Tag: Haredim
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...
Gallant: Will only support haredi draft if entire coalition does
Israeli Defense Minister Yoav Gallant on Wednesday demanded that every member of the government must support a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) conscription law if it is to win his support.
Speaking at a press conference at IDF headquarters in...
Israeli chief rabbi says secular Jews who eat non-kosher ‘get stupid’
The Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel says secular Jews who eat non-kosher “get stupid” and are envious of the ultra-Orthodox.
Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef’s inflammatory remarks, made during a weekend sermon days after Yom Kippur, risks exacerbating...
Must Jews ‘repent’ for voting for Trump?
In the weeks before the observance of Rosh Hashanah, religious Jews give a lot of lip service to the idea of repentance. That is the main point of our observance in the Hebrew month...
Meet Israel’s only female ultra-Orthodox Border Police officer
Sgt. Maj. Avishag Shiran Malka, 38, is the only female ultra-Orthodox member of the Israel Border Police. The stringent religious practice of the ultra-Orthodox combined with the intense nature of her work can be...
Record employment for Israeli ultra-Orthodox men
The employment rate for ultra-Orthodox men in Israel has reached an all-time high of 55.8% amid a soaring cost of living and rising interest rates, according to a report by the Central Bureau of...
UTJ bill would make Torah study ‘core state value,’ enshrine draft exemptions
The United Torah Judaism Party on Tuesday proposed the passage of a quasi-constitutional Basic Law that would define Torah study as a “core state value," in a bid to effectively place on par the...
Knesset pushes bill to criminalize incitement against ultra-Orthodox
Israel's parliament on Wednesday voted (54 to 34) to advance a bill seeking to amend Israel's Penal Law to make it a criminal offense to incite against haredim, or ultra-Orthodox Jews.
Sponsoring the bill were Knesset...
Jerusalem will soon be Israel’s first million-denizen city
Jerusalem is on track to become Israel’s first city with more than one million residents, according to data published ahead of Thursday’s celebrations marking 56 years of a reunified capital.
The Central Bureau of Statistics report...
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...