Haredim

2026 budget reading puts government at risk, after months of ideological sparring - analysis

If the vote is postponed, or if the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) parties choose not to support it and it falls, then for all intents and purposes the government will fall with it.

A PLENUM session at the Knesset.
 Rain in Bnei Brak

Haredim in Israel’s periphery show distinct lifestyle gaps from center, Shoresh Institute finds

Israel Police take a woman in for questioning.

'I don’t care about optics': Inside United Hatzalah’s Jerusalem daycare disaster response

Caps with slogans supporting Greenland are on display in a clothing store in Copenhagen, Denmark, January 20, 2026.

Supreme Court decision on baby autopsy, Trump’s Greenland texts under scrutiny


Coalition, opposition spar as preliminary vote on haredi daycare bill nears

United Torah Judaism threatens to oppose other coalition bills if daycare bill falls

 HAREDI JEWS walk in the streets of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem, earlier this month.

Gov't secretary making illegal attempts to fund haredi draft exemption, AG charges

The government has been trying to circumvent the legal barrier to continue subsidizing daycare for haredi yeshiva students.

 Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs seen at the Knesset, in Jerusalem, June 18, 2024

Haredi society needs to start pulling its weight as Israel's needs grow - opinion

The national religious public once questioned who was closer—the secular kibbutznik from Mishmar HaEmek or the haredi from Kiryat Sefer. In Israel’s ongoing war, the answer is clear.

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Love, laughter, and high-stakes Haredi dating in 'Matchmaking 2' - review

If you’re craving a story that’s both romantic and funny, Matchmaking 2 is a good match.

 NOAM IMBER (left) and OMER NUDELMAN in 'Matchmaking 2.'

'Israel is set to launch an unprecedented attack on Hezbollah and Gaza,' Goldknopf reveals

In his interview, Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf said he doesn't understand what failure is attributed to the Prime Minister on October 7, and supports returning to Gush Katif

 United Torah Judaism (UTJ) chairman rabbi Yitzchak Goldknopf is seen at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem, July 28, 2022

A-G, labor minister spat continues as daycare subsidies remain unpaid

Labor Minister Yoav Ben-Tzur accused AG Gali Baharav-Miara of undermining democracy by blocking a government decision to extend daycare subsidies to haredi yeshiva students of military eligibility.

 ‘THE HAREDI leadership argues that it is forbidden to draft yeshiva students whose Torah is their profession and that they defend the State of Israel through their studies.’

Why did hundreds of Orthodox Jerusalem girls suddenly go barefoot?

Jerusalem students remove TOMS shoes and walk barefoot after discovering forbidden Shaatnez, showing swift adherence to religious law.

 Illustration.

Haredim protest near Jerusalem IDF recruitment office

The police said dozens of protesters blocked nearby streets with fences, clashed with police and border police officers insulted them, and attempted to break through fences police had erected.

 Mounted officers at the scene of the protest at the Haturim light rail station in Jerusalem. August 21, 2024.

Smotrich orders haredi daycare subsidies to continue, defying attorney general

Smotrich's decision opens another front in the struggle between the government and the attorney general's office.

 Minister of Finance and Head of the Religious Zionist Party Bezalel Smotrich at a conference of the Israeli newspaper "Makor Rishon", in Jerusalem, June 30, 2024.

How Jewish liturgical responses evolved from Maimonides to today - opinion

On Tisha B’Av 5784, it is clear that the same phenomenon is bubbling up in the Modern Orthodox community in America and the religious-Zionist community in Israel regarding the events of Oct. 7.

 MEN PRAY on the ground or on low chairs at the Western Wall in a sign of mourning on Tisha B’Av last year.