Yeshiva students

Deri and Lapid clash over IDF draft law, sanctions on ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students

Aryeh Deri responded to the Attorney-General's discussion on the High Court of Justice consideration over the draft law and the plan to toughen sanctions against yeshiva students who don't enlist.

A view of the Shas party offices in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025
 Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, June 07, 2025; illustrative.

IDF soldiers killed due to yeshivas 'neglecting Torah study', former chief rabbi claims

 A yeshiva school bus drives through Broolyn on Sept. 12, 2022.

School vouchers would expand nationwide under federal proposal cheered by Orthodox groups

 An Orthodox Jewish boy walks by a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City, April 9, 2019.

NY state budget weakens oversight over yeshiva learning in blow to secular education advocates


Justice Kagan speculates about publicly funded yeshivas

Kagan’s line of questioning comes as New York recently closed multiple yeshivas that were not abiding by a state law requiring all schools to adequately teach basic secular subjects.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan participates in a discussion at George Washington University Law School, in Washington, DC. on Sept. 13, 2016

Katz rejects proposal to extend yeshiva students’ military service

Katz denied the proposal to extend service by four months, opting to keep the current term of one year and five months.

 An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

Magen David Adom warns of blood shortage in Israel, calls for public donors

Donation stations will be deployed across Israel for the next two weeks for public donors.

 Magen David Adom Motorcycles

"No being can stand in their presence": Torah scroll dedicated in memory of Binyamin Achimeir z”l

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Netanyahu’s English saves his coalition? Rabbis drop draft ultimatum in private call

By Sunday evening, an understanding was reached: the ultra-Orthodox factions would not issue an ultimatum over the draft law at this time.

 Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, pictured in 2014.

Three more New York City yeshivas lose status and funding over secular education standards

The schools will lose their legal status and will not receive any public funding for meals, transportation, textbooks orother programs after June 30.

 A yeshiva school bus drives through Broolyn on Sept. 12, 2022.

Taking from Israel and refusing to serve: Why haredim draft refusal is hard to swallow - editorial

Few things are more provocative for non-haredim than haredi rabbis and students gleefully rejecting the government and refusing to defend the state – all while taking its money.

 Using donations to force change in Haredi draft row.

The IDF needs soldiers but Israel is paying yeshivas to dodge the draft - opinion

This might have been possible to tolerate before October 7 but definitely not now, at a time when the IDF is missing over 10,000 soldiers to fulfill the missions it already has.

 MK MOSHE GAFNI, chairman of the Knesset Finance Committee, leads a committee meeting last week. ‘Why would a country willingly fund institutions that seek its downfall? The sad answer is politics. Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu needs the haredim in his coalition,’ says the writer.

Bus carrying Yeshiva students overturns in New Jersey, one in critical condition

While the student in critical condition was initially thought to be dead, Montvale Mayor Mike Ghassali said the boy “now has a pulse” in a post on X at 9:30 p.m.

Footage of the Montvale bus crash

Daycare subsidies for children of military-age yeshiva students officially ends

The ending of the program will be a financial blow to some 7,000 haredi families.

 Jewish yeshiva students study at the Kamenitz Yeshiva, in Jerusalem on September 9, 2024.

Agudat Yisrael accused of instructing yeshiva students to evade IDF draft sanctions

Recordings published in Ynet last week revealed that Agudat Yisrael party officials were instructing yeshiva students to open fictitious small businesses.

 Police officers in Bnei Brak, Israel use water cannons as haredi Orthodox Jewish men block a main highway to protest efforts to allow the state to draft Haredi yeshiva students into military service, June 2, 2024.