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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 586

ultra-Orthodox Jews

New York Gov. Kathy Hochul speaks at a news conference, Feb. 20, 2025, in New York. (AP Photo/Julia Demaree Nikhinson, File)
May 10, 2025, 4:39 pm
NY state budget weakens oversight of yeshivas in blow to secular education advocates
Deadline to comply with state education standards delayed to 2032-33; state to check how many students took unstandardized exams, but not how well they did
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Israeli jeep drivers make their way down a rocky dirt road in the Negev desert, southern Israel, on April 14, 2017. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 20, 2025, 5:33 pm
Jerusalem municipality uses taxpayer money to fund jeep tours for Haredi families
Hundreds of thousands of shekels earmarked for religious education spent on off-road wilderness tours for ultra-Orthodox Jerusalemites, sparking allegations of corruption in city government
By ToI Staff
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (center) with coalition lawmakers as the 2025 state budget law is passed by the Knesset, March 25, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 25, 2025, 5:26 pm
In major success for government, Knesset approves 2025 budget, staving off elections
Coalition lawmakers escorted into Knesset under guard as anti-government protesters block entrance. Opposition MKs chant ‘shame’, families of hostages protest from gallery, as law passes final reading
By Sam Sokol
Yesh Atid party chair Yair Lapid leads a faction meeting at the Knesset, on March 24, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 24, 2025, 9:42 pm
‘Billions are being stolen’: Opposition slams 2025 state budget ahead of final vote
MKs launch 15-hour extended debate of controversial NIS 756 billion ($203.5 billion) wartime budget, which Lapid pans as the ‘greatest robbery in the history of the country’
By Sam Sokol
Women pushing strollers walk past the Yeshiva Kehilath Yakov School in the South Williamsburg neighborhood, April 9, 2019 in the Brooklyn borough of New York City. (Drew Angerer / Getty Images North America / Getty Images via AFP)
March 21, 2025, 8:44 am
Three more NYC yeshivas to lose funding as secular education standards take effect
Parents at ultra-Orthodox schools in Brooklyn told to look elsewhere for their kids’ education, ahead of New York’s June 30 deadline for secular education mandate
By Asaf Elia-Shalev
Posters for United Torah Judaism candidate Shmuel Greenberg defaced ahead of the 2024 municipal election in Beit Shemesh. (Sam Sokol)
March 20, 2025, 5:45 pm
PM, President Herzog, Haredi ministers condemn mob attack on Beit Shemesh mayor
‘We must denounce the extremists and the violent among us,’ says United Torah Judaism chairman Goldknopf in wake of assault on Degel Hatorah’s Shmuel Greenberg
By Sam Sokol
Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ateret Shlomo yeshiva chain dance and sing at the wedding of the seminary chief's son, in Mishor Adumim in the West Bank, March 11, 2025. (Screenshot: X; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 13, 2025, 10:15 am
Outrage as students at state-funded Haredi yeshiva sing anti-Zionist, anti-enlistment anthem
‘We don’t believe in the government of infidels and we won’t show up at their [army] recruitment offices,’ sing thousands of Ateret Shlomo young men at mass wedding
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox children in their classroom in Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood, September 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 5, 2025, 3:35 pm
Cabinet approves over NIS 1 billion in coalition funds for Haredim, of a total NIS 5b
Items approved include $350 million for yeshivas, $2.2 million for groups that arrange IDF exemptions for Haredi students, $6.9 million for Jewish National Identity Authority
By Sam Sokol
Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a plenum session on the so-called Rabbis Bill in the Knesset, January 15, 2025. (Goldberg/Flash90)
January 16, 2025, 5:22 pm
After yearlong strife, Knesset passes Shas’s controversial ‘Rabbis Law’
New law on funding salaries of religious officials ‘promotes the politicization of the rabbinate,’ warns Rabbi David Stav of the liberal Tzohar rabbinic group
By Sam Sokol
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
UTJ MK Moshe Gafni (left), chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, presides over a committee meeting on education funding on December 31, 2024. (Noam Moskowitz/Knesset Spokesman)
January 2, 2025, 11:45 pm
Opposition furious at 11th-hour transfer of hundreds of millions to Haredi education
‘We didn’t have time to read, understand, study the material,’ complains MK Beliak, day after Finance Committee pushed through extra budgets. Opposition weighs High Court petition
By Sam Sokol
Illustrative: Hasidic Jews in a synagogue in Bnei Brak, March 24, 2024. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 26, 2024, 7:03 pm
Report: Ben Gvir tried to prevent demolition of illegally constructed Haredi synagogues
Paper cites chief of Real Estate Enforcement Division as telling national security minister there could be ‘a second Meron disaster in Bnei Brak’
By Sam Sokol
Labor Minister Yoav Ben-Tzur (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
November 20, 2024, 9:27 pm
Labor minister agrees to court-proposed compromise on Haredi daycare subsidies
Yoav Ben-Tzur will stop blocking funds for all, while ultra-Orthodox families where the father has failed to enlist to the IDF will get another six months of benefits
By Jeremy Sharon
Ultra-Orthodox protesters hold up a sign reading 'We will die rather than enlist,' while blocking a road during a protest against the military draft, in Bnei Brak, November 17, 2024. (Erik Marmor/ Flash90)
November 17, 2024, 8:13 pm
First 1,000 of 7,000 new Haredi enlistment orders sent out, sparking protests
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men block Route 4 near Bnei Brak, as extremist faction’s rabbi says sending Haredim to IDF ‘destroys the Torah, destroys Judaism and destroys everything’
By Emanuel Fabian and ToI Staff
Religious Services Minister Michael Malkieli attends a plenum session on the so-called Rabbis Bill in the Knesset, November 12, 2024. (Goldberg/Flash90)
November 12, 2024, 6:58 pm
Inside the year-long struggle to pass Shas’s controversial ‘Rabbis Bill’
Critics say legislation that would allow the religious services minister to allocate additional funds to religious councils is ‘essentially a jobs bill with a blank check’
By Sam Sokol
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