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International Monetary Fund: Israel's GDP Growth Stable

Israel's GDP continues to grow, according to new report - but unemployment in specific populations continue to threaten that growth.

Hareidi Activists: Say No to Soldier Costumes

Will hareidi boys no longer dress up as IDF soldiers? Activists argue that popular costumes ‘won’t bring joy’ this Purim.

Lapid: Hareidi Israelis Are Our Brothers

Yair Lapid says he understands the anger in the hareidi community over the draft bill, but insists it was the 'right thing to do'.

IDF Soldier Attacked In Bnei Brak

Days after massive hareidi protest of yeshiva funding cuts, soldier attacked and sent to hospital. Follows hareidi MK warnings to Lapid.

Bennett: Jewish Home Could Leave Coalition Over Kerry Plan

Bennett rejects coalition 'soap opera,' says will leave coalition if peace deal doesn't meet his party's values.

Govt: Anyone Who Insults Hareidi Soldiers in Big Trouble

A law already on the books says that anyone insulting soldiers, including hareidi soldiers, could be jailed for 6 months and pay a huge fine

‘Yeshiva Heads: You Hold Lives in Your Hands’

Call for extreme caution in yeshivas as Bnei Brak slaying is linked to expulsion.

Court to Rule on Beit Shemesh Election Appeal

Beit Shemesh residents are waiting for a ruling from the High Court that will determine if new elections will be held soon

Video Campaign Target Yiddish Hareidi Aliyah

YouTube campaign by World Mizrachi movement, initiated by Jeremy Gimpel, calls on hareidi to immigrate to Israel - in Yiddish.

Ariel Expedites Hareidi Construction After Discrimination Claims

Housing Minister meets with major project leaders of hareidi-religious communities after hareidi media attacks Ariel for 'discrimination.'

Supreme Court Pushes Govt. To Enlist Hareidim

Judges demand govt. speed up legislative proceedings in drafting new hareidi IDF enlistment law.

Hareidi Media Attacks Housing Minister For Tenders

Hareidi papers slam Uri Ariel over Judea and Samaria construction plans, saying he's ignoring housing crisis among hareidi public.

Terrorist Stabbing Near Damascus Gate in Jerusalem

30-year-old Hareidi-religious man stabbed in neck on Saturday afternoon, evacuated to hospital. Police hunting Arab youth responsible.

Lapid: Fire the Chief Rabbis

Finance Minister promises to fire Israel's chief rabbis over ruling that Jewish law forbids religious girls from enlisting in the IDF.

Who Are Israel's 'Top Rabbis?'

Who is the most influential rabbi in Israel? According to Channel 10, it is Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman.

Lapid Triumphant: Hareidi Schools to Teach ‘Core Curriculum’

Finance Minister says Shas schools will teach science, math, and English. ‘This is the key to a better life.’

Anger as Mayor Blocks Housing for Hareidi Jews

Mayor of Lod holds up housing project, says he doesn’t want ‘socio-economically weak’ hareidi Jews making his city poorer.

Court, Towns Say No to Hareidi Schools in Secular Areas

Children attending a hareidi religious school in the central Israel town of Kadima protested after a court ordered the school closed.

Technion Program Prepares Hareidim for Hi-Tech

New mechina (university preparatory) program is designed to integrate hareidi, open the hi-tech workforce for them.

Rabbi: Hareidi Fraud Stems from ‘Exile Mentality’

Rabbi: elections fraud stems from ‘exile mentality’ imported to Israel; hareidi leaders should focus on fighting it.

Shas's Mayor to Appeal Beit Shemesh Verdict

Zionist politicians are happy with decision to hold new elections, but hareidi parties say the court surrendered to media pressure.

MK: Beit Shemesh Case reveals Anti-Hareidi Bias

Hareidi MK Menachem Moses slams calls to redo Beit Shemesh vote. ‘They’re only saying it because the mayor is a hareidi.’

Light Sentences for Arabs Who Attacked Hareidi Man

Two Arabs from eastern Jerusalem who took part in a group assault on the Jewish man receive one year in jail each.

Hareidi Rabbi Threatens: Meah Shearim Riots ‘Just a Promo’

Hareidi rabbi warns of world-wide campaign against forced enlistment. ‘Netanyahu will learn,’ he says.

Hareidim Fight 'Discrimination' on Facebook - with a New Logo

Hareidi group creates two-bar ‘equality’ symbol as protest against rejection of anti-discrimination bill.

Female Officer: I Hope Hareidim Die

Statement by Lt. Col. may reflect tension between feminists and religious soldiers in IDF.

Gantz: A Hareidi Soldier in IDF Will Leave IDF Hareidi

In Shaked Committee meeting, IDF Chief of Staff states 'The IDF does not see the hareidi-religious community as an enemy.'

Bennett: Likud to Decide on Jail for Hareidi Draft Dodgers

Bennett: Likud will ultimately decide whether hareidi draft-dodgers are sent to jail, or receive economic sanctions instead.

Rabbi Sacks: More Hareidim Need to be in IDF

Speaking Wednesday, former British Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks said that the IDF served a very important role in Israeli society

Knesset Knocks Down Law On Hareidi Discrimination

Law that would have made discrimination against hareidi religious Jews illegal rejected by the Knesset on its first reading.

