Haredim

Police close haredi schools, fine principals

Schools opened following a ruling by Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, after negotiations with the government broke down.

Watch: Talmudei Torah open in violation of health instructions

Schools open in haredi communities despite continued ban on opening of grade schools.

'Over 1/3 of new coronavirus cases are haredim'

Health Ministry officials brief haredi media on why health officials currently oppose reopening yeshivas.

Bnei Brak records 62% drop in new coronavirus cases

The number of those recovering is now double the number of new cases.

ZAKA chief: Healthy people are succumbing within just days

"Is this really just a political debate?" asks Yehuda Meshi-Zahav, "or are we simply facing a reality?"

'We need to rethink hospitalizing so many coronavirus patients'

"Haredim have improvised a home-care system; we should be funding doctors and nurses to do the same."

Plan to reopen haredi schools frozen

Senior haredi rabbis freeze plan to reopen schools Monday, push for agreement with government to reopen education system.

Haredim to gov't: Keep us in lockdown, but let the schools open

Each haredi group formulates its own method of adjusting to the coronavirus reality.

The dati-haredi divide: The Covid Stress Test

What lies behind those in the haredi community who disregarded the covid guidelines? A socio-religious analysis. Opinion.

Netanyahu to haredim: No dancing on Simchat Torah

PM delivers message to haredi community ahead of Simchat Torah holiday. 'There is no herd immunity It's a death sentence for thousands.'

Health experts: Haredi death rate far higher than expected

Only 3% of haredim are over 65, but their share of fatalities is disproportionately high.

Violent confrontations with police in Modi'in Illit, Tel Aviv

Several police officers were injured in the incidents; arrests were made.

Watch: Haredi children attack vehicle with soldier

IDF soldier's car surrounded by children, young men who curse, throw stones at him.

Liberman: Haredim spit in face of the rest of the country

Yisrael Beyteinu chairman slams mass funeral for Pittsburgh Rebbe. 'Netanyahu, haredi parties must move to opposition to beat coronavirus.'

Karlin-Stolin Rebbe contracts coronavirus

In Karlin chassidus, restrictions are adhered to meticulously. Haredi confidence in following the rules is now likely to plummet.

'Haredi community now seeks to reach herd immunity'

Public relations rep. from haredi community says haredim saw that COVID restrictions didn't help, and thus gave up on them.

NYC warns of coronavirus spread in Orthodox Jewish neighborhoods

New York City's health department expresses 'significant concern' over concentration of new coronavirus cases in Jewish neighborhoods.

400 buses ordered for demonstrations

Haredi groups order hundreds of buses for Jerusalem, other cities to allow demonstrators to return home in solitary confinement.

Bnei Brak mayor apologizes for 'bad joke' train video

Mayor apologizes after municipality hires actor to pretend to keep haredim off of trains to protest light rail routes.

Bad joke: The truth behind the train station video

Following responses of outrage, man seen in video blocking haredim from boarding train found to be actor hired by the city of Bnei Brak.

Lockdowns Cancelled?

PM to back curfews, school closures in place of lockdown

Following backlash from haredi leaders, Netanyahu cancels plans to impose full lockdown on dozens of towns.

Haredi Mayors vs PM:

'The haredi public won't forget this'

'We won't forget who signed the order, over and over again, to turn us into the enemies of the people.' Haredi mayors blast PM over lockdown

Zionism is a polarizing word

Zionism has contradictory associations for different sectors of Israeli society. How to bridge the gap, asks a baal tshuva writer?

'Hatred for haredim has blinded people on Uman ban'

Coalition chairman says ban on Uman pilgrimage is backfiring, claims anti-haredi bias is behind push to ban visitors.

Gantz: Netanyahu seeks to divide Israelis

Alternate PM meets with haredi reporters, says draft law is ready to be passed, expects haredi parties to abide by agreement.

Coronavirus delays a wedding - but not the celebrations

A haredi bride tested positive for coronavirus, forcing her wedding to be delayed. Here's what happened next.

He helped haredi families find jobs. Now his family has nothing

During his life, Rav Dovid Oberlander worked in high-tech, and helped other Orthodox men to find suitable tech work environments.

Metro plan doesn't include stops in Bnei Brak

'Unthinkable' to pay tens of millions in programs so haredim can work, but deny them access to transportation there, organization says.

43% of haredim learned online during coronavirus shutdown

New poll shows uptick in haredi population's use of internet, with more haredim working online from home than other sectors.

Report: Netanyahu seeks NIS 400 million for haredi yeshivas

Prime Minister Netanyahu reportedly seeks to convince haredi parties not to oppose new elections with new funding for yeshivas.

Shaked: Time to dissolve the coalition

Shaked said that with the haredim not getting any of their wishes met and a bevy of other issues, the coalition could no longer keep going.

