Draft

Former hostage Nimrod Cohen announces return to IDF: 'Didn't do enough during my mandatory service'

"I didn't really do my service, the way I see it. I served for ten months until I was kidnapped," Cohen said in an interview for N12's Ulpan Shishi.

Released Israeli hostage Nimrod Cohen at the funeral of Israeli soldier Staff Sgt. Daniel Oz, at the military cemetery in Kfar Saba.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish sector has been protesting over the attempts to draft young haredi men into the military.

IDF warns of manpower crisis if ultra-Orthodox Jews not drafted by March

 Ukrainian military soldiers rest at a position on a front line, amid Russia's attack on Ukraine, near the city of Kostiantynivka in Donetsk region, Ukraine July 5, 2025

How I was nearly drafted into Ukraine's war: 'Post' reporter's account of Ukraine’s manpower crisis

 Shas faction meeting in the Israeli parliament on December 8, 2025.

Who's pulling the strings? Haredi parties draft bill tactics ahead of Iran war - analysis


Israel arrests yeshiva student for draft dodging, extremists to protest

Yeshiva students are required to declare "Torah study is his occupation" at draft offices in order to receive a service deferral.

 Haredim protest in Jerusalem against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox youth into the army.

Israelis overwhelmingly support transport on Shabbat, haredi IDF draft

More than 7 in 10 Israelis want Shabbat transportation while nearly 8 in 10 support an IDF draft for yeshiva students, according to the recent Hiddush annual religion and state index for 2023.

Haredi man and IDF soldiers in Jerusalem.

How will IDF deal with Israeli high school grads' refusal to serve? - analysis

The event had been technically canceled in an internal battle between the high school's principal and its Parents' Association.

Young Israelis arrive to the Israeli army recruitment center at Tel Hashomer, outside of Tel Aviv on March 17, 2020.

Knesset's summer recess overshadowed by Conscription Law debate - analysis

Benny Gantz's outreach to the haredi sector is valuable as the ultra-Orthodox parties have threatened to take down the government if the new draft bill is not passed immediately.

 Haredim protest in Jerusalem against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox youth into the army.

Coalition divided on IDF conscription, rejects blanket yeshiva exemptions

Netanyahu has reportedly asked the haredi parties to soften their requests for a draft bill.

 United Torah Judaism leader Yitzhak Goldknopf and Otzma Yehudit chair Itamar Ben-Gvir with MKs from the likely coalition, November 21, 2022.

Nasrallah: Haredi draft law will be 'major blow' to IDF

Nasrallah warned Israel "you too will go back to the stone age if you go to war with Lebanon."

 HEZBOLLAH LEADER Hassan Nasrallah addresses his supporters via video, marking Martyrs’ Day in Beirut’s southern suburbs, in November. Nasrallah is a great student of Israeli society and current events.

Gallant to new recruits: I will not let any harm be done to IDF

"Together with the chief of staff, I am working every day to find the way to unite everyone," the defense minister told new recruits at Tel Hashomer.

 Defense Minister Yoav Gallant seen at the IDF induction center in Tel Aviv on August 13, 2023

New IDF recruits start service in shadow of judicial reform debate

Maj.-Gen. Yaniv Asur: We have much more in common and which connects and unites us, along with love and kinship, than there is which separates and divides us.

Young Israelis arrive to the Israeli army recruitment center at Tel Hashomer, outside of Tel Aviv on March 17, 2020.

High Court rejects petition to draft haredim

As the haredi draft law expires, controversy over military conscription intensifies, with arguments of discrimination and a cabinet plan for a new draft bill.

 A SOLDIER and haredi man pray at the Western Wall in Jerusalem

Draft haredi men immediately, Brothers in Arms, parents demand in letter to defense minister

Movement for Quality of Government appeals to Supreme Court against gov't decision not to enforce haredi conscription.

 MEMBERS OF the Brothers in Arms reservist movement meet with the media in Tel Aviv, in March.