Ultra-Orthodox

Neither party has committed to joining only a Netanyahu-led coalition, and Shas’s spiritual leader has indicated that he would be open to joining a government led by Eisenkot.

The 3.25% threshold is the minimum percentage of the national vote a party needs to win to be allocated any seats in the next Knesset.

Israel’s next government can build public trust by easing reservists’ burdens, fighting crime and helping struggling families.

When a group of young men was asked whether some yeshiva students wanted to enlist but refrained because their rabbis forbade it, several agreed, with one answering, “of course.”

The idea that those who do not serve should not be fed has a pedigree — Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler — and a Jewish history that Israel, of all countries, should remember. The strategy never succeeds.

Israel’s crowded political field leaves voters weighing party leaders, broken promises, and competing priorities.

A community must prepare its children for the lives ahead, enable its families to achieve economic independence, and accept its share of responsibility for defending the country.

Moti Leitner says his Haredi Public Party is gaining support despite pressure to withdraw, and insists haredi men who do not study Torah should enlist.

In a recent poll by the Israel Democracy Institute, a proposition that the next government should draft haredim equally received the most support among a series of propositions.

"This is unacceptable. We need to preserve the world of Torah study because it has preserved us," the prime minister told Kol Barama during a Tuesday morning radio interview.