National religious

National-religious men overrepresented in IDF reserves as haredim stay absent, IDI analysis finds

National-Religious men were found to have increased in service substantially from the start of the war until 2025, while the participation of secular men decreased the most of any group.

 THE ZIONIST identity didn’t overcome the Jewish identity, nor did the opposite occur: An IDF soldier puts on tefillin.
Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) people in Tel Aviv in June.

Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community feels misunderstood. Here’s why - opinion

Illustrative: A voting box in the an Israeli election in 2015.

Religious identity remains Israel's strongest political divide, new IDI study finds

IDF SOLDIERS operating in the Gaza Strip.

Pareto vs the IDF: Does sociology determine army service? - opinion


Druckman says National Religious should vote for Bayit Yehudi, not Bennett

“Bennett and Shaked have established a general, not a religious party,” Rabbi Haim Druckman told 'The Jerusalem Post.'

Rabbi Haim Druckman studying with Simcha Goldin, father of slain soldier Hadar Goldin at a Torah study event in December, 2018, held by the Union of Hesder Yeshivas

A quarter of young religious women enlisting in the IDF, study finds

Increasing enlistment among young women from national-religious sector flies in the face of a campaign by hard-line rabbis against the trend.

The IDF's new coed combat units are the result of a long struggle for the integration of women into fighting roles in the army

Jerusalem elections: A game of musical chairs

It seems that at the next council, the national religious sector will be headed by two religious representatives who share almost all the same ideals but don’t speak to each other.

Rachel Azaria is running for Jerusalem's mayor at the head of the Yerushalmim party

Teaching Evolution In The Start-Up Nation

Educating students on Darwin’s theory of evolution—especially with regard to mankind’s common origins—can be tricky in Israel, teachers say.

A detail of British artist John Collier's 1883 painting of Charles Darwin is displayed as part of an exhibition in Darwin's former home.

Queen of the national religious

An encounter with Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe

Deputy Mayor Hagit Moshe

Senior national religious rabbis call for Knesset oversight on arms sales

The letter comes as activists for tighter oversight of arms sales to foreign countries staged a demonstration in the Rose Garden in front of the Knesset on Tuesday evening.

The Knesset building

Former IDF chief rabbi Avihai Rontzki dies aged 67

Rontski was amongst the founders of the Itamar settlement in 1984, and served for some years as its municipal chief rabbi.

Rabbi Avihai Rontski

200 National-Religious rabbis denounce IDF over 'liberal agenda'

The rabbis oppose religious men serving in close quarters to women, seeing it as contravening a religious lifestyle and even as endangering their religious identity.

IDF soldiers take part in battlefield maneuvers in preparation with potential war in the north.

WATCH: Did the IDF bow to religious pressure by removing women’s video?

The video has a voiceover by female soldiers repeating frequent claims by rabbis in the religious Zionist movement, such as that women have no physical strength.

A female IDF soldier shaking out a blanket during a week-long survival course for women in the infantry at an undisclosed location in Israel

Gabbay lambasts national-religious rabbis for extremism

Gabbay also castigated hard-line rabbis for their silence in the face of corruption by public officials on the Right.

Labor leader Avi Gabbay speaks at a faction meeting