Yeshiva students

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

Netanyahu is echoing false claims about arrests in yeshivas while ignoring practical proposals that could increase haredi enlistment.

People walk past election posters for the upcoming elections in Jerusalem on October 24, 2022.
Female IDF soldiers work on a tank; illustrative.

Equality NGO Forum Dvorah slams hesder yeshivot boycott over women's integration in tank units

DF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 01, 2024.

Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment

IDF reserve Infantry and Merkava Tank soldiers train in a military exercise in the Golan Heights on October 23, 2023

Some 25 hesder yeshivot boycott IDF's tank corps over new pilot to incorporate women


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.

Israeli mothers of IDF soldiers file petition to draft yeshiva students

The 240 appellants, mothers of current, former, or future soldiers, called for the ultra-Orthodox to begin to undergo fitness testing and drafting to the IDF.

 Haredim protest in Jerusalem against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox youth into the army.

'Draft yeshiva students to IDF now' - reservists to court

Brothers in Arms argued to the High Court that there was no primary legislation granting an exemption for yeshiva students.

 Haredim protest in Jerusalem against the conscription of ultra-Orthodox youth into the army.

Court says it won’t block rebuilding of West Bank’s Homesh on state land

“We order the deletion of the petition after it has been exhausted in its current form,” the court said.

 Visitors walk by the water tower on the ruins of the evacuated settlement of Homesh on August 27, 2019.