Haredi population in israel

Likud MK Kallner opposes criminal arrests for haredi draft evaders, backs economic sanctions

Kallner, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, told 103FM that he does not think arresting yeshiva students is 'the right way.'

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An Israeli soldier guard as young men gathered during a demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against Israel's military draft on June 17, 2026 outside the Beit Lid military base in Kfar Yona, Israel. The conscription of young ultra-Orthodox men into the military, from which they were long exempt.
A haredi man looks on as traffic builds at Hemed Interchange on Highway 1 amid ultra-Orthadox anti-draft protests, June 24, 2026.

Following hours of haredi draft protests, Israeli highways reopen to traffic

Protests cause heavy traffic on 29 major roads • Social media footage shows protesters and secular citizens in violent physical altercations • MKs Goldknopf, Malkieli attended protests

|ByALON HACHMON, AVI SOLOMON, AARON GLICK
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is seen walking past haredi lawmaker Yitzhak Goldknopf, at the Prime Minister’s Office in 2023.

Goldknopf protests 'exclusion' of haredi West Bank communities from budget in letter to Netanyahu

"How is it possible that the budgets, development, and benefits that reach the other communities never reach the ultra-Orthodox population centers in Judea and Samaria?" Goldknopf asked.

|ByANNA BARSKY
FEMALE IDF field intelligence collection soldiers S, D, and V in the Syrian buffer zone.

Female IDF soldiers barred from entering base on religious grounds - report

The soldiers, some seven officers and reservists, all in uniform, were met by commanders from the ultra-Orthodox Netzach Yehuda battalion who forbade them from entering.

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Haredi rabbis back vaccine to return to religious normality - analysis

Health Ministry spokesman says there is ‘huge demand’ for vaccine among eligible members of ultra-Orthodox community

DECEMBER 27, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
Chief Rabbi David Lau receives the coronavirus vaccine at Shaare Tzedek Medical Center in Jerusalem

Rabbi Gershon Edelstein gets vaccinated, calls on public to do the same

Rabbi Edelstein, 97, heads the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and serves as leader of the Degel HaTorah political party.

DECEMBER 22, 2020ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
Rabbi Gershon Edelstein

After peace abroad, Israel needs peace at home - opinion

Does our government invest even a fraction of what it invests in peace with Arab states in the reconciliation that is needed between Israelis and the different sectors that make up this country?

DECEMBER 17, 2020ByYAAKOV KATZ
AN ISRAELI poses with Emiratis in Dubai last week. It’s time to pay attention to Arabs who live here, too.

How will the ultra-Orthodox community respond to coronavirus vaccines?

Although ultra-Orthodox Israelis do in general get standard vaccines, the new coronavirus vaccine may not gain automatic traction in the community or its leadership.

DECEMBER 15, 2020ByJEREMY SHARON
WILL PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu turn a blind eye to mass haredi evasion and risk allowing coronavirus to spread again and set off a third wave of infection in the country?

Biton to ultra-Orthodox IDF soldiers: You are modern Maccabees

Minister Michael Biton also said that the Defense Ministry intends to expand the program for ultra-Orthodox draft.

DECEMBER 7, 2020ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Minister Michael Biton, Netzach Yehuda Association CEO Yossi Levy, and Jewish-American businessman and philanthropist David Hager.

Bnei Brak infection rate plummets

The city has had more than 25,000 infections, and 143 have died from COVID-19. But now, instead of being in the top 10 for infection rates, it is No. 93.

NOVEMBER 15, 2020ByGREER FAY CASHMAN, JEREMY SHARON
An ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman crosses a street with her children in Bnei Brak, a town badly affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and which Israel declared a "restricted zone" due to its high rate of infections, near Tel Aviv, Israel April 5, 2020

The Covid-19 Fertility Crisis: A Short Story

A peek into a possible future blighted by the coronavirus

OCTOBER 25, 2020ByBRIAN BLUM
Haredi men and their children protest government restrictions barring them from reaching Mount Meron on Lag Ba’omer, in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood on May 10, 2020.

Haredim only make half the salary of others in hi-tech industry

The average salary of a haredi tech employee is NIS 10,830 a month, compared to an average monthly wage of NIS 22,479 among non-haredi tech workers.

AUGUST 28, 2020ByCELIA JEAN
Avratech director Aaron Safrai (right) is pictured with ultra-Orthodox Jewish students learning computer programming at Avratech's Jerusalem offices

Timora: Providing an alternative to high-risk religious teens

The Timora organization was founded 20 years ago to respond to the needs of teenagers from the national-religious sector who dropped out of yeshiva high schools.

AUGUST 12, 2020BySTEVE LINDE
A group of Timora students playing music at a residential village

Is the coronavirus proliferation in Israel the fault of the haredi?

Why this apparent contempt for Jews with side locks, black coats and hats?

MAY 2, 2020ByWALTER BINGHAM
Israeli police officers take out ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, as part of an effort to enforce lockdown in order to prevent the spread of the coronavirus, April 2, 2020.