AG says haredi education funding will depend on meeting core study requirements. MK Moshe Gafni: 'If she decides what haredi students should study, I demand that all Israeli children study the 613 commandments.'
Religious Zionism MK says gradual haredi enlistment could ease burden on reservists and enable more soldiers to return to their families, calls for 61-seat right-wing majority that is loyal to the national camp.
Extreme subfaction of Jerusalem Faction block Route 4 near Bnei Brak after a yeshiva student was supposedly arrested and handed over to the military police after being summoned for interrogation.
Three families became stranded at 2,300 meters after straying from their route with baby carriages and no mountain equipment, prompting a massive helicopter rescue.
Haim Treitel, who fought his way through more than a year of rehabilitation after being wounded in the leg during combat in Gaza, completes officers' course.
At his 4-year-old grandson's funeral, Rabbi Arush said haredi students do not have a 'vacation from the Torah' during the yeshiva's vacations.
The organization “Haredim in the Army - Preserving Identity" assists \haredi soldiers who discover the complexities of life within the military framework, and it turns out there are quite a few challenges.
Haredi leader Rabbi Dov Landau condemns what he calls persecution of Torah study, urging yeshiva students to deepen their learning amid new decrees.
Sanzer Rebbe meets young haredi man recently freed from military prison, praises his steadfastness, insisting 'most Jews in Israel' do not hate Torah students.
Three educational institutions affiliated with the Belz Hasidic movement in Montreal lost their licenses just before the start of the school year due to ongoing systemic failures.
For too long, the established Haredi parties have treated the right-wing public as a coalition partner but not as a partner in a shared national mission. That must change.
The Hatzalah Fund distributed approximately $5 million to Haredi educational institutions that maintain financial independence from the government, as part of its annual $17 million aid program.
Haredim protested the opening of a café on Shabbat. During the demonstration, a civilian told the protesters, "I was wounded in Lebanon." One protester replied, "It's a shame you didn't die."
Education Ministry audit finds dozens of haredi daycare centers allegedly failed to pass government-funded bonuses on to classroom aides, prompting demands to recover millions of shekels.
Israel Hofsheet appeals to Attorney General, municipal legal advisers, demanding local authorities halt funding for haredi cultural events and community programs.
The chairman of the Democrats party, Yair Golan, said at a conference that "we would not want to draft all the Haredim tomorrow morning."
Supreme Court temporarily blocks budget transfers approved by Finance Committee, citing alleged procedural flaws in approval process.
After he was attacked by extremists outside a guidance fair for haredi pre-military recruits, Brigadier General (Res.) Ofer Winter says he will continue working to integrate haredim in the IDF.
Footage from the demonstration shows Mendel Rata standing alongside police officers as protesters from the Jerusalem Faction confront and attack him.
At a follow-up meeting with the Attorney General, the IDF presented figures showing that 4,298 haredim enlisted during the 2025 recruitment year-a 53% increase compared to the previous year.
Haredi factions disagree on response to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's statements on law preventing arrest of haredi draft evaders, exposing internal rift.
Dozens of haredi demonstrators protest outside Jerusalem café open on Sabbath during visit by Yisrael Beytenu leader MK Avigdor Liberman.
Breslov hassidim protested at Ben Gurion Airport, demanding draft evaders be allowed to fly to Uman as fears of arrests before Rosh Hashanah grow.
A Shas-affiliated newspaper accuses emerging right-wing parties of making opposition to the haredi community a central election strategy, while criticizing several prominent political figures.
Residents are challenging Beit Shemesh's decision to operate the new Neve Shamir country club with full gender separation, arguing it breaks promises made when the neighborhood was developed.
The number of haredi recruits joining the IDF has risen steadily in recent years, with annual increases of more than 1,000 recruits.
Extremists distributed food and published celebratory messages after the death of Yaakov Aharon Farber, who led the Maalot Tzur haredi IDF initiative.
MK Limor Son Har-Melech hails Supreme Court's refusal to suspend the law permitting gender-separated academic programs, urges universities to begin implementing it.
Rabbi Yaakov Farber, a Belz Hasid who spearheaded the "Ma'alot Tzur" initiative to integrate haredim into the military, passes away after his condition deteriorated during a medical procedure.
