Haredi

Haredi faction holds emergency talks as Israel’s 2025 budget deadline looms

Haredi faction Degel Hatorah's vote on the 2025 budget remains uncertain amid coalition strife.

This is the way ultra-Orthodox men can be recruited into the IDF

Perhaps a decade from now, after the ultra-Orthodox population has become accustomed to core studies and state service, a universal military draft can be imposed.

By RIVKA WEILL
01/03/2025
 A SCENE from Phinehas Veuillet’s ‘Neither Day nor Night.’

'Neither day nor night': A powerful look at Mizrahi struggles in haredi society

Phinehas Veuillet’s 'Neither Day Nor Night' delves into the struggles of a newly religious Mizrahi family in Bnei Brak, exposing deep-seated biases in Haredi society.

  A HAREDI protest against enlisting in the military takes place outside the IDF recruitment office

Jerusalem Court criticizes prosecutors for targeting haredi protesters

"The data speaks for itself. It proves that minors from the ultra-Orthodox sector were the only ones prosecuted for passive unlawful assembly," the judge said.

By BINI ASHKENAZI
21/02/2025
 RABBI DOV LANDAU is watched as he enters a vehicle in Bnei Brak, last July.

Rabbi Dov Landau’s extremism exposes Israel’s growing haredi dilemma

For those hoping that shared national challenges might bridge the secular-religious divide, Rabbi Landau’s words are deeply discouraging.

  A haredi man and an IDF soldier pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem, November 14, 2024

New program helps address mental health stigma in Israel’s haredi community

A new program is bringing mental health support to Israel’s haredi community, tackling deep-rooted stigma.

By STUART KATZ , ZVIKA ORR
19/02/2025
 IDF soldiers from the Kfir brgigade operate in the Gaza Strip, November 20, 2024.

IDF personnel needs are acute, religious-Zionist yeshiva head says

Kalmanzon’s comments came during an FADC committee meeting on the haredi draft bill proposal.

Senior haredi rabbi instructs his constituents to withdraw from Zionist institutions

'Zionism is a movement whose purpose is to establish the Jewish people on an explicitly secular foundation, rooted in heresy,' Landau wrote.

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