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


#NotMeToo?

Haredi papers ignore International Women’s Day

The front page of a recent issue of Yated Neeman, a haredi newspaper in English

Haredi IDF enlistment targets not being met, report finds

Defense Ministry, IDF sluggish in enforcing terms of draft exemptions.

Israel police carry a haredi protestor during an anti-conscription demonstration in Jerusalem, March 2018

Haredim protest in Jerusalem over proposed draft law

The demonstrators blocked the entrance to the city for close to two hours until Border Police units moved in to disperse the protestors using water cannons and skunk sprays.

A young haredi boy wearing a "Jude" star takes part in a protest against mandatory IDF conscription, March 2018

State agrees to cancel gender-separate tour guide courses for Haredim

“This is the beginning of this struggle, and we have our first victory in hand,” said Israeli Women’s Network director Michal Gera Margaliot.

Haredi man in Jerusalem

Haredi population tops one million

There is a record low in the poverty rate for the Haredi sector, having diminished from 58% in 2005, reflecting increased integration of Haredi men and women into the work force in recent years.

INCREASED INTEGRATION of Haredim into the workforce has resulted in a record-low poverty rate in the Haredi sector.

New civil service recruits will be Haredi under new guidlines

Some seven percent of the workforce is Haredi, but although no hard statistics are available, it is thought that the representation of Haredim in the civil service is exceedingly low.

Haredi man in Jerusalem

Who will lead the Haredim?

The future of Haredim after the passing of Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews gather during the funeral ceremony of prominent spiritual leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman, who died on Tuesday at the age of 104, in Bnei Brak

OBITUARY: Rabbi Shteinman, Haredi 'leader of the generation,' dies at 104

Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman was the long-time leader of the non-Hassidic Ashkenazi Haredi community.

Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman

London Orthodox teacher fired for living with boyfriend wins legal case

Zelda de Groen told a tribunal that school managers subjected her to a “humiliating” hour-long interview.

A general view is seen of the London skyline from Canary Wharf in London, Britain, October 19, 2016

Haredi rabbi bans new NIS 50 banknote featuring poet who married a non-Jew

Rabbi Ben Tzion Motzpi, a respected and highly conservative Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) rabbi from the Sephardi community, gave these rulings recently in response to questions submitted to his website.

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