patients’ rights
By ToI Staff and Renee Ghert-Zand
Ultra-Orthodox students in Jerusalem's Neve Yaakov neighborhood on August 9, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 1, 2023, 6:53 am
Battle over municipal funding for Haredi schools foreshadows local election showdown
Prominent ultra-Orthodox MK’s threat to mayors could backfire, as factions mobilize to address what some see as a threat to the secular way of life
By Tal Schneider
Participants in Mitzpe Ramon's first LGBT pride march, July 2, 2021 (Flash90)
June 29, 2022, 6:56 pm
Police back down from plans to reroute Mitzpe Ramon pride parade to avoid yeshiva
High Court Justice Daphne Barak Erez tells police to ‘do their homework’ before making similar calls; activist groups celebrate win ahead of Friday’s LGBT parade
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers at a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on November 13, 2019. (Sara Klatt/Flash90)
May 27, 2022, 3:54 pm
Female IDF officer blocked from leading swearing-in ceremony at Western Wall
Military says officers ‘made error in judgment’ by agreeing to prevent soldier from heading event; pluralism groups accuse body that administers site of ‘working to silence women’
By Sara Serfaty
Israelis enjoy the Tel Aviv beach on Election Day, September 17, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
December 23, 2019, 10:37 am
Tel Aviv leads ranking of Israel’s ‘freest’ cities, Bnei Brak is last
Report by religious pluralism group criticizes Haredi city for failing to offer secular funerals or restrict separate-gender events; Ramat Gan wins most-improved
By ToI Staff
Demonstrators protest Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's decision to cancel all infrastructure work planned by Israel Railways on Shabbat on outside the Tel Aviv's Savidor train station on September 3, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 4, 2016, 9:31 am
Hundreds protest Netanyahu decision to halt Shabbat train work
Opposition MKs join angry Tel Aviv and Haifa residents demonstrating against PM for capitulating to ultra-Orthodox pressure
By ToI Staff
An ultra-Orthodox man attends the 'Body Worlds' exhibit in Haifa, August 17, 2009. (photo credit: Matanya Tausig/Flash90)
August 31, 2014, 10:56 pm
Bennett seeks to block ‘Bodies’ exhibition
Senior minister says display, which features corpses, violates Israel’s character and respect for the dead
By Lazar Berman
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