Hareidi draft

Why Gadi Eisenkot is rejecting the haredi political embrace that once helped Netanyahu win

POLITICAL AFFAIRS: Yitzhak Yosef’s embrace – and Eisenkot's effort to distance himself from it – reflects Israel's shifting political landscape.

|ByHERB KEINON
Amid reports that the Shas Party could be willing to sit with him in government, Yashar Party head Gadi Eisenkot did not rule out that option entirely. Here, Eisenkot attends the Sagi Laws for Equality Confrence at the Peres Center in Jaffa earlier this week.
MK's attend a plenum session and a vote on a bill to split the duties and powers currently held by the attorney general between two separate officeholders, at the assembly hall of the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, July 15, 2026.

Israel's next government must answer the real 'day after' question - opinion

On October 27, Israelis will go to the polls in Israel’s first post-war election.

|ByYOHANAN PLESNER
Chief of the General Staff of the Israel Defense Forces, Eyal Zamir, arrives to attend a wreath laying ceremony at Warsaw Ghetto Square at Yad Vashem on April 14, 2026 in Jerusalem, Israel.

IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir has a duty to warn the government about draft evasion - editorial

Active-duty generals, as a rule, should stay out of politics, but every rule has its exception.

|ByJPOST EDITORIAL
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu attends a Knesset vote on a bill to freeze arrests of haredi draft evaders, in Jerusalem, July 14, 2026

Knesset votes to freeze arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft evaders amid IDF manpower crisis

Bill passes 58-54 despite legal warnings, IDF opposition • Netanyahu heckled by opposition lawmakers shouting 'disgrace' before leaving plenum ahead of the vote

|ByKESHET NEEV

Rabbi draws ire after stating IDF soldiers should be viewed 'like garbage collecters'

In a post made on X, a man can be heard asking Rabbi Bunim Schreiber “What is the right attitude towards soldiers on the battlefield, gratitude and hishtadlut?"

NOVEMBER 20, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
Ultra Orthodox Jews walk next to a pile of garbage in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood on January 5, 2016

A surge in haredi enlistment: Over 2,000 men to Join IDF amid war

Recent data from Tatia revealed that 68% of haredim support military enlistment, while 60% believe that the haredi community should contribute to the state, especially during wartime.

OCTOBER 21, 2023ByZVIKA KLEIN
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