Haredi

Government to promote plan for integrating haredim into medical studies

The goal is to develop a dedicated framework for training haredi doctors, with recommendations to be submitted to the health minister within 90 days.

Sanctions against draft-dodgers are ‘sparse,’ IDF says

Current sanctions against draft dodgers are “threadbare” and are not applying enough pressure on haredi men to respect draft orders.

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

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

The proposal — which would create scholarships of up to $5,000 per student — marks the farthest that proponents of school vouchers have ever gotten toward expanding school vouchers nationwide.

By ASAF ELIA-SHALEV/JTA
21/05/2025

Art Shelter Gallery: When art and religion intersect

Jerusalem's Art Shelter Gallery, founded in 2003, is the first visual arts space for the haredi community.

Haredi parties' Knesset boycott to continue for third straight week

This could change pending an assessment by haredi MKs later this week, according to one of the spokespersons.

In the pink: Israeli films showcase ethnic, LGBT diversity in the haredi community

Together, Pink Lady and Neither Day nor Night cast a light on the highly insular center of the haredi world.

By MORDECHAI BECK
18/05/2025

How real is the haredi threat to topple the government?

Despite the growing calls, even within the coalition, for eligible haredi men to join the IDF, the reality on the ground has not changed very much.

Rabbi Eliezer Berland and Rabbi Ofer Erez

High Court rejects petition to prevent convicted sex offender Berland from lighting Meron torch

The MQG, along with haredi activist Tzippy Lavi and five other women's rights groups, had requested that the court cancel the permit granted to the sect to light the fire.

  Opposition head MK Yair Lapid speaks at a press conference in Jerusalem, April 20, 2025

Lapid to TML: Haredim 'paid to dodge' as IDF scrambles for manpower

In an interview with The Media Line, Yair Lapid, Matan Kahana, and Rabbi Yehoshua Pfeffer address Israel’s escalating draft crisis as tensions mount over haredi exemptions.

By GABRIEL COLODRO/THE MEDIA LINE
14/05/2025

IDF arrests 36 in overnight operation amid crackdown on draft dogers

Netanyahu seeks to draft 10,500 haredim over two years, or around 5,250 per year.

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