Haredi demographics

Equality requires universal draft, participation in economy and workforce, MK Liberman says

Ultra-Orthodox populations must join not just the military but the workforce if Israel wants to have a sustainable economic future, Liberman said at the Ogen Conference.

Avigdor Liberman speaks at a Knesset meeting during the first week of the Israeli Parliament's winter session, October 27, 2025
 HAREDI JEWS walk in the streets of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem, earlier this month.

Coalition, opposition spar as preliminary vote on haredi daycare bill nears

 ULTRA-ORTHODOX men protest against the haredi draft, in Jerusalem last week.

A country at a crossroads: The issue of Haredi IDF service post-October 7 - analysis

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Post-October 7: What does a haredi IDF draft look like?


Toward a divided city?

Haredi man in Jerusalem

The reinvention of Jewish space

Israel’s imminent emergence as the Jewish nation’s demographic center will revolutionize Jewish history.

Hebrew University’s Sergio DellaPergola, the world’s senior expert on Jewish demographics

Head of US Reform Movement rejects new Western Wall negotiations with PM

“Those negotiations led to a true compromise, and to start again and pretend that what has taken place hasn’t happened is naive,” said the rabbi.

Rabbi Rick Jacobs, president of the Union for Reform Judaism, delivers the keynote address at the URJ biennial convention in Orlando, Florida, November 7

Temech’s Jerusalem conference helps haredi women open small businesses

The conference was geared toward women who are running businesses or seeking to establish one.

ULTRA-ORTHODOX WOMEN network at the Jerusalem International Convention Center yesterday

Haredim ramp up attacks on police in Mea She’arim

Over the past four years, extremists have been waging a campaign of incitement against ultra-Orthodox men enlisting in the IDF in order to delegitimize and halt the growing number of such enlistees.

ULTRA-ORTHODOX MEN clash with police in the capital’s Mea She’arim neighborhood yesterday.

Unity is not about uniformity

A young Jewish leader’s vision on communal challenges.

A secular and religious Jew walk arm in arm as a celebration of Jewish unity

Liberman praises IDF service by religious women, pans Orthodox dodgers

Israeli defense ministers says practice of permanent Torah study by Orthodox Jews at expense of army service, employment reflects "fake reality."

CARACAL BATTALION soldiers march in the Negev in 2014.

Haredi schoolbooks promote isolation, suspicion of outside world, says NGO

The report notes that tolerance and respect towards “the individual other” is expressed in haredi school textbooks.

Haredi students in classroom

Candidly Speaking: Nine challenges confronting Israel

We have never been so self-reliant or as powerful as we are today, and in as optimal a position to defend ourselves.

A woman holding an Israeli flag

The ultra-Orthodox community's new trend: From isolationism to involvement

In 2017, we have to ask: Who is ultra-Orthodox? What are the boundaries of ultra-Orthodox society? What are the boundaries of ultra-Orthodox identity within the Israeli sphere?

A haredi man embraces a youth from the Orthodox community who has joined the army