IDF refusal

IDF expected to resume draft evader operations as High Court deadline approaches

Military prosecutors said they were advancing measures to shorten the evasion period before criminal charges may be filed from 18 months to one year.

|BySARAH BEN-NUN
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with Israeli military draft orders, in Jerusalem, August 2, 2026.
An Israeli soldier guard as young men gathered during a demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against Israel's military draft on June 17, 2026 outside the Beit Lid military base in Kfar Yona, Israel. The conscription of young ultra-Orthodox men into the military, from which they were long exempt.

Likud MK Kallner opposes criminal arrests for haredi draft evaders, backs economic sanctions

Kallner, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, told 103FM that he does not think arresting yeshiva students is 'the right way.'

|By103FM
HAREDI MEN protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an IDF draft order, in May 2026.

The price tag of opting out of the IDF - opinion

Switzerland has long maintained that citizens who do not serve in the military pay a special compensatory tax to the state.

|ByOZ BIN NUN
HAREDIM BLOCK a road to protest the arrest of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, near Bnei Brak, on Monday.

IDF should conscript Arabs to serve instead of haredi draft dodgers - opinion

The demographic potential of Muslim Arab men aged 18 stands at over 12,500 young men per year – a figure equivalent to the enlistment potential of haredi men.

|ByNIMROD KOREN

Israeli settlers, ultra-Orthodox will pay for trampling over Israel - opinion

If they don’t rethink a new course, they will find themselves facing a majority that will stop supporting their continued prosperity, and perhaps their very existence.

AUGUST 4, 2023BySHUKI FRIEDMAN
FINANCE MINISTER Bezalel Smotrich and United Torah Judaism MK Moshe Gafni shake hands, as MK Ofir Katz, chairman of the government coalition, looks on at a meeting in the Knesset.

Judicial reform raises risk of war crime charges - ex-IDF int'l law chief

Former IDF international law division chief Col. (res.) Eran Shamir-Borer weighed in on the threat from the International Criminal Court.

AUGUST 2, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
THE INTERNATIONAL Criminal Court in The Hague.

How does IDF reservist protest impact potential strike on Iran? - analysis

There has been a sea change in how the IDF conceives of a potential strike on Iran’s nuclear program.

AUGUST 1, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Yoav Gallant seen on August 1, 2023

IDF should be above politics; reservists must serve - opinion

People of goodwill, by and large intuitively, cringe at the idea that pilots and other reservists can decide whether they will continue to show up for reserve duty.

AUGUST 1, 2023ByDOUGLAS ALTABEF
A FATHER kisses his son after the soldier completed a military drill.

IDF reservists refuse to serve – but I'm ready to serve anytime - opinion

As I watch thousands of reservists declare that they will no longer serve, I am saddened to see military service become politicized to the extent it has been

JULY 29, 2023ByJONATHAN FELDSTEIN
HAVING BEEN unable to serve in the IDF, the writer serves in a different way – dishing out watermelon to soldiers on active duty.

Israel can't use short-term solutions for long-term problems

NATIONAL AFFAIRS: Enough of apportioning blame, enough with the dire descriptions of the country’s state and where it is going.

JULY 29, 2023ByHERB KEINON
PROTESTERS BLOCK the Ayalon Highway in Tel Aviv Monday night during a demonstration following the Knesset vote on the contested bill that limits Supreme Court powers to void some government decisions.

My Word: Law and disorder

The morning after the law passed, turned into “the mourning after” for the anti-reform and anti-government camp.

JULY 27, 2023ByLIAT COLLINS
A MAN wearing a T-shirt with the slogan ‘We are all brothers’ blows a shofar near the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, calling for unity with the anti-reform demonstrators.

IDF: Still ready, but process of harming readiness started

IDF Chief of Staff Halevi stressed, "In the midst of this instability, the IDF must maintain its responsibility."

JULY 25, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF reservists sign letters stating they will not show up to reserve service anymore.

IDF chief calls on reservists who quit over judicial reform to come back

The IDF had threatened sanctions on reservists who refused to serve in protest over judicial reform and the reasonableness standard bill. Now, the IDF chief appeared to offer amnesty.

JULY 23, 2023ByYONAH JEREMY BOB
IDF Chief of Staff Herzi Halevi attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament, in Jerusalem on July 18, 2023.

Another 10,000 IDF reservists announce they won't serve anymore

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief Herzi Halevi will reportedly meet to discuss the issue on Sunday.

JULY 22, 2023ByJERUSALEM POST STAFF
10,000 reservists announce that they won't serve anymore in protest of the judicial reform.