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Equality NGO Forum Dvorah slams hesder yeshivot boycott over women's integration in tank units

Forum Dvorah, an Israeli women's rights NGO, criticized hesder yeshivot for boycotting the IDF Armored Corps over a pilot program involving women tank units.

Female IDF soldiers work on a tank; illustrative.
DF armored forces at a staging area in southern Israel near the border with Gaza. January 01, 2024.

Editor's Notes: High Court ruling on women in tanks deepens religious divide in IDF - comment

IDF reserve Infantry and Merkava Tank soldiers train in a military exercise in the Golan Heights on October 23, 2023

Some 25 hesder yeshivot boycott IDF's tank corps over new pilot to incorporate women

Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich gives a Jerusalem Day address, May 14, 2026.

WATCH: 'All of Israel is ours': Smotrich calls to annex West Bank in Jerusalem Day speech


The High Court's draft decision offers an opportunity for unity and shared sacrifice - editorial

The court’s ruling should serve as a catalyst for meaningful dialogue and engagement on the issue of military service instead of pathetic threats of emigration and political discord.

 A religious IDF Israeli soldier wrapped with Talit prayer shawl praying during a training of the Ultra Orthodox Unit at the Givati Brigade near the Israeli city of Beit Shemesh, September 27, 2017.

Israeli rabbi: Torah students cannot serve in IDF, they are protecting soldiers

"We must not, God forbid, take them [the haredi Yeshiva students who do not study Torah all day to the army because they also pray and they also study,” the Rabbi said. 

HAREDI MEN protest outside the IDF recruiting office in Jerusalem.

Jerusalem rabbi becomes father at 88, 'like our forefather Abraham'

The birth and celebrations of the rabbi and his wife in welcoming their first child has been covered by the haredi press, with many rejoicing the rarity and significance of the birth.

 Rabbi Tzvi Kushlevsky, esteemed head of a Jerusalemite yeshiva.

Bnei Brak Yeshiva announce death of Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker z"l

Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker was known to be dedicated to the spiritual development of his students and was a leading figure in the Haredi community.

Rabbi Baruch Weisbecker

Israel-Hamas war doc. and more hit Israeli TV, streaming

Until They Return is a look at the early days of the war, when Israel suddenly found itself mired in the chaos of identifying over 1,000 bodies and figuring out who was dead or taken hostage in Gaza.

 THE CAST OF ‘The New Black.’

Rabbi Zevulun Charlop, dean who led Yeshiva U seminary through period of growth, dies at 94

When Charlop was named dean of Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Theological Seminary at YU in 1971, it had 154 students. When he retired in 2008, it had 340.

 TWERSKY WAS close to top officials at Yeshiva University (pictured) both ideologically and through family ties.

War, Talmud, and agriculture - opinion

No one expects an unqualified yeshiva student to show up on the frontline and shed his blood. Instead, they could shed some sweat.

 VOLUNTEERS HELP in a raspberry greenhouse at Moshav Avnei Eitan on the Golan Heights, earlier this month.

'Jewish students are hiding who they are' as antisemitism surges

Yeshiva University president Rabbi Dr. Ari Berman on the surge of hate on US campuses.

'THERE ARE many good people in the US and in higher education.' Yeshiva University students and faculty marching for Israel.

Yeshiva students light 138 Hanukkah menorahs in honor of hostages

Students at the Erlau Hasidic Yeshiva in Jerusalem's Katamon neighborhood have arranged 138 Hanukkah menorahs in honor of the hostages who cannot light their menorahs this year.

 Erlau ceremony, light candles in honor of hostages

Yeruham yeshiva mourns Sgt. Yakir Shinkolevsky, Capt. Eitan Fish

"We will continue to build, plant, grow, and unite as a people because that was your way."

 Sgt. Yakir Shinkolevsky and Capt. Eitan Fish.