On Oct. 20, 2026, a week before Israel’s elections, dozens of men were detained on suspicion of evading the draft – arrests ...

The issue of mandatory military service has reached a boiling point as the country heads to the polls next week.

Throughout this series, I have argued that preserving religious identity and accepting the responsibilities of common citizenship need not be mutually exclusive. Yet there is an important limitation ...

Some 15.3% of ultra-Orthodox men and 11.9% of women secularize by age 30, according to a nonprofit helping Haredim integrate ...

Haredi rabbis and the secular left agree: This technology is a threat to the entire social fabric. Gathered around a long conference table teeming with rainbow cookies and rugelach this past January, ...

As the accompanying new Ayin Tova Cartoon shows, we find Zionist MK political leaders “married” to leading Haredi MKs.

Democrats chairman Yair Golan said at an event in Rishon Lezion that the Haredi population must be made productive. "We need to transform the Haredi population from a parasitic population into a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Haredim protest against the IDF draft outside Tel Hashomer recruitment base, April 28. 2025. (photo credit: AVSHALOM SASSONI) ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Committee Chairman Yuli Edelstein leads a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in ...

He added that the party would also refuse to join a coalition alongside the Haredi parties. In a joint statement with Party ...

Two weeks ago, I was on stage at the Saban Theater in Los Angeles for a major Keren Olam HaTorah event. Rabbi Dov Lando and other senior Israeli yeshiva leaders joined about 40 to 50 local rabbis, and ...

There is an argument I have been having with myself since October 7, 2023. It goes like this: the Haredi community should serve in the IDF. The burden of defending this land cannot fall on some of us ...