Haredi population in israel

Israel 'abandoned' haredi students, education reform needed, Aliza Bloch tells 'Post' - interview

She criticized the structure of Israel's education system, arguing that the government has ceded too much responsibility for decisions affecting students to bodies outside the public sector.

Former Beit Shemesh mayor and Unity Party member Aliza Bloch in an interview with 'The Jerusalem Post.'
 THE ZIONIST identity didn’t overcome the Jewish identity, nor did the opposite occur: An IDF soldier puts on tefillin.

National-religious men overrepresented in IDF reserves as haredim stay absent, IDI analysis finds

The students will be integrated into core technological units in the Military Intelligence Directorate and the IDF in general. Program opening ceremony via Walla.

IDF Atidim launches first dedicated engineering track for haredi, minority students

AN ISRAEL Day event on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan takes place last June. There is a significant increase in the number of Diaspora Jews who identify with Israel and show increased involvement in Jewish activity in their community, according to a JPPI survey cited by the writer.

Diaspora Jewry is not dying, it is changing - opinion


World Jewry more worried by Haredi than Arab growth in Jerusalem, study finds

Nonetheless, the study also found that most of Diaspora Jewry still wants the capital to remain Jewish in nature.

Alia Tunisi, a school teacher, and one of her students at Jerusalem's Hand in Hand Arab-Jewish bilingual school.

Liberal Jerusalem group plans ‘secular day of rage’

The major counter-protest comes after weeks of violent demonstrations by haredi extremists who blocked main traffic arteries in Israel in protest over draft warrants.

Anti-religious coercion protest in Jerusalem last month.

New IDF directorate established to increase numbers of haredi enlistees

“Whoever wants to learn Torah should continue to do so, we don’t want to carry out belligerent operations here, we want to help those interested in serving but who don’t have the right information."

IDF soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion are seen during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem

Grapevine: Aggression in Arad

According to several residents of Arad, the Ger Hassidim are trying to take over public buildings and want to put their hands on the city’s finances.

The violence in Arad began after a secular resident hung a poster besmirching the ultra- Orthodox residents of the city.

Haredi conscription order won't change anything, because PM has chosen sides

Netanyahu has been on the haredim's side all along, so why does everyone think that the new High Court ruling would suddenly cause the government to collapse?

Netanyahu at nahal haredi base 311

More Arabs join the work force - and not just in blue collar jobs

Tsofen encourages the establishment and development of hi-tech centers in major Arab cities and communities.

Three Ladies, Three Lattes: Beit Shemesh bullies

Any ideas for a more peaceful coexistence?

Beit Shemesh

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

Four ways to still advance Kotel plan

The non-Orthodox Jewish movements still have a few options open for progress on prayer at Judaism's holiest site.

An impromptu Orthodox prayer service at the pluralist section of the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

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