Haredi population in israel

Female IDF soldiers barred from entering base on religious grounds - report

The soldiers, some seven officers and reservists, all in uniform, were met by commanders from the ultra-Orthodox Netzach Yehuda battalion who forbade them from entering.

FEMALE IDF field intelligence collection soldiers S, D, and V in the Syrian buffer zone.
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Jewish sector has been protesting over the attempts to draft young haredi men into the military.

Study shows how Israel's economy funnels money to ultra-Orthodox families through benefit programs

 HAREDI YESHIVA students

High Court: Israeli gov't must explain why it funds haredi schools without core studies

IDF armored and infantry reserve units in military training in Golan Heights before heading South to the Gaza Strip, October 8, 2023.

'We have prayer, we are serving, we are dying': IDF reservists frustrated over haredi draft issue


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

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.

State Attorney bans haredi protests outside IDF officers' homes

The ban comes following an aggressive campaign by haredi extremists against Orthodox men who enlist in the IDF.

Haredi extermists protest against recruitment of Orthodox men into the army.

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, Arab populations grow in Jerusalem as overall growth declines

Approximately 18,000 residents moved out of Jerusalem in 2015, while 8,200 ultra-Orthodox and 7,800 Arabs moved in.

A haredi in Jerusalem

Spitting, harassment a matter of course in Beit Shemesh neighborhood

Non-haredi residents face threats when walking through Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet neighborhood.

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men praying in Ramat Beit Shemesh

Haredi extremists burn haredi IDF soldier in effigy... again

The effigy was complete with an IDF uniform and equipment, a beard and tzitzit, and was burned alongside numerous Israeli flags in the festive bonfires.

Haredi extremists burn haredi IDF soldier in effigy

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