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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 530

Netzah Yehuda

Police drag away ultra-Orthodox protesters who sat on the road during a demonstration against Haredi enlistment, outside a conference honoring ultra-Orthodox soldiers in Jerusalem, January 28, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
January 28, 2025, 7:40 pm
Haredi extremists block Jerusalem road outside event honoring ultra-Orthodox troops
Hardliners reportedly try breaking in, hurl abuse at attendees, slam ‘murderer of souls’; one said arrested for attacking cop at separate protest
By ToI Staff
A member of the Haredi community near a protest against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside an IDF recruitment center in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
November 24, 2024, 6:19 pm
Haredim in favor of IDF service insist only carrots, not sticks, will draw more recruits
As the military issues the first of 7,000 new conscription notices, communal leaders say soldiers coerced into service are liabilities: ‘They would be destroyed in Lebanon or Gaza’
By Mati Wagner
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers operate in the Gaza Strip, in photos released on October 10, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
October 10, 2024, 10:47 pm
New top Sephardic rabbi backs rulings that soldiers in combat must eat on Yom Kippur
Seeking to allay concerns of ultra-Orthodox troops in Gaza, David Yosef notes existing protocols barring them from fasting, says when in doubt they should turn to IDF rabbis
By Mati Wagner
Troops of the Kfir Brigade's Netzah Yehuda Battalion operate in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, in a handout image published March 8, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 9, 2024, 9:31 pm
US will not impose sanctions on IDF unit for alleged rights violations — report
According to Axios, Blinken informed Gallant of the decision regarding the Netzah Yehuda battalion
By Reuters and ToI Staff
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
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
Large images of hostages Naama Levy and Liri Albag are held above the crowd as protesters in Tel Aviv call for a hostage deal, April 11, 2024. (Danor Aharon/ Pro-Democracy Protest Movement)
May 23, 2024, 1:24 pm
Daily Briefing May 23: Day 230 – Harrowing video spotlights female soldiers held by Hamas
Military reporter Emanuel Fabian updates us on the newly released Oct. 7 footage that shows the capture of five women at Nahal Oz, the Rafah operation and Haredi-draft report
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Soldiers from the IDF's Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
May 18, 2024, 2:24 am
Misfits or misunderstood? Sanctions threat shines light on IDF’s Haredi fighting unit
Claims of ideological vigilantism and cruelty invite US moves against Netzah Yehuda, which has integrated thousands from religious world into mainstream society
By Canaan Lidor
Family and friends of Captain Roy Beit Yaakov attend his funeral at the Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem on May 16, 2024. (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 17, 2024, 1:20 am
Diverse backgrounds give way to shared fate as Gaza friendly-fire victims eulogized
Five soldiers killed by mistaken tank fire in Gaza came from Tel Aviv, Tiberias; two West Bank settlements and Buenos Aires, to serve in special religious unit
By Canaan Lidor
Columbia University students Eden Yadegar and Elisha H. Baker lead songs in support of Israel on October 12, 2023, at the Columbia University campus in New York. (courtesy)
May 3, 2024, 9:23 am
What Matters Now to two Jewish student leaders at Columbia: ‘Intifada’ on campus
Eden Yadegar, president of Students Supporting Israel, and Elisha H. Baker, a Columbia Political Review editor, describe the antisemitism that led to this week’s ‘hostile takeover’
By ToI Staff
Troops from the ultra-Orthodox Netzah Yehuda Battalion operate in northern Gaza's Beit Hanoun, in a handout image published April 4, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 29, 2024, 11:58 pm
US says 5 IDF units violated human rights: 4 have remediated, one being reviewed
Cases predate Gaza war; Washington says it received new info from Israel on 5th unit — thought to be Netzah Yehuda Battalion — after Jerusalem last week feared imminent sanctions
By Reuters, ToI Staff and Lazar Berman
Israeli soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israel-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/ Flash90)
April 26, 2024, 5:00 pm
US holding off on penalties for IDF’s Netzah Yehuda unit over West Bank rights abuses
Several Israeli officials spoke this week with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken to try to convince the US to halt planned actions against battalion
By AP and ToI Staff
Israeli soldiers from the Netzah Yehuda Battalion patrol near the Israeli-Gaza border, October 20, 2023. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 26, 2024, 9:06 am
What Matters Now to Haviv Rettig Gur: Is it wise for US to blacklist IDF unit?
ToI’s senior analyst discusses the genesis of Netzah Yehuda, an IDF ‘social work project’ for disenfranchised religious men that is accused of human rights abuses in the West Bank
By Amanda Borschel-Dan
Chairs for the Bibas family, hostages held in Gaza, are seen at a Passover seder table set, Thursday, April 11, 2024, at the communal dining hall at Kibbutz Nir Oz in southern Israel, where a quarter of all residents were killed or captured by Hamas on Oct. 7, 2023. (AP Photo/Maya Alleruzzo, File)
April 23, 2024, 1:05 am
Blinken: Both Hamas onslaught, ensuing Israeli offensive raise human rights concerns
Top US diplomat denies ‘double standard’ in assessing allegations against Israel, rejects comparisons between Israeli war against terror group and Russian invasion of Ukraine
By Jacob Magid
File - War cabinet minister Benny Gantz, right, meets with US Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Tel Aviv, March 22, 2024. (Courtesy)
April 22, 2024, 2:30 pm
Gantz, Gallant press Blinken not to sanction IDF unit as US stays mum
Israeli ministers say move undermines Israel’s legitimacy, has no justification; statements from Washington on their calls make no mention of subject
By ToI Staff and Emanuel Fabian
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