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Watered-down Charedi draft bill set to become law after coalition compromise

A re-drafted version of the law is set to relax requirements for yeshiva students to enlist and reduce penalties for draft dodging

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read
Anti-draft posters mocking Shas leader Aryeh Deri in the Charedi neighbourhood of Meah Shearim (Flash90)
Yeshiva students protest the detention of Ariel Shamai on October 27, 2025 (Image: X)
Charedi

Yeshiva students co-opt hostage symbols for anti-conscription protest

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read
Studying in a Miami yeshiva: Long days of study, hands-on outreach, and no regrets
America

Studying in a Miami yeshiva: Long days of study, hands-on outreach, and no regrets

By Binyamin Jayson

2 min read
The Shas party has confirmed it will vote to dissolve the Knesset in a row over Charedi enlistment in the IDF (Pictured: Shas leader Aryeh Deri; Image: Flash90)
Israeli Politics

Netanyahu coalition on the brink as key Charedi party to vote for Knesset dissolution

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read
United Torah Judaism chair Yitzchak Goldknopf is reportedly pushing to a bill to dissolve the Knesset over the Charedi draft law (Image: Flash90)
charedim

Charedi parties threaten to force fresh elections over IDF draft law

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish youths block a road in Bnei Brak as they protest against their conscription into the IDF, April 1, 2024 (Credit: OREN ZIV/AFP via Getty Images)
IDF

Israeli defence ministry begins drafting Charedi Yeshiva students

By Daniel Ben-David

1 min read
UK’s first cross-communal yeshivah ‘exceeds expectations’
Yeshiva

UK’s first cross-communal yeshivah ‘exceeds expectations’

By Gaby Wine

2 min read

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Brooklyn Yeshiva to pay $8M fine over 'pervasive culture of fraud and greed'

By Daniel Ben-David

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October 26, 2022 10:49
Brooklyn Yeshiva to pay $8M fine over 'pervasive culture of fraud and greed'

Yeshivot: There is a possible compromise - but will either side agree to it?

By Simon Rocker

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June 16, 2022 10:01
Yeshivot: There is a possible compromise - but will either side agree to it?

'Hands off our yeshivot or we'll leave Britain,' warn Charedi demonstrators at Westminster

By Felix Pope

3 min read

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June 16, 2022 09:30
'Hands off our yeshivot or we'll leave Britain,' warn Charedi demonstrators at Westminster
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By Noa Gendler

As a woman studying in a Jerusalem yeshiva, Israelis have no idea what to make of me

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February 23, 2022 09:24
As a woman studying in a Jerusalem yeshiva, Israelis have no idea what to make of me