National religious

Religious identity remains Israel's strongest political divide, new IDI study finds

While the relationship between religion and political affiliation remained largely stable compared to the previous election, the study identified several notable shifts between 2021 and 2022. 

 A voting box in the last Israeli election in 2015
IDF SOLDIERS operating in the Gaza Strip.

Pareto vs the IDF: Does sociology determine army service? - opinion

 Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi Kalman Ber visits the Bnei David study hall, where Jewish philosophy is also taught.

Religious Zionism is under attack in Israel - opinion

‘HE WAS always looking out for others – his brothers, his friends, even complete strangers.’ The Shrem family during happier times.

A hero's legacy: Remembering fallen IDF soldier Shlomi Shrem's faith, love, sacrifice


Jerusalem elections: A game of musical chairs

It seems that at the next council, the national religious sector will be headed by two religious representatives who share almost all the same ideals but don’t speak to each other.

Rachel Azaria is running for Jerusalem's mayor at the head of the Yerushalmim party

Teaching Evolution In The Start-Up Nation

Educating students on Darwin’s theory of evolution—especially with regard to mankind’s common origins—can be tricky in Israel, teachers say.

A detail of British artist John Collier's 1883 painting of Charles Darwin is displayed as part of an exhibition in Darwin's former home.

Queen of the national religious

An encounter with Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe

Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe

Senior national religious rabbis call for Knesset oversight on arms sales

The letter comes as activists for tighter oversight of arms sales to foreign countries staged a demonstration in the Rose Garden in front of the Knesset on Tuesday evening.

The Knesset building

Former IDF chief rabbi Avihai Rontzki dies aged 67

Rontski was amongst the founders of the Itamar settlement in 1984, and served for some years as its municipal chief rabbi.

Rabbi Avihai Rontski

200 National-Religious rabbis denounce IDF over 'liberal agenda'

The rabbis oppose religious men serving in close quarters to women, seeing it as contravening a religious lifestyle and even as endangering their religious identity.

IDF soldiers take part in battlefield maneuvers in preparation with potential war in the north.

WATCH: Did the IDF bow to religious pressure by removing women’s video?

The video has a voiceover by female soldiers repeating frequent claims by rabbis in the religious Zionist movement, such as that women have no physical strength.

A female IDF soldier shaking out a blanket during a week-long survival course for women in the infantry at an undisclosed location in Israel

Gabbay lambasts national-religious rabbis for extremism

Gabbay also castigated hard-line rabbis for their silence in the face of corruption by public officials on the Right.

Labor leader Avi Gabbay speaks at a faction meeting

Effort under way to block funds for helping religious girls to enlist

The campaign involves high-school girls getting photographed with a message calling on the Education Ministry “not to interfere” with their education.

Women in the IDF

Lapid: Rabbis aren’t part of IDF chain of command

The Yesh Atid chairman referenced conservative national-religious rabbis who are campaigning against mixed-gender service and enlistment of religious women.

Yesh Atid chairman Yair Lapid