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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 347

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Ultra-orthodox jewish children play in the Haredi neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, June 26, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
August 28, 2024, 12:57 am
Daycare subsidies for children of Haredi yeshiva students to be halted from November
Deputy AG says lack of legal framework to exempt ultra-Orthodox students from IDF service makes the financial aid illegal; cut in funding expected to have large impact on community
By Jeremy Sharon
A Haredi draftee is received by a soldier at the Tel Hashomer base in central Israel, August 6, 2024. (Israel Defense Forces)
August 22, 2024, 2:32 am
IDF: Only some 70 Haredi men have reported to induction centers since High Court ruling
Landmark decision in June declared there is no legal basis to excuse ultra-Orthodox from compulsory service, but less than three percent of 3,000 drafted have so far cooperated
By Emanuel Fabian
Illustrative: The hesder yeshiva in the Itamar settlement in the West Bank, May 2, 2021. (Sraya Diamant/Flash90)
August 19, 2024, 5:50 pm
Report: Gallant approved 7 new ‘hesder’ yeshivas for ultra-Orthodox soldiers
Decision to launch more Haredi establishments that combine military service with Torah studies comes amid bitter dispute over High Court mandating yeshiva students’ enlistment
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men near a sign reading 'army recruitment office' during a protest against the drafting of Haredim to the military, in Jerusalem, May 1, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
July 9, 2024, 8:21 pm
Defense minister says IDF will start drafting ultra-Orthodox men next month
Move comes after last month’s landmark High Court of Justice ruling that there is no legal basis to not conscript Haredi men
By Emanuel Fabian
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox -- photographed here through a metal fence -- attend a rally against the conscription of Haredi yeshiva students to the military, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on June 30, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 1, 2024, 1:17 am
Haredi minister’s car attacked as violence erupts at anti-draft protest in Jerusalem
5 arrested during clashes with police, officer hospitalized; stones hurled at vehicles carrying United Torah Judaism party head Yitzhak Goldknopf and his predecessor Yaakov Litzman
By ToI Staff
Police officers disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews blocking a highway during a protest against army recruitment in Bnei Brak, Israel, Thursday, June 27, 2024. (AP/Oded Balilty)
June 27, 2024, 8:14 pm
Ultra-Orthodox block main road for hours in draft protest; 32 arrested
Haredi demonstrators rail against High Court order to draft yeshiva students, call police ‘Nazis’ and vow to die before enlisting
By ToI Staff
A sign protesting against the drafting of ultra-Orthodox Jews to the Israeli army, in Jerusalem, June 2, 2024. Sign reads 'Drafting Haredim to the army -- forced transgression of religion.' (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
June 26, 2024, 12:04 pm
‘A sword over the study hall’: Ultra-Orthodox media rages at court ruling on draft
Vowing defiance of requirement for IDF service by Haredim, newspapers say ‘war’ declared on community, and people who ‘hate religion’ are trying to wipe out Orthodoxy from Israel
By ToI Staff
Haredi protesters are seen blocking Route 4 in a demonstration against the conscription of yeshiva students, in this screenshot from a video taken June 20, 2024. (Screenshot via X, Shilo Fried, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
June 20, 2024, 11:49 pm
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox block highway in protest against IDF enlistment
Protesters, affiliated with extremist Jerusalem Faction group, tie up traffic near Bnei Brak outside Tel Aviv day after Haredi parties threaten government over military draft bill
By ToI Staff and Sam Sokol
Police push back ultra-Orthodox men who tried to enter the Tomb of Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai on the Jewish holiday of Lag B'Omer, at Mount Meron, May 26, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
May 27, 2024, 2:22 am
Police clash with ultra-Orthodox pilgrims at closed-off holy site in Mount Meron
Video shared by police shows worshipers throwing chairs and crates at cops; Border Police officer removed from duty after being filmed throwing elderly man to the ground
By ToI Staff
Haredi men who decided to join the IDF following the October 7 onslaught by Hamas arrive at recruiting offices in Tel Hashomer, near Tel Aviv, October 23, 2023 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
May 22, 2024, 6:02 am
Gallant given report on ‘practical, applicable’ ways to draft Haredi men into IDF
Document spearheaded by ex-Air Force chief presents list of recommendations for military to consider implementing by end of the year, as ongoing war highlights need for more troops
By Emanuel Fabian
Ultra-Orthodox men arrive at the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, in central Israel, March 28, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 18, 2024, 11:36 am
Government says it isn’t required to draft Haredi men, nor end funding to yeshivas
Position paper comes in response to High Court order to cease subsidizing yeshivas whose students don’t serve in the army
By ToI Staff
Shas party member Michael Malkieli at the Knesset in Jerusalem, May 20, 2019. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
April 17, 2024, 7:35 pm
New regulations would expand Haredi control over municipal rabbis, sideline women
After Knesset bill nixed, Religious Services Ministry pushes similar changes that critics say would ’emasculate local authorities and completely centralize role of municipal rabbi’
By Sam Sokol
The padlocked gate of a closed school in the northern city of Tzfat, on April 14, 2024. (David Cohen/Flash90)
April 14, 2024, 5:20 pm
Formal, informal education shut across Israel for two days in light of Iran attack
Education Ministry fields ‘a lot of complaints’ from parents of children with special needs over lack of support; some ultra-Orthodox schools open in defiance of procedures
By Gavriel Fiske
Ultra-Orthodox students at the Ponovitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 1, 2024, 7:36 pm
The High Court’s yeshiva funding ruling goes into effect today. What does it entail?
Starting this week, hundreds of yeshivas will see their budgets slashed, prompting leading rabbis to look abroad to raise the funds needed to continue operating
By Sam Sokol
File: Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, head of the Slabodka Yeshiva, seen in Bnei Brak, on February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 31, 2024, 6:28 pm
Top Haredi rabbi: Push to draft us into army is fueled by hatred of Torah life
Moshe Hillel Hirsch tells students some people simply don’t realize Torah study is saving the country, says community must make a stand that will likely include ‘self-sacrifice’
By ToI Staff
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