Ultra-Orthodox draft
'We do whatever they say': Yeshiva students defer to rabbis over response to IDF draft enforcement
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.”
'We will get them': Haredi Public Party leader vows to help fill IDF manpower shortage
Israel's attorney-general urges High Court to cut benefits for 110,000 draft evaders
IDF detains 42 Chabad Hassidic draft evaders arriving from New York at Ben-Gurion Airport
25,000 seminary girls recruited to fund haredi yeshivas amid draft crisis - report
KAN reported that 25,000 seminary girls participated in the phone-calling campaign and raised over NIS 11 million. Each girl was given a personal fundraising goal of NIS 8,400.
Netanyahu seeks to raise IDF budget, Lapid conditions support on canceling ‘corrupt’ haredi funds
Lapid noted that, in general, he supported transferring the funds to increase the defense establishment’s budget “because the IDF needs to be strengthened.”
Dozens of draft dodgers arrested at border crossings ahead of Rosh Hashanah Uman pilgrimage
The IDF confirmed that dozens of draft dodgers were arrested at border crossings over the past two days but did not provide an exact number or details about the detainees.
Ofer Winter rejects Goldknopf's demand for universal yeshiva student IDF draft exemption
Winter also called for Goldknopf to stop "deceiving the public," saying that "this system harms first and foremost the true Torah students."
High Court strikes down law shielding haredi yeshiva students from arrest over draft evasion
Justice Ofer Grosskopf froze the law on July 15, one day after it passed, and the full nine-justice panel maintained that freeze following a hearing later that month.
IDF reworking food procedures for military bases in effort to allow stricter kashrut standards
The change comes amid ongoing controversy over haredi (ultra-Orthodox) enlistment in the military and the term of service for religious soldiers.
Shas leader Arye Deri claims IDF prefers secular army, haredi soldiers are 'a big headache'
Naftali Bennett responded to Deri's comments, saying the Shas chairman is "harming IDF soldiers," adding that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is "spreading blood libels about IDF commanders."
Degel HaTorah leader Rabbi Lando says haredim only need to rely on God, not any prime minister
"We are not dependent on this person or that person, or on one prime minister or another, but only on the Creator of the world," he declared.
Six draft dodgers arrested at Ben-Gurion Airport after attempting to board plane illegally
According to the IAA, the six were caught in two separate incidents, with two of them caught by airport security in Terminal 1 and four caught in Terminal 3.
WATCH: Anti-draft protesters try to block roads into Tel Hashomer base, prevent haredi enlistment
Ya'akov Dori Street in Kiryat Ono, from Levi Eshkol Street to Shlomo Hamelech, is blocked in both directions, Israel Police said, urging drivers to take alternate routes.
