Haredi news

Haredi protesters block Highway 4 near Ra'anana, Kfar Saba over draft dodger arrest

Police have deemed the demonstration illegal and are on the scene directing traffic to alternative routes, clearing the road, and restoring public order.

Ultra-Orthodox protester holding a sign reading "Either Haredi or the army" during an anti-draft protest on Highway 4, October 8, 2026.
Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters block Route 433 in an attempt to stop the detention of a draft dodger, August 28, 2026.

Haredi protest erupts on Route 433 after police arrest draft dodger suspected of stealing car

The Supreme Court convenes to maintain the freeze on the law limiting enforcement against haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft dodgers, July 28, 2026.

ITIM organization asks High Court to bar draft evaders from Rabbinate exam benefits

Protests against haredi draft in Jerusalem, October 30, 2025.

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


Shas, UTJ lawmakers fight to prevent court from killing haredi military exemption

The newest development in the crisis that ensued after the High Court's decision to make Israel draft a new law or else draft all the haredim.

Haredi man and IDF soldiers in Jerusalem.

Haredi conscription order won't change anything, because PM has chosen sides

Netanyahu has been on the haredim's side all along, so why does everyone think that the new High Court ruling would suddenly cause the government to collapse?

Netanyahu at nahal haredi base 311

Haredi, religious MKs up in arms over court's conscription order

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman described the ruling as “the worst and most wretched decision in the history of terrible decisions in the Jewish world.”

Haredi men at the IDF conscription base in Tel Aviv

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.