Gadi Eisenkot demands haredi party Shas remove new election ad invoking IDF soldiers
Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Solberg issued on Sunday an interim order for the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Shas…
Haredi protesters gather at Maccabim checkpoint after arrest report
Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters gathered at the Maccabim checkpoint near Modi’in on Thursday night, after rumors spread that police…
Ex-general called ‘traitor’ as Haredi demonstrators riot at event for ultra-Orthodox draftees
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters on Tuesday rioted outside a conference in central Jerusalem about special tracks for Haredim…
Political cartoons on ultra-Orthodox IDF draft vandalized before Animix Festival
An exhibition of political cartoons about the exemption of the ultra-Orthodox from military service was vandalized on Monday…
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu reverses course on draft-dodger legislation
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s reported admission that his government’s law freezing the arrests of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft evaders…
At Tel Aviv rally, daughter of couple slain on Oct. 7 says government is ‘defiling our dead’
Weekly anti-government and left-wing demonstrations were held Saturday evening in multiple locations across the country to decry the…
Off-duty soldiers, Border Police attacked in Jerusalem by dozens of Haredi males
A large group of ultra-Orthodox males accosted several off-duty soldiers walking in Jerusalem late Thursday, amid a rally…
Israel leaders sign petition against Knesset’s passing of haredi draft bill
Over 70 mayors and council leaders from across Israel filed a petition on Wednesday condemning the haredi (ultra-Orthodox)…
How Gadi Eisenkot’s snub of Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef redefines Israeli politics
Former chief rabbi and Shas spiritual leader Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef offered Yashar Party head Gadi Eisenkot a political…
Knesset approves bill extending mandatory IDF service
The Knesset plenum passed late Thursday night the bill to extend mandatory military service to 32 months. Forty-three…
Israel’s Knesset votes to freeze arrests of haredi draft evaders
The Knesset plenum passed on Tuesday the contentious bill that will temporarily freeze the arrests of haredi (ultra-Orthodox)…
IDF chief raps ‘inconceivable’ bill freezing ultra-Orthodox enlistment
A day after a Knesset committee advanced a bill that will effectively freeze ultra-Orthodox enlistment to the military…