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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 537

religious Zionism

Illustrative: Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers the keynote address on August 29, 2022, to mark the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress at the historic Stadtcasino in Basel, where Theodor Herzl convened the first congress which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
From far left to Haredi right, Jews question ethics of voting in World Zionist Congress
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
As Jewish voters across the globe help decide Israel’s future, diametrically opposed groups on the fringes are united in taking issue with the terms of participation
Religious Zionist Israelis growing increasingly critical of Haredim, new survey shows
By Rossella Tercatin
Poll showing religious teens are sexually active sparks rethink of when to have the talk
By Rossella Tercatin
Religious women protest for the recruitment of ultra-Orthodox Jews into the IDF, at the entrance to Jerusalem, November 11, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/ Flash90)
March 26, 2025, 2:55 am
Religious Zionist Israelis growing increasingly critical of Haredim, new survey shows
Poll says that just over half of religious Zionists recognize ultra-Orthodox contributions to society, down since last year, as more respondents want to see ‘equal burden-bearing’
By Rossella Tercatin
Illustrative: Israeli President Isaac Herzog delivers the keynote address on August 29, 2022, to mark the 125th anniversary of the First Zionist Congress at the historic Stadtcasino in Basel, where Theodor Herzl convened the first congress which paved the way for the creation of the State of Israel. (Fabrice COFFRINI / AFP)
March 25, 2025, 4:36 pm
From far left to Haredi right, Jews question ethics of voting in World Zionist Congress
As Jewish voters across the globe help decide Israel’s future, diametrically opposed groups on the fringes are united in taking issue with the terms of participation
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Researcher Maor Kaplan. (Jonathan Bloom)
March 24, 2025, 10:50 am
Poll showing religious teens are sexually active sparks rethink of when to have the talk
High numbers of students in religious Zionist schools, where sex education is often an afterthought, are having sex with their peers, including those in gender-segregated settings
By Rossella Tercatin
Jonathan Polin and Rachel Goldberg-Poliin, parents of killed US-Israeli hostage Hersh Goldberg-Polin sit with his sisters Orly and Leebie during his funeral in Jerusalem on September 2, 2024, (GIL COHEN-MAGEN / POOL / AFP)
January 29, 2025, 10:32 am
Hersh Goldberg-Polin’s high school reflects after losing 10 graduates in the Gaza war
Himmelfarb in Jerusalem is among the most prominent academies in Israel for religious Zionists, a demographic that has suffered great losses since Oct. 7 – yet spirits remain high
By Deborah Danan
Protesters clash with police during an anti-hostage deal protest in Jerusalem, January 16, 2025. (Flash90)
January 17, 2025, 3:12 am
Right-wingers rally in Jerusalem against ‘Trump deal,’ urge government to oppose it
Israel not just ‘another star on the American flag,’ says organizer of protest; police arrest three demonstrators for damaging vehicles, setting fires on the road
By Charlie Summers
Laly Derai in an undated photo. (Courtesy)
January 13, 2025, 4:45 pm
The mother of a fallen IDF soldier continues his crusade for universal IDF enlistment
Ahead of a crucial Tuesday Knesset meeting, Laly Derai is advocating for an end to military exemptions for the Haredi community after son Saadia Derai was killed in action in Gaza
By Deborah Danan
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
Illustrative: Israeli soldiers pray next to their artillery units near the Israeli border with Lebanon, September 29, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
November 1, 2024, 5:43 am
As religious Zionist IDF casualties rise, so does resentment of Haredi exemption bill
Rift between two religiously observant communities deepens as the Knesset debates a law on ultra-Orthodox military enlistment, or lack thereof, amid the ongoing multifront war
By Mati Wagner
Rabbi Kalman Ber attends a vote for the new Chief Ashkenazi rabbi, at the Chief Rabbinate headquarters in Jerusalem, October 31, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
October 31, 2024, 8:02 pm
Ultra-Orthodox-backed Kalman Ber chosen as Ashkenazi chief rabbi in runoff
Top Netanya cleric beats out Rabbi Micha Halevi, who drew anger from religious Zionists by reneging on promise to stay out of race, after initial balloting ended in tie
By Mati Wagner and ToI Staff
Committee members at the elections for Israel's new chief rabbis in Jerusalem, September 29, 2024. (Arie Leib Abrams/Flash90)
October 30, 2024, 4:10 pm
Divisive, long-delayed election for chief rabbi to proceed Thursday
Over a year late, the vote for Israel’s top Ashkenazi authority seems to be on track amid political strife and broken commitments
By Mati Wagner
Author Haim Be'er at his home in Ramat Gan, October 6, 2024. (Tamar Mor Sela)
October 20, 2024, 7:05 am
Haim Be’er believes, in perfect faith, that change is coming for Israel, but it may tarry
Despite eulogizing Zionism, the 79-year-old literary icon urges public to transcend social divides between right and left, religious and secular, and acknowledge limitations of power
By Tamar Mor Sela
Families of Israelis held kidnapped by Hamas terrorists in Gaza and activists protest for their release outside the Defense Ministry headquarters in Tel Aviv, October 7, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
October 8, 2024, 3:36 pm
In apparent U-turn, several leading religious Zionist rabbis call for hostage deal
Signatories include close advisers to Smotrich; letter urges government to reach ‘responsible’ agreement to free captives as ‘Jewish, moral and national duty of the first order’
By ToI Staff
Adam Hajaj speaks during a rally for hostages in Gaza in Tel Aviv on August 10, 2024. (Hostages and Missing Families Forum)
August 12, 2024, 3:54 pm
October 7 trauma reconnects Israelis with a 2,000-year-old Jewish day of mourning
Thousands of synagogues prepare to feature lamentations about the Hamas atrocities, on Tisha B’Av, a fast day that commemorates historical – and now contemporary – tragedies
By Canaan Lidor
Rabbi Shmuel Eliyahu attends a Lag B'Omer celebration in Safed, on May 26, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
July 22, 2024, 8:05 pm
Top religious Zionist rabbis call for scrapping ‘dangerous’ hostage deal
Clerics with sway over coalition’s hard-line flank argue risk posed by possible agreement trumps imperative to free captives; senior UTJ lawmaker Gafni takes opposite position
By ToI Staff
Settlement activists at a conference in Jerusalem to promote the construction of Jewish settlements in Gaza go up on stage in dedicated groups that seek to establish six new settlements in the coastal enclave, January 28, 2024. (Courtesy the Nachala Settlement Movement)
January 30, 2024, 4:18 pm
At packed Jerusalem conference, religious far-right dreams big of resettling Gaza
At the return to Gush Katif extravaganza, a determined community makes plans to ‘right the injustice’ of the 2005 Disengagement – regardless of Israel’s troubled global standing
By Jeremy Sharon
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