People of Israel’s Winter rejects Goldknopf’s call for student draft exemption
Brig.-Gen. (res.) Ofer Winter, the chairman of the People of Israel party, fired back at Yitzhak Goldknopf, head…
Haredi anti-draft protesters arrive at Tel Hashomer amid recruitment wave
Hundreds of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) men arrived at the Tel Hashomer military base on Sunday to be drafted into the…
IDI: Religious Israeli men overrepresented in IDF reserves, haredim absent
National-Religious men have become increasingly overrepresented in IDF reserve service during the Israel-Hamas War, while secular participation has…
Gadi Eisenkot demands haredi party Shas remove new election ad invoking IDF soldiers
Central Elections Committee Chairman Justice Noam Solberg issued on Sunday an interim order for the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Shas…
Israel to offer 20,000 discounted homes to IDF reservists in coming years
Israel’s government unveiled on Sunday a program that will provide approximately 20,000 opportunities for IDF reserve soldiers to…
Gerrer Rebbe, anti-Zionist Satmar billionaire discuss ICJ action against Israel
One of the United Torah Judaism spiritual leaders, Gerrer Admor Rabbi Yaakov Aryeh Alter, met Joel Landau, a…
Smotrich placates coalition on Haredi draft, but pays a cost among settler base
Far-right Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich faces a fight for political survival in elections in October after angering his…
Opposition pans Netanyahu ‘spin’ as he distances himself from Haredi draft evasion law
Politicians seeking to oust Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu in the upcoming election accused him of engaging in disingenuous…
IDF chief tells Haredi commanders army must grow, as data shows uptick in enlistment
IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir on Wednesday again said that the military must expand its…
The Blogs: Why Not a Professional Army in Israel? | Simon Fink
What Israel Can Learn from Milton Friedman and the United States The Israel Democracy Institute has confirmed what…
Beyond Israel’s haredi draft: The bigger political stakes for Israel’s future
I understand the anger. I genuinely do. Like so many Israelis, I have spent decades serving in the…
The Blogs: Who Shook the Jar? The Question Israel Must Ask | Oshy Ellman
There is an old story about a jar filled with red ants and black ants. For a long…