Haredi draft
Bread as a weapon: The ugly pedigree of ‘no service, no shekel’ - opinion
The idea that those who do not serve should not be fed has a pedigree — Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Hitler — and a Jewish history that Israel, of all countries, should remember. The strategy never succeeds.
Will this election end the battle over drafting haredi men into the IDF? - analysis
Yair Lapid: The upcoming election is about what we want Israel to be - opinion
Israel's attorney-general urges High Court to cut benefits for 110,000 draft evaders
Israel’s election must be about repairing society after October 7 - opinion
The silent majority of the Israeli public must step up and choose tikkun – the repair of society to make it better – and ensure that our heroic soldiers will not have died in vain.
Haredi protesters block Highway 4 near Ra'anana, Kfar Saba over draft dodger arrest
Police have deemed the demonstration illegal and are on the scene directing traffic to alternative routes, clearing the road, and restoring public order.
Some came to Israel to serve the Jewish state. Haredim are rewarded for refusing to help - opinion
How can a sane government allow a situation in which people travel thousands of miles to serve Israel while tens of thousands are paid not to serve their country?
IDF detains 42 Chabad Hassidic draft evaders arriving from New York at Ben-Gurion Airport
Of the 42, 40 expressed willingness to enlist and were found fit for military service, while 2 were found to have dodged the draft for an extended period and were sent directly to a military prison.
Netanyahu: Arrests of haredi draft evaders 'unacceptable,' undermine IDF enlistment efforts
"This is unacceptable. We need to preserve the world of Torah study because it has preserved us," the prime minister told Kol Barama during a Tuesday morning radio interview.
Israel cannot solve its draft crisis without confronting the status quo - opinion
This systemic self-destructive behavior of Israeli governments, letting one group decide and legislate what is religiously (and therefore civically) acceptable, is the root of today's inequality.
Stun grenades, water cannon deployed to disperse haredi protesters blocking Highway 4 near Yavne
The highway was reopened to traffic after about two hours of protests, which were sparked by the arrests of two IDF draft evaders over the weekend.
Israel picks between 'secular democracy or theocracy' in election, chess master Garry Kasparov says
"Just as Abraham Lincoln observed that the government could not persist 'half slave and half free,' Israel cannot go on half theocratic and half secular," Kasparov, whose father was Jewish, said.
Haredi draft dodgers subjected to 'Holocaust' treatment, ultra-Orthodox Knesset candidate claims
"Our situation is close to what it was in the Holocaust," Stark said. "And there's no other way to say it."
Israeli election campaigns must move past political gimmicks to tackle critical issues - editorial
With two weeks to go, let’s hear how the parties are going to deal with education, transportation, the environment, the unequal IDF draft, the worrying wave of emigration, and the West Bank.
