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Illustrative: Israeli security forces clash with hilltop youth as they evacuate and demolish an illegal outpost built near the Jewish settlement of Metzad, east of the Palestinian city of Sa'ir in the southern West Bank on November 17, 2025. (Menahem Kahana/AFP)
June 15, 2026, 3:24 pm
Government to provide 50-shekel daily stipends for hundreds of hilltop youth – report
NIS 5.5 million ($1.9m) said designated for settler minors, amid effort ostensibly aimed at addressing violent daily attacks against Palestinians by residents of West Bank outposts
By ToI Staff
Lawmakers in the Knesset plenum, September 10, 2025. (Dani Shem-Tov/ Office of the Knesset Spokesperson)
September 11, 2025, 3:38 am
Knesset advances bill to increase defense budget, including for Gaza humanitarian aid
Measure aims to add NIS 31 billion ($9 billion) to the 2025 state budget, with the increase accompanied by an across-the-board cut to ministerial budgets
By Sam Sokol
Demonstrators clash with police during a protest against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox Jews outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, April 28, 2025 (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
June 5, 2025, 7:39 pm
Haredi ‘national alert system’ provides warning of IDF operations against draft dodgers
‘The State of Israel wants to destroy the Jewish religion,’ argues hotline chief; disrupting enforcement may constitute ‘obstruction of justice,’ says ex-chief IDF defense counsel
By Sam Sokol
Noam party leader Avi Maoz speaks in the Knesset, March 31, 2025. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
May 8, 2025, 8:00 pm
Coalition revives contentious bid to limit Law of Return; this time, it may pass
An amendment that would deny people with only one Jewish grandparent the automatic right to immigrate to Israel is expected to be approved when it is discussed again in two months
By Zev Stub
Ultra-Orthodox Jews study at the Ponevezh yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 8, 2025, 4:17 pm
Does the 2025 state budget encourage Haredim to evade IDF service?
Critics charge that allocating over NIS 1 billion in yeshiva funding incentivizes draft evasion, while Haredim complain they are being ‘slandered’ and ‘delegitimized’
By Sam Sokol
US President Donald Trump delivers remarks on reciprocal tariffs during an event in the Rose Garden entitled 'Make America Wealthy Again,' at the White House in Washington, on April 2, 2025. (Brendan Smialowski/AFP)
April 3, 2025, 9:58 am
Trump unveils sweeping global tariffs, including 17% US import duty on Israeli goods
Manufacturers Association calls move ‘worrying step’ that diminishes trade between countries, warns it could impact job market; penalties come despite Israel cancelling all tariffs on US goods
By Agencies, ToI Staff and Jacob Magid
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 Jews outside an army recruitment office in Jerusalem, March 4, 2024. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
March 9, 2025, 3:47 pm
AG, police silent in face of growing ecosystem of Haredi evasion organizations
‘We regret that law enforcement agencies are de facto condoning criminality on such an important issue,’ says Movement for Quality Government; offense punishable by 15 years in jail
By Sam Sokol
Minister of Jerusalem Affairs and Jewish Heritage Meir Porush arrives for a cabinet meeting at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, on September 10, 2023. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
February 16, 2025, 9:23 pm
Watchdog group demands criminal probe of Haredi party behind anti-enlistment hotline
Movement for Quality Government says Agudat Yisrael promoting draft dodging, assisting Haredim to circumvent order on daycare subsidies for kids of yeshiva students who fail to enlist
By Sam Sokol
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
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs at the Knesset, in Jerusalem on July 31, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 29, 2024, 9:50 pm
As most Israelis tighten belts, cabinet treats top bureaucrats to massive bonuses
Up to 300 ministry director-generals, their deputies, other senior directors to get retirement perks of up to $68,000 each
By Sam Sokol
Opposition Leader MK Yair Lapid leads a meeting of his Yesh Atid faction at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, on September 9, 2024. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
October 14, 2024, 2:22 pm
Lapid warns civil servants they must oppose ‘laundering’ of state funds for Haredim
Opposition leader announces team to spearhead opposition to 2025 budget and to moves to pay benefits to ultra-Orthodox despite legal restrictions imposed by High Court ruling
By Sam Sokol
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir talks to beachgoers at Tel Aviv's Geula beach, September 6, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Josh Breiner, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 8, 2024, 2:48 am
Woman accused of throwing sand at Ben Gvir sent to house arrest after night in jail
Noa Goldenberg denies allegations as Tel Aviv judge says he’s not convinced there were grounds to arrest her or keep her in custody
By ToI Staff
National Security Minister Itamar Ben Gvir talks to beachgoers at Tel Aviv's Geula beach, September 6, 2024. (Screen capture: X/Josh Breiner, used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
September 7, 2024, 9:15 am
Woman jailed overnight after allegedly throwing sand at Ben Gvir on Tel Aviv beach
Citing ‘fear of tampering,’ judge denies lawyer’s request for suspect’s release on medical grounds; activists enraged by police’s initial failure to disclose her location
By ToI Staff
View of a large fire caused from rockets fired from Lebanon, in the northern town of Kiryat Shmona, June 3, 2024. (Ayal Margolin/Flash90)
June 4, 2024, 11:24 am
‘A nightmare’: North cries out for action amid widespread fires sparked by Hezbollah
Opposition lawmakers pan ‘weak’ government as fires burn for over a day across swaths of territory; far-right ministers say Lebanon should ‘burn,’ be sent back to ‘Stone Age’
By Stuart Winer and ToI Staff
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