Tag: Haredim
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...
IDF chief: No substitute for the ‘people’s army’
There is “no substitute” for the Jewish state’s “people’s army” model, whereby all citizens are meant to serve in some capacity, including most being conscripted into the military, IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen....
Israel’s haredi economy is the ‘most important factor’ in its future success
Participants talked shop over coffee and catered meals, exchanged business cards and heard presentations on new companies and the problems they aim to solve during the daylong program. But this gathering of technology entrepreneurs...
Why are the ultra-Orthodox the happiest group in Israel?
Haredi Jews are the happiest group in Israel, according to a 2022 life satisfaction and happiness survey conducted by Panels Politics. However, a report prepared by the Israel Democracy Institute noted that more than 44% of...