a senior Israel Defense Forces officer in charge of encouraging ultra-Orthodox enlistment said that the IDF would soon be sending out 14,000 more draft orders to members of the Haredi community.

Defense Minister Israel Katz sent a letter on ... According to the new plan, the goal is to enlist 50% of 18-year-olds in the haredi sector within seven years, with 4,800 enlistees in the first ...

The attack and the war have also changed haredi society. Historically, few haredi men serve in the Israel Defense Forces, receiving an exemption from the country’s mandatory draft so that they ...

The Defense Ministry defines it as "a select unit, the first haredi unit in the IDF, whose purpose is to enable a haredi soldier to serve in a framework that conforms to his lifestyle and ...

(It constantly baffles me why Zionist Jews and Israelis are so scandalized by Haredi non-Zionism and ... and join some kind of civilian, local self-defense apparatus. But thankfully, this scenario ...

As Israel navigates one of its most challenging periods, a quiet but potentially transformative shift is taking place within its ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community. Four developments have converged ...

What are some of the tensions between haredim and other Israelis over service in the Israel Defense ... the haredi community – its leaders, its rabbis, its politicians – expressed self-criticism.

The internal document argued that a controversial Haredi conscription bill being debated in the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee would “result in far-reaching negative economic effects ...

The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee will hold a series of meetings this week for the preparation of a bill proposal to regulate the issue of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) service in the IDF.

“We got to the point that the IDF needs them and wants them,” said a defense official involved with Haredi enlistment. The ...