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Sergeant Major Avishag Shiran Malka of the Israel Border Police. Source: Screenshot.

Meet Israel’s only female ultra-Orthodox Border Police officer

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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...
Haredi women work at the Malam Group office in Beitar Illit, south of Jerusalem, Aug. 19, 2009. Photo by Nati Shohat/Flash90.

Record employment for Israeli ultra-Orthodox men

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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...
United Torah Judaism Party leader Yitzhak Goldknopf heads to the podium at the Knesset in Jerusalem, Dec. 29, 2022. Photo by Yonatan Sindel/Flash90.

UTJ bill would make Torah study ‘core state value,’ enshrine draft exemptions

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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...
UTJ Knesset members Ya'akov Tessler and Uri Maklev attend a party meeting at the Knesset, Dec. 5, 2022. Credit: Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Knesset pushes bill to criminalize incitement against ultra-Orthodox

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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...
Jaffa Road in Jerusalem, Aug. 30, 2022. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90.

Jerusalem will soon be Israel’s first million-denizen city

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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...
Former Public Security Minister Omer Barlev, chairman of the board of Angel Bakeries, at a "Brothers in Arms" protest outside the home of venerated Rabbi Gershon Edelstein in Bnei Brak, May 4, 2023. Photo by Flash90.

Anti-haredi sentiment and the boycott of Angel Bakeries

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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...
Incoming IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi is promoted to lieutenant general in a ceremony at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, Jan. 16, 2023. Photo by Alex Kolomoisky/POOL.

IDF chief: No substitute for the ‘people’s army’

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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 Levkivker, co-founder of Massdom, presents his company at a Bizmax “scalerator” event for haredi tech business leaders at Mortimer House in London on March 20, 2023. Photo by Dudy Braun.

Israel’s haredi economy is the ‘most important factor’ in its future success

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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...
Ultra-Orthodox Jews celebrate the end of the Shavuot holiday in Jerusalem’s Old City, June 12, 2016. Photo by Shlomi Cohen/Flash 90.

Why are the ultra-Orthodox the happiest group in Israel?

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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...

New charity card is upgrading the giving experience in Jewish circles

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Even tzedakah is going high-tech. There are endless opportunities for charitable giving in the Jewish world. And with the biblical commandment to give maser—one-tenth of one’s income to charity—it means that there are also countless people seeking out...