Haredi community leaders are launching a large-scale consumer initiative aimed at reducing the cost of living for families of Yeshiva students, following the recent economic sanctions imposed on Yeshiva students who do not report for IDF service.
Wave of antisemitic incidents in Manchester: Haredi residents’ cars vandalized days after three Jews shot with air gun.
Netanyahu addressed years of speculation and reports suggesting that he and his daughter had become estranged, firmly denying the claims and stating that they remain in contact.
Senior rabbis from the Torat Ha’aretz HaTova organization have issued a public statement expressing support for IDF soldiers and the religious-Zionist community following controversial remarks by prominent Haredi leader Rabbi Dov Lando.
Rabbi Dov Lando says his private remarks were distorted and urges yeshiva students to avoid ideological arguments with those who oppose Torah values.
'Had everyone acted with a unified approach, the outcome could have been different,' says Moti Babchik, senior Agudat Yisrael official and former chief of staff at Israel’s Housing Ministry, on the lack of coordination between the haredi parties.
A New York Times report reveals growing Iranian intelligence efforts to recruit Israeli citizens for espionage, prompting the Shin Bet and police to enlist haredi rabbis to warn against financial collaboration.
There are Torah-true teachings that haredi ideology has ignored and subordinated to the preservation of haredi separateness. Opinion.
Israeli authorities enlisted leading rabbis to warn against Iranian recruitment as police report more than 60 espionage indictments.
IDF Spokesman Effie Defrin defended the Chief of Staff's warning on haredi draft legislation, saying political attacks undermine the entire military.
Ramat Gan's mayor apologized after a haredi man was allegedly beaten and threatened in a suspected anti-haredi attack in the city.
Hundreds surround tax inspectors in Bnei Brak's Kiryat Viznitz, hurling eggs and damaging their vehicle before police evacuate them from the scene.
Thousands of Sanz hasidim expected to protest outside Military Prison 10 after military court extends detention of two community members.
Former IDF spokesman Maj. Gen. (res.) Moti Almoz calls for issuing separate identity cards for military servicemembers and draft evaders, says Israel should stop funding those who refuse to serve.
Supreme Court justice temporarily freezes implementation of newly-passed law halting the arrest of haredi draft evaders, orders State to justify.
The Knesset approved a bill preventing arrests of haredi draft dodgers, with coalition support and opposition petitions filed against the move.
Rabbi Ya'ir Paran, great-grandson of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef, says that the Basic Law: Torah Study, 'disgraces the Torah' and calls for the state to draft haredim while preserving their way of life.
Shas MK Yaakov Margi opposes advancing 'Torah Study Law,' sharply rebukes anti-draft protesters chanting, 'We will die and not enlist.'
AG supports, Smotrich opposes: High Court discusses revoking tax benefits from haredi yeshivas whose students evaded conscription.
MK Moshe Gafni criticizes removal of haredi yeshivas attended by draft-evaders from list of institutions receiving tax benefits, blames representatives of Religious Zionist sector.
Gur hasid Moshe Reuven Verdiger arrested while awaiting official approval of military exemption request, plans for possible protests not yet known.
Detention facility staff refused to accept the pair of tefillin that a detainee's family brought for him after it was instructed to do so by the military.
Israel Securities Authority launches criminal probe into haredi businessman Haim Leib Kaplan over alleged NIS 200 million fundraising scheme.
Plainclothes officers chase, cuff and injure a haredi man in Ashdod before discovering he was not the suspect they were searching for.
Five Jewish women were targeted with a water cannon filled with manure while riding bicycles in the Catskills Mountains.
Thousands gather to pray for recovery of Vizhnitz Rebbe, Rabbi Yisrael Hager, at orderly but massive Western Wall prayer rally.
Most haredim still prefer studying in separate classes, but nearly half would be willing to study in mixed-gender classrooms in order to earn their desired academic degree.
Construction and Housing Ministry sends notices to thousands of haredi yeshiva students, informing them of revocation of eligibility for housing lotteries.
Soldiers guarding the Military Prison 10 complex clash with haredi rioters who infiltrated the facility.
Municipal politicians sparred over the municipality's decision to allocate the historic Bikur Cholim hospital building to a haredi educational institution.
MK Yosef Taieb repeatedly interrupted Rabbi Yirmi Stavisky's testimony before a Knesset committee, accusing the bereaved educator of attacking the haredi community.
