Military service

Housing for lone soldiers is essential to Israel’s wartime resilience - opinion

Housing for lone soldiers is more than shelter; it provides stability, community, and the support needed to endure wartime service.

|ByLIORA RUBINSTEIN
Over 150 lone soldiers join the IDF through Garin Tzabar Scouts program.
A group of ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked traffic and the light rail in Jerusalem demonstrating against a Haredi draft into the IDF. February 26, 2024.

The haredim do not have a credible argument for avoiding IDF service - opinion

Israel cannot sustain a system where one segment of society fights, pays taxes, and bleeds, while another group is draining the societys resorces without contributing in return.

|ByLOUIS LIBIN, MICHAEL J. SALAMON
A soldier from the IDF observers unit; illustrative.

IDF observers forced to endure harassment, poor conditions - report

Lack of sleep, according to the report, is the biggest problem that the observers, who are predominantly women, currently face.

|ByAVI ASHKENAZI , JERUSALEM POST STAFF
Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Lt.-Gen. Eyal Zamir. March 25, 2025.

Israel Katz publishes IDF chief's letter warning of manpower shortage amid haredi draft debate

Zamir sent the letter after attacks on the government for failing to push for haredim to draft into the IDF in large numbers.

|ByYONAH JEREMY BOB, MIRIAM SELA-EITAM

New app by Israel's Defense Ministry helps to navigate the graves of Israel's fallen forces

The application, "Memory Paths," allows individuals to navigate to graves in military cemeteries, giving users information about the fallen buried there.

MAY 10, 2024ByWALLA!
Israeli flags on graves of fallen soldiers in Mount Herzl Military Cemetery in Jerusalem, on May 9, 2024, ahead of Israeli Memorial Day.

How many Haredim can the IDF really absorb in near future? - Explainer

This week, the IDF also leaked a potential plan for having Haredim serve as border security in the West Bank without having to formally join the IDF.

APRIL 1, 2024ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Assuta Ashdod Public Hospital to Economics Ministry : Give hospital security 'preferred' status

"In recent years, we have all witnessed a significant increase in violence in hospitals towards the medical staff.”

OCTOBER 30, 2023ByJUDY SIEGEL-ITZKOVICH
‘I refuse to believe that people come to a clinic to start a fistfight. The problem is that we are understaffed, that the facilities are insufficient and that patients often have to wait far too long.’

Gallant: Service in IDF must remain a supreme value

IDF intelligence chief: Following intel. 'commandments' will avoid another surprise war.

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
RESERVE SOLDIERS, veterans, and activists protest against the intention of some reservists to refuse to serve, as part of the protest against the planned judicial overhaul, in Tel Aviv earlier this year.