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United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush attends a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, May 20, 2026. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 17, 2026, 6:46 am
UTJ lawmaker Porush warns Haredim may go after AG ‘with sticks and stones’
Ultra-Orthodox MK warns his faction could soon ‘completely disassociate ourselves from cooperation with other government authorities that are taking part in the persecution against us’
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally against the detention of yeshiva students who evaded conscription outside the IDF's Beit Lid military prison, August 14, 2025. (Tal Gal/Flash90)
May 24, 2026, 3:53 pm
Haredi bill aims to reduce draft dodgers’ sentences if religious needs ‘violated’
UTJ’s Porush claims there is ongoing ‘violation of basic religious rights’ of Haredi evaders in military prison, even though IDF provides for the religious needs of soldiers
By Sam Sokol
Portrait of then-mayor of Jerusalem Uri Lupolianski. July 30, 2008. (Daniel Dreifuss / Flash 90)
January 8, 2026, 9:28 am
Uri Lupolianski, only ultra-Orthodox mayor of Jerusalem, dies at 74
Lupolianski, who founded the Yad Sarah medical equipment charity and was convicted in Holyland affair, suffered a recent deterioration in health
By ToI Staff
Orthodox Jews pray at the gravestone of Rabbi Nachman, the great grandson of the founder of Hasidic movement, to mark the Jewish new year in the town of Uman, Ukraine, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2024. (AP Photo/Efrem Lukatsky)
August 26, 2025, 1:56 am
Haredi lawmakers pressing PM to allow draft dodgers to fly abroad for High Holidays
Deri aims to lift travel ban on draft evaders so they can make annual Ukraine pilgrimage; Goldknopf wants them to be able to visit NY, calling trips a ‘sublime spiritual experience’
By Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff
MK Meir Porush sits in a protest tent outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem, August 12, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
August 14, 2025, 6:31 pm
Senior Haredi MK: The government ‘started a war with us, and we have to defend ourselves’
Ultra-Orthodox lawmaker Meir Porush rules out violence in his community’s struggle against military service, insists he’ll accept nothing less than exemptions for all yeshiva students
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Boaz Bismuth chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, August 12, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 12, 2025, 7:57 pm
After replacing head of key defense panel, coalition launches new push for Haredi draft bill
Government source expresses optimism regarding possibility of compromise with ultra-Orthodox parties. MK Porush: ‘Anyone who sits and studies should get a deferment from the army’
By Sam Sokol
MK Meir Porush sits in front of a banner reading "Office of MK Meir Porush" as he demonstrates outside the Justice Ministry in Jerusalem on August 7, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 10, 2025, 7:39 pm
Haredi MK Porush warns conscription of yeshiva students could lead to ‘civil war’
Former cabinet minister sets up tent outside Justice Ministry to protest arrests of draft evaders. Liberman calls on ultra-Orthodox to ‘join the effort to defeat the enemy’
By Sam Sokol
A student stands outside of the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, August 6, 2025. (Sam Sokol/Times of Israel)
August 8, 2025, 7:04 am
Students at flagship Jerusalem yeshiva dismiss danger of arrest as IDF cracks down
‘Every day in [my prayers] I say that I am ready to die for the sanctification of God’s name,’ says student at Mir Yeshiva, insisting that he would rather go to jail than enlist
By Sam Sokol
Police use a water canon to disperse ultra-Orthodox demonstrators as they protest military enlistment orders and the arrest of yeshiva students who avoided the orders, during a rally in Jerusalem on August 7, 2025. (Menahem KAHANA / AFP)
August 8, 2025, 12:19 am
Haredi protesters clash with cops in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak as leaders vow war against draft
Hours of bitter demonstrations by hardline faction, following arrest of several yeshiva students, draw rare support from prominent figures in major ultra-Orthodox parties
By Charlie Summers, Sam Sokol, Rossella Tercatin and ToI Staff
The front page of Yated Neeman on August 7, 2025, with a headline reading "War." (Screen capture)
August 7, 2025, 2:54 pm
Haredi newspapers declare ‘war’ over IDF enlistment efforts, prompting outrage
‘There is a war, but it’s in a different place, and people are actually being killed in it,’ Yair Lapid responds; MK Zvi Sukkot: Editor pouring ‘gasoline on bonfire of hatred’
By Sam Sokol
Members of the United Torah Judaism party's Degel Hatorah faction write letters of resignation in Knesset Finance Committee chairman Moshe Gafni's office, July 14, 2025. (Courtesy)
July 15, 2025, 2:37 am
United Torah Judaism quits gov’t to protest new proposal on army enlistment exemptions
Haredi party’s Degel Hatorah faction claims coalition ‘repeatedly violated commitments to care for status of yeshiva students’; Edelstein said refusing further concessions on bill
By Sam Sokol
Likud MK Yuli Edelstein chairs a meeting of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, May 8, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 10, 2025, 8:47 pm
Ultra-Orthodox demand immediate progress on exemption from IDF service as vote postponed
Goldknopf calls on Netanyahu to honor his agreements and ‘complete the settlement of the status of Torah students in the Land of Israel’
By Sam Sokol
The white dome of the restored Tiferet Yisrael Synagogue in the Old City of Jerusalem, as seen on June 3, 2025. (Rossella Tercatin/Times of Israel)
June 27, 2025, 10:19 am
Government plan for restored synagogue in Jerusalem’s Old City fuels fear of Haredi takeover
Ultra-Orthodox, Religious Zionist factions clash over management of rebuilt Tiferet Yisrael; critics fear site will be closed to public, exclude prayers for IDF and state
By Rossella Tercatin
United Torah Judaism chairman Yitzchak Goldknopf attends a faction meeting in the Knesset, May 19 , 2025. (Oren Ben Hakoon/Flash90)
June 12, 2025, 5:21 pm
UTJ’s Goldknopf resigns from cabinet after Knesset fails to pass dissolution bill
Chairman of ultra-Orthodox party says enlistment compromise fails to live up to PM’s promises, says he can ‘no longer take part as a member of this government’
By Sam Sokol
US Ambassador to Israel Mike Huckabee meets with Jerusalem Affairs Minister Meir Porush on June 5, 2025. (Courtesy)
June 10, 2025, 4:26 am
Huckabee said meeting with Haredi MKs in bid to prevent coalition’s fall; he denies it
Israeli TV says US ambassador told ultra-Orthodox figures that ‘gov’t stability is important for addressing the Iran issue,’ said elections would make it more difficult to back Israel
By ToI Staff
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