Benny Gantz: '13 coronavirus hotels for haredim'

About 4,000 sick and isolated so far evacuated to hotels adapted for haredim: 'Entire security system mobilized for challenge to save lives'

MK Moshe Gafni: 'Why is there a closure only in our cities?'

Degel Hatorah Chair: 'The haredi public's mood is despondent on an unprecedented level; the feeling is they deal with us unfairly.'

Smotrich to Arutz Sheva:

'There's no information, testing, or economic solutions'

MK Smotrich offers services as haredi coronavirus liaison: 'There's chaos, lack of communication, feeling they locked city, threw away key.'

Police superintendent meets girl who was confronted by police

After video of police confronting young girl sparks outrage across Israel, the girl tours police station with her family.

'We need to honor Torah scholars more'

Spiritual leader at hardest-hit haredi yeshiva implies coronavirus outbreak due to disrespect of Torah and Torah scholars.

Clashes between protesters and police in Jerusalem

Hundreds of haredim protest closures imposed by city.

Smotrich in Betar: 'Without full partnership this won't work'

Yamina MK visits War Room in Betar Illit, which faces closure and increase in morbidity, and returns with some insights.

Criteria for imposing lockdowns to be published in advance

PM agrees to demand by Aryeh Deri to publish guidelines for declaring restricted areas amid reports of discrimination against haredim.

Jerusalem Mayor: Closure will turn neighborhoods into incubators

Jerusalem Mayor warns Health Ministry measures to combat coronavirus in haredi neighborhoods may only worsen situation.

Minister Litzman:

'It's police harassment; bring them to justice'

Construction and Housing Minister appeals to Internal Security Minister following video of police detaining 13-year-old girl in Jerusalem.

'Yeshiva students may be on the streets'

Coronavirus may have caused 'what Zionists haven't managed to accomplish in 70 years,' Rabbi Yitzhak Koldetzki says.

Haredi men stop Arabs from harassing women - and are attacked

Haredi men step up, demand gang of Arabs cease harassing haredi women - and are attacked by the Arabs.

Hamodia attacks: The haredim have lost confidence

When the media needs blood, there's nothing like turning on the haredim, merchandise that always has buyers, says Hamodia's Yaakov Reinitz.

Housing Minister scraps plan for new haredi city in the Negev

Housing Min. Litzman scraps plan for new haredi city - after government invested tens of millions in planning.

'Exercise judgment before imposing a lockdown'

MK Moshe Abutbul recommends that policymakers calculate their steps when it comes to imposing coronavirus lockdowns.

'It's wrong to lock down an entire city'

MK Porush: Because of a few dozen virus cases, 50 thousand haredi residents of Elad are in lockdown.

Haredi employment in public sector far from gov't goal

Shas MK Michael Malchieli urges Finance Committee meeting to force recruitment of haredim for public service positions.

E. Jerusalem resident arrested for sexual assault of haredi teen

Resident of Arab neighborhood in Jerusalem arrested on suspicion of assaulting haredi youth.

'The haredi public is neither right nor left'

MK Yaakov Asher says his party will bring the issue of sovereignty before its rabbis before deciding whether to support it.

Avigdor Liberman: Haredim raise children to be 'election fodder'

Yisrael Beyteinu Chairman: 'Netanyahu sold secular, traditional, religious Zionists to haredim in liquidation sale.'

Arab describes haredi man who helped him: 'He's a holy man'

Arab man loses bag with 40,000 shekels - and receives it back after haredi person finds it.

The haredi sector and coronavirus: Just the facts, please

To Ron Jager: It is sad that what began as a factual piece concerning COVID-19 descended into lambasting all of Haredi society. Opinion.

Haredim call on Netanyahu to bring Yamina into government

Leaders of haredi parties call for united right-wing bloc to be included in government.

Tragedy of the haredi coronavirus crisis-a sympathetic analysis

The question is not what mistakes the haredi community made, but why they happened, and finger pointing is of no use.

A rabbi's outrageous attack on the haredi community

Rabbi Yitz Greenberg’s unfair attack on haredi Jews during the corona crisis was published in a paper they do not read. Opinion.

Yeshivas to reopen? Not in some hasidic circles

Despite plan allowing yeshivas to reopen, some hasidic groups have instructed their communities to continue distance learning.

Survey: Most haredim are adhering to coronavirus guidelines

Survey shows vast majority of haredim adhering to Health Ministry guidelines for social distancing, personal protection.

'It felt like my head was burning'

Zissy Margaliot, 9-year-old who was hit by a police stun grenade, speaks about her experience.

Police break into Bnei Brak apartment to stop the music

Well-known haredi singers Ruli and Yoely Dickman perform live from their apartment to bring some joy to their neighbors, and then...