Report: Draft-Dodging Sanctions to Be Economic, Not Criminal

New draft law for hareidi-religious sector set to impose economic sanctions - not criminal punishment - against draft-dodgers.

AG Reveals: Govt. to Oversee Hareidi Money-Lending

The government plans to institute oversight of 'gemach' free loan societies. Weinstein: Hareidi leaders will be involved in process.

Official: Slow Progress on Equal Service Law Problematic

Hareidi-religious Israelis may not have the option to fulfill their obligations to the state in the National Service, official warns.

Government Gives Go-Ahead to New Hareidi City

Government approves hareidi city, religious village in Negev. Leftist parties protest ‘injustice.’

Posters Emerge Across Israel Against MK Rabbi Eli Ben-Dahan

Inflammatory posters call for Ben-Dahan to be relieved of his post; Bayit Yehudi condemns ongoing 'incitement' campaign against rabbi.

NJ Torah Event to Support Haredim in Israel

Rabbi Borenstein of Bnei Brak will address event focusing on supporting Haredim in Israel faced with "harsh decrees."

Bayit Yehudi Demands New Beit Shemesh Vote

In letter to A-G, faction head Shaked says “a system has been discovered, a mechanism of forgery was exposed.”

Report: Fewer Young Couples Leaving Jerusalem

Fewer young people moved out of Jerusalem last year, according to the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies (JIIS).

Extremism an Issue in Beit Shemesh Race

Beit Shemesh mayor recalls his accomplishments, but some residents say he’s to blame for continuing religious extremism.

Hareidi Woman Set to Make History in Elad

Hareidi ‘Mothers’ Party’ may become make history with female representatives in hareidi city.

Dozens of Hareidim Ascend Temple Mount

Rabbi Yitzchak Brand ascended along with dozens of followers and their families, to pray at the holiest Jewish site

Hareidi MKs Furious at Religious Zionists over Foreign Students

Bayit Yehudi under fierce attack for its support of a budget cut ending financial support to yeshiva students from abroad.

Bayit Yehudi Activist Stabbed in Jerusalem Park

A volunteer for Bayit Yehudi, who was posting signs in Sacher Park in Jerusalem, was stabbed by an individual in hareidi garb.

Hareidim Rally Against 'Unfiltered Internet'

The harm of technology has been a growing controversial topic for Hareidim as thousands joined in a conference against unfiltered internet.

Threats End Hareidi Woman's Jewish Home Candidacy

Candidate Racheli Ivenboim says she faced threats her children would be forced out of school. 'Time for the hareidi community to decide.'

First Pre-Army Academy for Hareidi Students

New "mechina" school will give hareidi teenagers a year of intensive pre-army preparation, Torah study.

Peres to Hareidi Youth: Be Like the Rambam

Peres sits down with hareidi youth, calls for hareidi Jews to attend college, enter the workforce. ‘Be like the Rambam.’

Child Allowance Payments Hit All-Time Low

Finance Minister Yair Lapid celebrates delivery of one of Yesh Atid's central campaign promises - but not everyone is cheering.

Businessman's Vision Takes Off

Hareidi Experts in Israel Provide Real Estate Services to US

Israel leads hi-tech, but did you know it is a major force in the US real estate world due to a highly trained group of hareidi women?

Report: Secular Man on Bus Hit Hareidi Who Asked Woman to Move

Police: a secular man punched a hareidi man who asked a woman to move to the back seats of a Jerusalem bus. Bus company's version differs.

Bennett: The Goal – Get Most Hareidi Men to Work

Bennett: The political fighting is over – time to get started.

Report: Piron Planning Hareidi Public Schools

Hareidi media reports: Education Minister trying to bring hareidi schools under state auspices.

Rabbi: Zionists Fought Hareidim, and Lost

The Rabbinate elections show the religious-Zionist community what happens if it fights the hareidi world, religious-Zionist rabbi says.

Air Force Gets Inside Look at the Hareidi World

Air Force commanders prepare for new hareidi-religious recruits with a tour of Jerusalem’s Chassidic communities.

Gafni Apologizes to Calderon After Telling Her to 'Shut Up'

MK Moshe Gafni has apologized to MK Ruth Calderon after he told her to “shut up” during a heated Knesset debate on Wednesday.

Another Attack on Hareidi Soldier in Jerusalem

Hareidim threw objects at a soldier at the Shmuel Hanavi neighborhood. He was not hurt.

Public Security Minister: Dozens of Hareidi Attacks on Soldiers

Min. Aharonovich: five hareidi attacks on soldiers in recent days - most attacks go unreported

Bennett Defends Hareidi Community: Don’t Blame Everyone

Naftali Bennett denounces attack on hareidi soldier, but warns that condemning all hareidi Jews is no less dangerous.

Shas ‘Disgusted’ by Attack on Hareidi Soldier

Hareidi-religious Shas party expresses shock, disgust over ‘wicked’ attack on soldier.

Hareidi Soldier Attacked by Meah Shearim Mob

The delegitimization of IDF soldiers in the hareidi community continued Tuesday night, as a soldier was stoned in Meah Shearim