Haredi

Millions of Israelis, including 900,000 children, live in poverty, NII report for 2024 shows

Poverty rates remain especially high among Arab and haredi populations, who together account for 65.1% of people in poverty, nearly double their share of the population.

|ByAVIHAI CHIIM
ABOUT 41% of Jerusalem families suffer from poverty, compared to about 20% in the rest of the country.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his cabinet seen at the Knesset plenum, June 11, 2025

Outcome of state budget vote uncertain amid coalition crisis over haredi draft

By law, if the state budget is not approved in all three readings by the end of March, when the fiscal year closes, the Knesset will automatically dissolve, and elections will be called.

|ByKESHET NEEV
A PLENUM session at the Knesset.

2026 budget reading puts government at risk, after months of ideological sparring - analysis

If the vote is postponed, or if the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties choose not to support it and it falls, then for all intents and purposes the government will fall with it.

|ByHERB KEINON
Rain in Bnei Brak

Haredim in Israel’s periphery show distinct lifestyle gaps from center, Shoresh Institute finds

The research studies how the accelerating migration of haredi households out of central Israel intersects with transportation, spending patterns, and fertility decisions.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN

Tensions with ultra-Orthodox are second most divisive conflict in Israeli society, poll finds

The poll also shows how 83% of Israeli Jews support ensuring freedom of religion, namely, the freedom for both secular and religious citizens to live according to their own worldview. 

SEPTEMBER 12, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
An illustrative image of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Israeli Jews near a sign for an IDF recruiting office.

Haredi faction protests military draft, block Highway 4 in Bnei Brak area

The protests, led by hardline political organization Peleg Yerushalmi, were declared illegal by the police, who said they would begin dispersing the crowd shortly.

SEPTEMBER 11, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Haredi protesters demonstrating against the IDF draft law blocking roads, September 11, 2025.

Israeli opposition lawmaker: Coalition ‘is reviving irrelevant 2022 text to appease ultra-Orthodox’

MK Efrat Rayten Marom warns that the proposed draft law ignores army needs as the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee intensifies the debate.

SEPTEMBER 10, 2025ByGABRIEL COLODRO/THE MEDIA LINE
The Democrats MK Efrat Rayten at a conference of the Israel Bar Association in Tel Aviv, September 3, 2024.

Haredi draft law revisions: Knesset FADC discusses reducing exemption age from 26

The Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee wrapped three days of stormy talks on the haredi draft bill, focusing on whether to lower the exemption age of 26.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2025ByKESHET NEEV
A meeting to discuss updated sections of the controversial haredi (ultra-Orthadox) conscription law took place on Tuesday at the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on September 9th, 2025.

Haredi donors: Stop funding division, support national service and unity within Israel - comment

Instead of promoting division, funding one population to sit while another is sent repeatedly to Gaza and the West Bank, philanthropy could promote love of Israel.

SEPTEMBER 9, 2025ByZVIKA KLEIN
Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack at Ramot junction, near the entrance to Jerusalem, September 8, 2025.

High Court: Haredi students with unsettled military status won't get national insurance discounts

Yeshiva students who have not settled their status with the military or procured a valid exemption will not be eligible for relevant discounts on national insurance.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2025BySARAH BEN-NUN
Haredim protest against the IDF draft outside Tel Hashomer recruitment base, April 28. 2025.

Israeli plan to create temporary hanger in Moldova for Uman travellers collapses

The NIS 10 million deal between Israel and Moldova fell apart as 60,000 hasidim were preparing for an annual Rosh Hashanah pilgrimage.

SEPTEMBER 8, 2025ByMATHILDA HELLER
Jewish men in the street during Tikkun HaKlali near the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, on eve of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, September 15, 2023.

WATCH: Soldier describes deadly Jerusalem terror attack, stopping terrorists

The terrorists boarded the Line 62 bus in Jerusalem, which operates across the city, and began shooting at passengers. 

SEPTEMBER 8, 2025ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Police and rescue personnel at the scene of a terror attack at Ramot junction, near the entrance to Jerusalem, September 8, 2025.

Bismuth promotes ‘emergency regulation’ for temporary solution on haredi draft - report

Enforcement sanctions on haredi draft dodgers would be frozen throughout the period of the emergency regulation, which would last for a year, Walla reported.

SEPTEMBER 1, 2025ByKESHET NEEV
MK Boaz Bismuth leads the lobby for releasing the remaining hostages in the Gaza Strip, at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, January 9, 2024.

Grapevine, August 29, 2025: Keep kids away from Uman

Movers and shakers in Israeli society.

AUGUST 29, 2025ByGREER FAY CASHMAN
(R-L) Ami and Tzvia Zoglobek with Shlomi Mayor Gavriel Na’aman; Lee Kabzetz, deputy head of human resources in the Zoglobek Group; and some of the children who received new school bags.