Draft

'Abandoning values': Yoaz Hendel accuses Religious Zionist Party of encouraging mass draft evasion

The former minister rejected reliance on Arab and haredi parties, called for a broad Zionist government, and said Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu should leave office.

Reservists Party leader Yoaz Hendel presents national PTSD recovery plan after October 7, May 10, 2026.
Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters block Highway 4 near Bnei Brak during an anti-draft protest, December 22, 2025.

Haredi draft dodgers should avoid airports, border crossings to evade arrest, yeshiva council warns

Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from the Gur (Hasidic dynasty) protest outside Military Prison near Kfar Yona, central Israel, against the jailing of seminary students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, July 20, 2026.

Hundreds of haredim protest outside military prison following draft dodger arrest

 NETZAH YEHUDA soldiers at the dedication of a Torah scroll at the Erez Crossing.

Israel just gave Torah study a constitution. It should have given its soldiers one - opinion


WATCH: Haredi protesters set fires, block roads, throw stones at police officers, in Beit Shemesh

Haredi demonstrators rioted in Beit Shemesh, blocking buses and throwing stones, as police units moved in to disperse the crowd.

Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters gather in Mea She'arim, Jerusalem, to celebrate draft dodgers' release from miiltary prison, November 30, 2025; illustrative.

Israel's haredi draft crisis: Court ruling and political stalemate reach breaking point - analysis

Israel's haredi draft crisis intensifies as court ruling forces action, while political divisions and protests make it difficult to see a path forward.

 Haredim protest against the IDF draft outside Tel Hashomer recruitment base, April 28. 2025.

Ultra-Orthodox leaders give haredi factions green light to advance IDF draft bill

The past week has seen violence from within the haredi community from extremists who are against a law that would require army enlistment from members of the community.

 Rabbi Dov Lando seen during a meeting to discuss the drafting of ultra-Orthodox jews to the IDF in the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, April 5, 2024.

No more splinters: Israel can no longer fund its own vilification by haredim - opinion

The haredi protest, which took place last week, displayed the 'parisitism dressed up as piety' rampant in the haredi institutions which take public funding but revile the IDF

Masses attend ‘The cry of the Torah’ demonstration in Jerusalem last month. What took place was not holiness; it was hypocrisy, the writer charges.

Struggle for identity: Haredi demonstration reflect a quest for unity - opinion

The goal of demonstrations in general, and mass demonstrations in particular, is to mold the identity of the individual and to strengthen identification with the group and its goals.

THE MASSES attend ‘The cry of the Torah’ demonstration in Jerusalem last Thursday. This time, it seems that the main reason for holding the demonstration was actually intra-haredi, the writer maintains.

Refusing to serve divides society: How haredi draft dodging harms Israel - opinion

Haredi communities who so forcefully asserted themselves in the city did not just make a statement about the draft, but about their relationship with the very country they call home.

Haredi protesters against the IDF draft demonstrate in Jerusalem on October 30, 2025.

Netanyahu halts meetings on haredi draft bill, sparking opposition fury

The first discussion to present the outline of the newly updated bill had been slated for Monday.

MK Boaz Bismuth, chair of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee leads a committee meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, September 17, 2025.

The haredi draft dodging farce to continue until we who pay the price say 'enough!' - editorial

The threat of revoking the right of haredim to vote might be extreme, but sanctions, budget cuts, and hitting them where it hurts – in the pocketbook – are not.

Haredi men attend a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with IDF draft orders in Mea She'arim, Jerusalem, October 22, 2025.

Contentious WZC resolutions touch on draft, settlements, Oct 7 inquiry

Delegates at the 39th World Zionist Congress consider resolutions on military draft, sovereignty over the West Bank, and the October 7 inquiry.

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu speaks at the 37th World Zionist Congress conference in Jerusalem, 2015.

WATCH: Two police officers injured during Haredi protests against draft dodger arrests

Two suspects were reportedly arrested and brought in for questioning. 

Police clash with ultra-Orthodox jews during a protest against the recruitment of Ultra orthodox Jews to the IDF, in the Ultra orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, October 19, 2025.