Haredi news

Supreme Court decision on baby autopsy, Trump’s Greenland texts under scrutiny

The Jerusalem Post's must-listen news roundup with Shifra Jacobs—the top stories, clear and concise.

Caps with slogans supporting Greenland are on display in a clothing store in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 20, 2026.
Jewish men pray at the tomb of Rabbi Nachman of Breslov in Uman, ahead of the Jewish holiday of Rosh Hashanah, October 1, 2024

The Haredi Debate: Where do we stand?

Police declared the haredi protests illegal.

Haredi protesters block Jerusalem highway in protest against draft-dodger arrest orders

 Ultra orthodox Jewish men protest at construction site in Yehud, claiming the construction site is on Jewish graves, on May 27, 2025.

Haredi Jews protest construction site over alleged ancient burial ground


Haredi, religious MKs up in arms over court's conscription order

Health Minister Yaakov Litzman described the ruling as “the worst and most wretched decision in the history of terrible decisions in the Jewish world.”

Haredi men at the IDF conscription base in Tel Aviv

Please go to your seat, sir

Finally, El Al staff are forbidden to collaborate with haredi gender segregation.

PLENTY OF room to sit, but no room for discrimination

Shameful day for Israel as it freezes plan for pluralistic prayer site at Kotel

Netanyahu’s office made sure to issue a statement that the cabinet decision on Sunday was not to cancel the deal but was merely to freeze it. This is a sham.

THE WESTERN WALL. Some 47% of left-wing respondents said they would not agree to a partition of the Old City, compared to 94% on the Right and 78% of centrists.

The shot heard around the world

The Jerusalem Post

Haredi parties advance proposal to nix egalitarian section of Western Wall

MK Rachel Azaria: "We must not lose US Jewry, and this proposal is a threat to this support.”

Reform Jews pray at new Western Wall egalitarian section

I have a new hero this week

Our goal must be to create a society in which my new hero can walk with pride on the streets of his neighborhood – and we must take the necessary steps to create that reality.

A TOLDOT AHARON Hassid (right) and another haredi man escort the son of former MK Dov Lipman, who is a soldier, away from an anti-Zionist mob in the capital’s Mea She’arim neighborhood on Friday.

Haredi rabbi who threatened IDF general released to house arrest

Iram was indicted last week for threatening IDF Maj.-Gen. Manpower Chief Moti Almoz for his part in drafting haredim into the army.

Haredi extremists burn haredi IDF soldier in effigy

Haredi parties threaten coalition crisis over construction work on Shabbat

Last August, construction work on infrastructure in Tel Aviv on Saturdays became a severe point of contention between haredi parties United Torah Judaism and Shas and Transport Minister Israel Katz.

PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu and Health Minister Ya’acov Litzman unveil the plaque for Tzrifin’s Yitzhak Shamir Medical Center yesterday, along with members of the Shamir family.

Haredi extremist indicted for attacking, threatening senior IDF general

The protesters distributed fliers comparing Almoz to Hitler and military service to Auschwitz.

Haredi men celebrating IDF desertion.

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