Tag: Haredi Draft Law
AG orders ministries to prepare to enlist ultra-Orthodox to IDF
Israel’s Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in a letter sent on Sunday instructed the legal advisers at the ministries of education and defense to start planning for the recruitment of haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, yeshivah students...
Gov’t plans to pass haredi draft law in the fall
Israel's governing coalition intends to pass a law regulating the draft into the Israel Defense Forces of haredi, or ultra-Orthodox, Jewish men during this fall's parliamentary session, temporarily delaying its judicial reform program.
"This is...
Anti-haredi sentiment and the boycott of Angel Bakeries
As the leaders of Israel’s protest movement have acknowledged, judicial-reform legislation is only part of the impetus for the demonstrations. This is why the pause in the process to enable negotiations didn’t cause them...
Haredi leader’s ultimatum: IDF draft law or ‘we quit’
Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of the United Torah Judaism Party (UTJ), said that “if the new recruitment plan isn’t settled, the government will fall apart,” speaking of a haredi conscription law the ultra-Orthodox parties are...
Israelis should emulate American Jewish attempts at unity
The great divide between the ultra-Orthodox minority and the non-Orthodox majority in the American Jewish community was hard to miss lately. The march against anti-Semitism from Lower Manhattan over the Brooklyn Bridge was almost...
IDF chief: ‘The number of Israel’s enemies is greater than the number of fronts’
Israel Defense Forces Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Aviv Kochavi said on Monday that Israel faces a growing number of enemies, as well as expanding fronts.
Speaking at an awards ceremony in central Israel, Kochavi said...
IDF denies cover-up over ultra-Orthodox recruitment numbers
Senior Israeli military officials involved with the army’s haredi (ultra-Orthodox) recruitment program denied on Wednesday that data was falsified to make it appear that recruitment quotas had been met, Ynet reported.
The statement came in response to a report...
Israeli science minister: ‘Likud will not turn Israel into a state run by Jewish...
Speaking to Israel Radio on Tuesday, Israel’s Science and Technology Minister Ofir Akunis said that the Likud Party under Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu would not lend a hand to turning Israel into a state...
Negotiations over Israeli government go down to wire as fresh elections loom
Negotiations over forming Israel’s next governing coalition are appearing to go down to the wire as a Wednesday-night deadline and potential elections loom.
“Until midnight tomorrow, the mandate for forming the government is in the...