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Charedi draft bill to face Knesset votes following committee approval

The coalition needs to pass the contentious legislation before the end of March, or it faces a rebellion over the state budget and a fresh round of elections

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)

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

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Coalition delays first reading of state budget amid Charedi draft row

By Jacob Jaffa

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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)

Israel

High Court denies post-mortems in nursery baby death probe

By Jacob Jaffa

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Jerusalem

Police injured in Jerusalem Charedi riots

By Jacob Jaffa

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Charedi

Hundreds of Charedi Jews protest against IDF draft outside London embassy

By Daniel Ben-David

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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)

Israeli Politics

Religious Zionism expected to back revised Charedi draft bill

By Jacob Jaffa

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

Israeli Politics

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

By Jacob Jaffa

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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

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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

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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)

Former Israeli chief rabbi suggests IDF deaths are linked to ‘neglecting’ Torah study

Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, the influential spiritual leader of the Shas party, made the comments following the deaths of five soldiers from a strictly-Orthodox unit

By Jacob Jaffa

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July 11, 2025 10:09

Former Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef seemingly suggested that the deaths of five Charedi soldiers were related to a 'neglect' of Torah study (Image: Flash90)

Charedi journalist investigated after celebrating the deaths of Orthodox IDF soldiers

Israel Frey wrote on X that “the world is a better place” after the military confirmed the deaths of five members of a Charedi combat unit

By Canaan Lidor

2 min read

July 9, 2025 13:47

Charedi journalist Israel Frey is under investigation after celebrating the deaths of five soldiers from a strictly-Orthodox IDF unit, the National Security Ministry has confirmed (Image: Flash90)

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

Shas has confirmed it will back the motion to end the current parliamentary term on Wednesday, forcing fresh elections, in a row over IDF conscription for yeshiva students

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

June 9, 2025 14:31

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)

Charedi parties threaten to force fresh elections over IDF draft law

Orthodox leaders have been enraged by the absence of an exemption for yeshiva students from military service

By Jacob Jaffa

2 min read

June 4, 2025 14:41

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

‘I am a proud Jewish lesbian living in the heart of the strictly Orthodox community’

My new memoir details my struggle to be myself in the face of abuse and denial

By Yehudis Fletcher

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May 29, 2025 13:32

By Rabbi Hayim Leiter

The actions of a short-sighted few are endangering the practice of brit milah

If, outside Israel, the law is that a bris must be performed by a medical professional, then they are the only ones who can do it.

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May 16, 2025 16:10

A Charedi mohel performs a circumcision in Mea She'arim, Israel (Image: Flash90)

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Charedi draft bill to face Knesset votes following committee approval

Coalition delays first reading of state budget amid Charedi draft row

High Court denies post-mortems in nursery baby death probe

Police injured in Jerusalem Charedi riots

Hundreds of Charedi Jews protest against IDF draft outside London embassy

Religious Zionism expected to back revised Charedi draft bill

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

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