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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu did not attend the vote, marking another absence from a controversial coalition ballot
Netanyahu again skips controversial vote as Torah study law passes: ‘Blow to IDF during wartime’
The softened measure passed 63-52 and could strengthen Haredi arguments for a future draft exemption; IDF chief warns parallel legislation would reward evasion and damage trust among those who serve
Amir Ettinger | 07.13.26
הפגנת הפלג הירושלמי נגד הגיוס לצה"ל
Knesset panel advances bill freezing arrests of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers
Committee legal adviser warns measure grants yeshiva students a sector-wide exemption without meaningful oversight or penalties, but coalition lawmakers approved it for final Knesset votes later this week
Amir Ettinger | 07.12.26
פעילות כוחות סיירת גולני במרחב הבופור
IDF service to remain at 32 months while freeze to arrests of Haredi draft dodgers advances
Updated bill removes 90-day limit, keeping the arrest freeze in force until November 30 and creating precedents for a future draft exemption law
Yossi Yehoshua, Moran Azulay | 07.06.26
מליאת הכנסת - הצבעה לחוק יסוד לימוד תורה
Torah study bill advances as Haredi parties seek legal shield on draft exemptions
Netanyahu arrives from Maccabiah ceremony to help secure 61-vote majority for Haredi-backed bill, part of wider political deal with Likud over draft, kosher supervision and October 7 inquiry issues
Amir Ettinger | 07.01.26
אריה דרעי
Dear Aryeh, we are burying our dead while you defend draft dodgers
I sent you a hand for help and thought you would listen; instead, you visited draft dodgers while our sons bleed in Gaza and Lebanon
Hanoch Daum | 06.30.26
מחאת חרדים כנגד מעצר בני הישיבות בבני ברק
Rabbi curses IDF chief at anti-draft rally: ‘May his name be erased’
Former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef leads Bnei Brak protest over arrests of yeshiva students, as Shas lawmakers attend despite party unease and coalition efforts continue to pass draft-exemption legislation
Shilo Freid | 06.29.26
הפגנת הפלג הירושלמי נגד הגיוס לצה"ל
‘Fear of civil war’: government pushes halt to arrests of Haredi draft dodgers
Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs says arrests of yeshiva students are pushing Haredim away from enlistment and risk tearing Israeli society apart; Netanyahu claimed police enter yeshivas to arrest Torah students, though no such case is known
Itamar Eichner, Shilo Freid, Gal Ganot, Amir Ettinger | 06.27.26
עימותים בערד
Ultra-Orthodox draft protests turn violent as roads snarl
Clashes erupt in Arad and near Kiryat Ono during nationwide anti-draft convoys, while residents of Kfar Yona mobilize to block demonstrators from reaching a military prison that has become a flashpoint in the enlistment dispute
ynet correspondents | 06.24.26
הפגנת חרדים ליד כלא 10
Ultra-Orthodox protest over draft arrests disrupts central Israel
Thousands gather near military prison outside Kfar Yona after yeshiva students arrested for draft evasion, blocking roads and alarming residents as Israel’s conscription crisis deepens
Maya Cohen, Roy Rubinstein, Shilo Freid | 06.17.26
הרב לנדו בנאומו במונסי
Haredi leader raises funds in US to fight 'decrees against Torah students in the Land of Israel'
The leader of the Haredi Lithuanian community, Rabbi Dov Lando, at a rally in Monsey, NY called on Diaspora Jews to join forces for yeshivas and kollels in Israel, amid budget cuts: 'Every Jew is hurt by the decrees against Torah students'
Shilo Freid | 06.15.26
הצהרת המחזור החמישי של חטיבת חשמונאים
Haredi brigade marks its largest class yet
IDF’s ultra-Orthodox Hasmonean Brigade holds declaration ceremony for 97 soldiers; 'At first, it was hard for my family to accept my desire to enlist, but it was a process, and slowly they got used to it,' says one recruit
Shilo Freid | 06.10.26
הפגנת חרדים בלשכת הגיוס תה"ש במהלך יום גיוס של תומכי לחימה במסלולים חרדיים
‘When the Messiah comes, we'll stone all secular Jews’: rabbis attack Israeli law, IDF enlistment
Prominent ultra-Orthodox rabbis question duty to obey state laws at Netivot anti-enlistment conference targeting IDF tracks designed for Haredi men
Shilo Freid | 06.07.26
המשטרה מפזרת חרדים עם רימוני הלם בכביש 1
Haredim blocking major highway to Jerusalem dispersed with stun grenades: Rabbi: 'We are at war'
'They want to destroy the Torah world, and we need to go to war over this' says Rabbi Moshe Hillel Hirsch, as protests over arrest of draft dodger cause major traffic disruptions
Shilo Freid | 06.05.26
הנזקים שגרמו מפגינים חרדים לביתו של שופט העליון סולברג במחאה על חוק הגיוס
'Is this Kristalnacht?': Over 50 Haredi Jews arrested for smashing up judge's home
 In protest of the draft exemption law, dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters came to the home of Supreme Court Justice Noam Sohlberg, where they broke windows, smashed vases and terrorized his family;  'Look at this destruction, a pogrom'
Liran Tamari | 06.03.26
הפגנת החרדים בירושלים
Anti-draft Haredi protesters smash Jerusalem police building doors, block railway tracks
Anti-draft Haredi protesters brought rail traffic in central Israel to a halt, attempted to storm the home of a senior police commander and blocked major roads across the country, as Haredi municipal leaders declared the police 'an enemy' and suspended cooperation.
Liran Tamari, Shilo Freid, Sivan Hilaie, Gilad Cohen | 06.01.26
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