Yeshiva students

Knesset passes contentious haredi-backed bill to enshrine Torah study in Israel's Basic Law

The haredi-backed Basic Law passed its final Knesset votes after weeks of coalition tensions and warnings that it could encourage draft evasion.

MK Yitzhak Goldknopf (United Torah Judaism) attends a House committee meeting at the Knesset, July 12, 2026.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu arrives at Knesset plenum to vote in favor of Basic: Law Torah Study bill, shaking hands with Degel Hatorah leader MK Moshe Gafni, Wednesday, July 1, 2026.

Israel's hysterical Torah study bill will backfire on the ultra-Orthodox - opinion

Haredi anti-draft protesters block Highway 4 near Bnei Brak denouncing the detention of a draft dodger, February 9, 2026.

Laundering human capital: The reckless amnesty bills and their debasement of the Torah - opinion

People walk past election posters for the upcoming elections in Jerusalem on October 24, 2022.

Israel cannot afford Netanyahu’s capitulation to haredi demands - editorial


War, Talmud, and agriculture - opinion

No one expects an unqualified yeshiva student to show up on the frontline and shed his blood. Instead, they could shed some sweat.

 VOLUNTEERS HELP in a raspberry greenhouse at Moshav Avnei Eitan on the Golan Heights, earlier this month.

'Jewish students are hiding who they are' as antisemitism surges

Yeshiva University president Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman on the surge of hate on US campuses.

'THERE ARE many good people in the US and in higher education.' Yeshiva University students and faculty marching for Israel.

Yeshiva students light 138 Hanukkah menorahs in honor of hostages

Students at the Erlau Hasidic Yeshiva in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood have arranged 138 Hanukkah menorahs in honor of the hostages who cannot light their menorahs this year.

 Erlau ceremony, light candles in honor of hostages

Yeruham yeshiva mourns Sgt. Yakir Shinkolevsky, Capt. Eitan Fish

"We will continue to build, plant, grow, and unite as a people because that was your way."

 Sgt. Yakir Shinkolevsky and Capt. Eitan Fish.

Mourning the loss of two soldiers who fell in battle on Monday

Sergeant Yakir Yedidya Shankolevsky, 21 years old, and Captain Eitan Fish, 23 years old, were killed in battle in Gaza. 

   Sergeant Yakir Yedidya Shankolevsky, who fell in battle on Monday night

As civilians, banks, and companies pool aid for IDF, the gov't has worried about funding yeshivas

In the days following Hamas’ devastating slaughter of Israeli civilians, the government held meetings to discuss how to get government funding to yeshivas.

 HAREDI YESHIVA students

Umbrella for gap-year programs in Israel says more than 5,000 participants are safe

A spokesperson for Masa Israel Journey to the JTA that all of its 5,700 participants had been relocated away from areas "under direct danger."

Rockets are seen being fired into Israel from the Gaza Strip, on May 12, 2021.

OECD to Israel: Cut back on financial support for Yeshiva students

OCED's report highlighted concerns over the underrepresentation of certain groups, particularly within the haredi and Arab populations.

 HAREDI YESHIVA students

Israelis overwhelmingly support transport on Shabbat, haredi IDF draft

More than 7 in 10 Israelis want Shabbat transportation while nearly 8 in 10 support an IDF draft for yeshiva students, according to the recent Hiddush annual religion and state index for 2023.

Haredi man and IDF soldiers in Jerusalem.

Israel to indict 'Jake Segal' for tricking women into sex, relationships

The so-called "Yeshiva Deceiva" was arrested on August 22 by Jerusalem police.

 "Jake Segal" was not who the women he seduced online thought he was.