The draft of the law set graduated conscription targets for yeshiva students over five years, with a gradual annual ...

Defense Minister Katz has yet to hold a discussion on 'expanding the basket of enforcement tools' such as sanctions, court ...

Bill by outgoing Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair would revoke draft-dodgers' driver's licenses, ban them from ...

According to the Attorney General’s Office, it is critical to “expand personal enforcement measures” and deny economic ...

Legally, part of the issue is that there is no set categorical distinction for haredim in the matter of military conscription ...

Knesset lawmakers oust Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair Yuli Edelstein, who calls his dismissal 'the final nail in ...

While Israeli Jews are subject to a mandatory draft at age 18 — and regular reserve duty for decades afterward — an exception is made for the growing number of haredi Orthodox Israelis, who ...

The Halachic Left is one of several new Jewish protest groups that have formed after Oct. 7, 2023, to argue for a reclaiming ...

Two days before Tisha B’Av, the Israeli scholar Tomer Persico warned that the country was facing another destruction of ...

Despite their philosophical or practical differences with Haredim, Jews of all kinds have been motivated, inspired and moved by the Haredi commitment to core Jewish religious values.

Police officers use water cannons as haredi Orthodox Jewish men block a main highway during a protest against drafting into the Israeli army on June 2, 2024 in Bnei Brak, Israel. (Amir Levy/Getty ...