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Haredi protesters clash with Israel police over arrests of draft-refusers

News Pesach Benson -
Police shut down sections of central Israel’s Route 4 in both directions near Bnei Brak on Wednesday morning after...

For first time, Haredi soldiers of Hasmonean Brigade operate in Lebanon

News Pesach Benson -
For the first time, Israel’s Orthodox (Haredi) Hasmonean Brigade is operating in southern Lebanon, conducting targeted raids, the Israel...

Knesset committee authorizes call-up of 430,000 reservists amid Haredi draft dispute

News Pesach Benson -
An Israeli parliamentary committee narrowly approved on Monday the extension of emergency powers to summon reservists, authorising the military...

Rabbis reject Israeli army service, arrests for draft refusal likely in September

News Pesach Benson -
The Israeli Defence Forces completed the distribution of 54,000 first-order draft summonses to Orthodox men, the army said on...

Transparently disgraceful

Featured Articles Michael Kuttner -
There are times when a situation is so clearly disgraceful that silence is no longer an honest option. We are...

Shas quits Netanyahu government, stops short of toppling it

News Pesach Benson -
The Orthodox Shas party quit the Israeli government on Wednesday, but a decision not to immediately topple the government gives...

Religious party quits Netanyahu government over army exemptions

News Pesach Benson -
Israel’s United Torah Judaism (UTJ) party announced it is leaving both the government and Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s ruling...

Survey reveals surge in israeli support for orthodox military conscription

Have You Heard? Pesach Benson -
The Israeli public is shifting decisively in favour of integrating Orthodox Jews into military service, according to a survey...

Israeli Air Force marks graduation of first Haredi technicians

News Pesach Benson -
In a step towards integrating Orthodox men into military service, the Israeli Air Force held a graduation ceremony on...

Orthodox Israelis clash at army office

News Pesach Benson -
Hundreds of Haredim — Orthodox Jewish Israelis — clashed with police outside an army recruiting centre in the Tel...

60% of Hamas terrorists killed or injured, says Israeli defence minister

News Pesach Benson -
Israeli Defence Minister Yoav Gallant told Israeli lawmakers on Wednesday that the Israel Defence Forces have killed or injured...

Israel’s Supreme Court orders stop to yeshivah funding for haredim required to enlist in IDF

News JNS -
Israel’s Supreme Court on Thursday issued an interim order prohibiting the government from providing stipends to some haredi, or...

‘Storm over ultra-Orthodox recruitment won’t topple Netanyahu’

Featured Articles David Isaac -
The issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) army enlistment reached a boiling point this week as the Netanyahu government failed, despite...

Neturei Karta

Featured Articles Jeremy Rosen -
At demonstrations against Israel in New York, marching with our enemies (as they do at Israel parades) was a...

Israeli orthodox Jews take up arms, form civil defence groups

News David Isaac -
The Oct. 7 Hamas massacre has led to a societal shift in thinking when it comes to personal defence...

Israel’s new government must not abandon Jerusalem

Featured Articles Efraim Inbar -
The transfer of the Jerusalem Affairs Ministry to a Haredi party (UTJ) constitutes the abandonment of Jerusalem to non-Zionist...

Gantz tells Netanyahu the Israeli people will make his new government fail

News Gil Tanenbaum - TPS -
Outgoing Minister of Defence Benny Gantz rebuked Benjamin Netanyahu and his incoming new coalition government (should it be formed)...

War of words breaks out over start of Kashrut reform in Israel: MK calls Haredim ‘racist and ignorant’

News Gil Tanenbaum - TPS -
On Sunday, the first stage of a set of reforms on kashrut certification in Israel as promoted by Religious...

Alternative universe

Featured Articles Michael Kuttner -
Michael Kuttner: “We live in a fantasy world, a world of illusions. The great task in life is to find reality.”

Biden and Israel’s unsteady right

Featured Articles Caroline Glick - JNS -
Caroline Glick: The Blue and White-Likud clash over Iran policy, like their clash over Israel’s national and strategic interests in Judea and Samaria, makes it clear that the farcical unity government has run its course.

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