Haredi news

High Court freezes Knesset law stopping arrests of haredi military draft evaders

The court issued a conditional order hours after the Knesset approved the legislation, citing longstanding rulings on yeshiva conscription and concerns over selective enforcement.

Protests against haredi draft in Jerusalem, October 30, 2025.
Ladies in Bnei Brak watching as the men leave to protest outsidem of Military Prison 10 on June 24, 2026.

Bnei Brak set to become Israel's first city with gender-segregated streets, municipality announces

Deputy Minister MK Sharren Haskel attends a Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, December 2, 2025.

Sharren Haskel resigns as Israel's deputy FM over bill halting arrests of haredi draft dodgers

Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset vote on a bill to freeze arrests of haredi draft evaders, in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026

Knesset votes to freeze arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders amid IDF manpower crisis


Please go to your seat, sir

Finally, El Al staff are forbidden to collaborate with haredi gender segregation.

PLENTY OF room to sit, but no room for discrimination

Shameful day for Israel as it freezes plan for pluralistic prayer site at Kotel

Netanyahu’s office made sure to issue a statement that the cabinet decision on Sunday was not to cancel the deal but was merely to freeze it. This is a sham.

THE WESTERN WALL. Some 47% of left-wing respondents said they would not agree to a partition of the Old City, compared to 94% on the Right and 78% of centrists.

The shot heard around the world

The Jerusalem Post

Haredi parties advance proposal to nix egalitarian section of Western Wall

MK Rachel Azaria: "We must not lose US Jewry, and this proposal is a threat to this support.”

Reform Jews pray at new Western Wall egalitarian section

I have a new hero this week

Our goal must be to create a society in which my new hero can walk with pride on the streets of his neighborhood – and we must take the necessary steps to create that reality.

A TOLDOT AHARON Hassid (right) and another haredi man escort the son of former MK Dov Lipman, who is a soldier, away from an anti-Zionist mob in the capital’s Mea She’arim neighborhood on Friday.

Haredi rabbi who threatened IDF general released to house arrest

Iram was indicted last week for threatening IDF Maj.-Gen. Manpower Chief Moti Almoz for his part in drafting haredim into the army.

Haredi extremists burn haredi IDF soldier in effigy

Haredi parties threaten coalition crisis over construction work on Shabbat

Last August, construction work on infrastructure in Tel Aviv on Saturdays became a severe point of contention between haredi parties United Torah Judaism and Shas and Transport Minister Israel Katz.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman unveil the plaque for Tzrifin’s Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center yesterday, along with members of the Shamir family.

Haredi extremist indicted for attacking, threatening senior IDF general

The protesters distributed fliers comparing Almoz to Hitler and military service to Auschwitz.

Haredi men celebrating IDF desertion.

Temech’s Jerusalem conference helps haredi women open small businesses

The conference was geared toward women who are running businesses or seeking to establish one.

ULTRA-ORTHODOX WOMEN network at the Jerusalem International Convention Center yesterday

Haredim ramp up attacks on police in Mea She’arim

Over the past four years, extremists have been waging a campaign of incitement against ultra-Orthodox men enlisting in the IDF in order to delegitimize and halt the growing number of such enlistees.

ULTRA-ORTHODOX MEN clash with police in the capital’s Mea She’arim neighborhood yesterday.