Haredi news
A-G to High Court: Gov’t has not adopted economic sanctions plan against haredi draft dodgers
The Attorney-General warned the High Court that the government failed to plan for revoking benefits from Haredi draft evaders, despite data showing financial sanctions increased enlistment rates.
Supreme Court decision on baby autopsy, Trump’s Greenland texts under scrutiny
The Haredi Debate: Where do we stand?
Haredi protesters block Jerusalem highway in protest against draft-dodger arrest orders
Haredi IDF enlistment targets not being met, report finds
Defense Ministry, IDF sluggish in enforcing terms of draft exemptions.
Haredim protest in Jerusalem over proposed draft law
The demonstrators blocked the entrance to the city for close to two hours until Border Police units moved in to disperse the protestors using water cannons and skunk sprays.
State agrees to cancel gender-separate tour guide courses for Haredim
“This is the beginning of this struggle, and we have our first victory in hand,” said Israeli Women’s Network director Michal Gera Margaliot.
Haredi population tops one million
There is a record low in the poverty rate for the Haredi sector, having diminished from 58% in 2005, reflecting increased integration of Haredi men and women into the work force in recent years.
New civil service recruits will be Haredi under new guidlines
Some seven percent of the workforce is Haredi, but although no hard statistics are available, it is thought that the representation of Haredim in the civil service is exceedingly low.
Who will lead the Haredim?
The future of Haredim after the passing of Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman.
OBITUARY: Rabbi Shteinman, Haredi 'leader of the generation,' dies at 104
Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman was the long-time leader of the non-Hassidic Ashkenazi Haredi community.
London Orthodox teacher fired for living with boyfriend wins legal case
Zelda de Groen told a tribunal that school managers subjected her to a “humiliating” hour-long interview.
Haredi rabbi bans new NIS 50 banknote featuring poet who married a non-Jew
Rabbi Ben Tzion Motzpi, a respected and highly conservative Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) rabbi from the Sephardi community, gave these rulings recently in response to questions submitted to his website.
The naked truth
As elections approach, anything can happen.
