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Netanyahu condemns Charedi rioters over attack on Supreme Court justice's home

Striclty-Orthodox men smashed the windows of Judge Noam Sohlberg’s West Bank home while he and his wife and children were inside amid violent protests about the enforcement of conscription on yeshiva students

By JC Reporter

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Smashed windows at the home of Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg (Flash90)

Charedi jewish soldiers from the Hasmonean Brigade take part in a beret march at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old city on August 6, 2025 (Flash90)

Israel

IDF welcomes record number of Charedi recruits

By Lianne Kolirin

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Rabbi Dov Lando attends a wedding in Bnei Brak, January 15, 2026 (Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Spiritual leader of Charedi faction orders MKs to take steps to dissolve Knesset

By Melanie Swan

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Charedim remove a fence access the grave of Rabbi Shimon Bar Yochai in Meron, attempting to reach the Lag B'omer celebrations after the site was closed by police following Home Front Command restrictions, May 5, 2026 (Flash90)

Israel

Lag B’Omer chaos as Charedim break police blockade at Mount Meron

By Melanie Swan

1 min read

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Erica Marks appointed new CEO of Mavar

By Simon Rocker

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Israel

IDF chief condemns ‘intolerable reality’ after female soldiers chased by Charedi rioters in Bnei Brak

By Jacob Jaffa

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Boaz Bismuth MK leads a Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee meeting at the Knesset on January 27, 2026 (Flash90)

Israeli Politics

Charedi draft bill to face Knesset votes following committee approval

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

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Coalition delays first reading of state budget amid Charedi draft row

The vote was scheduled for Monday but has now been pushed back until later in the week

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

January 26, 2026 10:51

Coalition whip and Likud MK Ofir Katz leads a House committee meeting at the Knesset on December 1, 2025 (Flash90)

High Court denies post-mortems in nursery baby death probe

Charedi rioters have clashed with police in Jerusalem for a second day as they protest the alleged ‘desecration’ of the infants’ bodies

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

January 21, 2026 10:59

Charedi men block a road and clash with police during a protest against the autopsy of toddlers who died in a daycare, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2026 (Flash90)

Police injured in Jerusalem Charedi riots

Confrontations between officers and strictly-Orthodox demonstrators turned violent over the attempted arrests of several draft dodgers

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

December 19, 2025 14:14

Charedi men clash with police during a protest following the issuance of a parking ticket on Bar-Ilan Road in Jerusalem, on December 18, 2025 (Flash90)

Hundreds of Charedi Jews protest against IDF draft outside London embassy

Demonstration by members of Strictly Orthodox community follows end to conscription exemption for full-time yeshiva students in Israel

By Daniel Ben-David

2 min read

December 11, 2025 17:32

Hundreds of members of the Charedi Jewish community demonstrate close to the Israeli embassy in London opposing the mandatory conscription of yeshiva students and the state itself (Credit: Daniel Ben-David)

Religious Zionism expected to back revised Charedi draft bill

The redrafted bill has heavily watered down sanctions against draft dodgers, but is set to pass through the Israeli parliament with the support of some unlikely allies

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

December 11, 2025 11:20

Religious Zionism leader Bezalel Smotrich talks with a Charedi MK ahead of US President Trump's address to the Knesset on October 13, 2025 (Getty Images)

Latest version of Charedi draft bill will maintain service exemption for yeshiva students

The bill, written by a Likued MK, will also allow draft dodgers to ‘age out’ of sanctions following threats of coalition resignations from the Charedi parties

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

November 28, 2025 12:40

Likud MK Boaz Bismuth, chair of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defence Committee (Flash 90)

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

Hundreds of young Charedi boys gathered outside a West Bank detention facility in wearing yellow hats bearing the slogan ‘bring him back to yeshiva’

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

October 28, 2025 14:10

Yeshiva students protest the detention of Ariel Shamai on October 27, 2025 (Image: X)

Former chief rabbi of Israel calls father of fallen IDF soldier a ‘heretic’ in Charedi conscription row

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef suggested that he would not join a minyan with Rabbi Tamir Granot over his views

By Jacob Jaffa

1 min read

October 27, 2025 10:16

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, former Sephardic chief rabbi of Israel, during a weekly teaching at the Yazdim synagogue in Jerusalem, on June 07, 2025 (Flash90)

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

The deaths of soldiers are due to the evil of Hamas, not because they didn’t study Torah hard enough

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen, but how could anyone know such a thing?

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July 11, 2025 13:27

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemed to connect lapses in religious learning to the deaths of five Charedi servicemen (Image: Flash90)

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Netanyahu condemns Charedi rioters over attack on Supreme Court justice's home

IDF welcomes record number of Charedi recruits

Spiritual leader of Charedi faction orders MKs to take steps to dissolve Knesset

Lag B’Omer chaos as Charedim break police blockade at Mount Meron

Erica Marks appointed new CEO of Mavar

IDF chief condemns ‘intolerable reality’ after female soldiers chased by Charedi rioters in Bnei Brak

Charedi draft bill to face Knesset votes following committee approval

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