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.
Bnei Brak set to become Israel's first city with gender-segregated streets, municipality announces
Sharren Haskel resigns as Israel's deputy FM over bill halting arrests of haredi draft dodgers
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.
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 shot heard around the world
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.”
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.
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 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.
Haredi extremist indicted for attacking, threatening senior IDF general
The protesters distributed fliers comparing Almoz to Hitler and military service to Auschwitz.
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.
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.