Yeshiva students

Yeshiva students seize house in Hebron's old city for dorms

A press release from the yeshiva claimed that this was the first time Jews had entered the old city since 1929.

Students from Yeshiva Shavei Hevron claim the Valero house in the old city.
Rabbi Baruch Mordechai Ezrachi delivers a torah lesson at Ateret Yisrael Yeshiva in Jerusalem, November 19, 2019.

A need to pass on wisdom: Yeshiva, academia has failed to produce new sages - opinion

HARAV AHARON LICHTENSTEIN, longtime rosh Yeshivat Har Etzion, with IDF soldiers in 2008.

International yeshiva students answer IDF's call as Har Etzion breaks records

MK Boaz Bismuth attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem July 8, 2025

Bismuth elected FADC head, ousting Edelstein over haredi draft bill


'To Be Holy but Human': A look into the life ‘hesder yeshiva’ creator Rabbi Yehuda Amital - review

One of a kind: Rav Amital was that unique and unparalleled leader who lived at a time when he was needed the most.

Israelis carry the body of Rabbi Yehuda Amital during his funeral in Jerusalem, on July 09, 2010

Yeshiva students spat at, insulted by Arab man with knife in Lucerne, Switzerland

An Arab man with a knife approached a group of yeshiva students while shouting antisemitic insults and 'free Palestine' in Lucerne, Switzerland.

 People walk past as Swiss police vehicles stand by to prevent expected illegal gatherings amid restrictions due to the coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, in the old town of Zurich, Switzerland, April 9, 2021.

'We failed, made a mistake' on judicial reform, haredi draft bill deal, UTJ's Goldknopf says

UTJ was told to support the judicial reform as it would allow for a "basic law of Torah study," and another law as an override clause, Yitzhak Goldknopf claimed in an interview with Kikar HaShabbat.

 Yitzhak Goldknopf at a United Torah Judaism meeting at the Knesset, Jerusalem, May 19, 2025.

Deri and Lapid clash over IDF draft law, sanctions on ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students

Aryeh Deri responded to the Attorney-General's discussion on the High Court of Justice consideration over the draft law and the plan to toughen sanctions against yeshiva students who don't enlist.

A view of the Shas party offices in Jerusalem, June 4, 2025

IDF soldiers killed due to yeshivas 'neglecting Torah study', former chief rabbi claims

Yitzhak Yosef condoled the families of the five soldiers killed in Gaza's Beit Hanun in an open letter, calling for increased Torah study, implicitly denouncing haredi draft attempts.

 Shas spiritual leader and former Sephardic chief rabbi, Yitzhak Yosef, seen during a weekly lecture at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, June 07, 2025; illustrative.

School vouchers would expand nationwide under federal proposal cheered by Orthodox groups

The proposal — which would create scholarships of up to $5,000 per student — marks the farthest that proponents of school vouchers have ever gotten toward expanding school vouchers nationwide.

 A yeshiva school bus drives through Broolyn on Sept. 12, 2022.

NY state budget weakens oversight over yeshiva learning in blow to secular education advocates

The outcome represents a dramatic victory for the state’s Hasidic leaders.

 An Orthodox Jewish boy walks by a Yeshiva school bus, as New York City, April 9, 2019.

Justice Kagan speculates about publicly funded yeshivas

Kagan’s line of questioning comes as New York recently closed multiple yeshivas that were not abiding by a state law requiring all schools to adequately teach basic secular subjects.

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Elena Kagan participates in a discussion at George Washington University Law School, in Washington, DC. on Sept. 13, 2016

Katz rejects proposal to extend yeshiva students’ military service

Katz denied the proposal to extend service by four months, opting to keep the current term of one year and five months.

 An illustrative image of Defense Minister Israel Katz and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir.

Magen David Adom warns of blood shortage in Israel, calls for public donors

Donation stations will be deployed across Israel for the next two weeks for public donors.

 Magen David Adom Motorcycles

"No being can stand in their presence": Torah scroll dedicated in memory of Binyamin Achimeir z”l