Degel HaTorah

Thousands of seminary girls fundraise for yeshivas after draft dodgers lead to budget cuts - report

KAN reported that 25,000 seminary girls participated in the phone-calling campaign and raised over NIS 11 million. Each girl was given a personal fundraising goal of NIS 8,400.

|ByTZVI JASPER
Haredim protest against the IDF draft on Highway 4 outside Bnei Brak; illustrative, April 6, 2025.
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu seen with United Torah Judaism (UTJ) MK Moshe Gafni during a 40-signatures debate, at the plenum hall of the Knesset, in Jerusalem, November 10, 2025

Gafni’s ouster marks a changing era for Israel’s haredi parties - and for Netanyahu - analysis

By pushing Gafni out of the next Knesset, the party's rabbinic leadership has served notice that Netanyahu will have to win the haredim back rather than simply count them in.

|ByHERB KEINON