Haredi demographics

Likud MK Kallner opposes criminal arrests for haredi draft evaders, backs economic sanctions

Kallner, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, told 103FM that he does not think arresting yeshiva students is 'the right way.'

An Israeli soldier guard as young men gathered during a demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against Israel's military draft on June 17, 2026 outside the Beit Lid military base in Kfar Yona, Israel. The conscription of young ultra-Orthodox men into the military, from which they were long exempt.
Avigdor Liberman speaks at a Knesset meeting during the first week of the Israeli Parliament's winter session, October 27, 2025

Equality requires universal draft, participation in economy and workforce, MK Liberman says

 HAREDI JEWS walk in the streets of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim, in Jerusalem, earlier this month.

Coalition, opposition spar as preliminary vote on haredi daycare bill nears

 ULTRA-ORTHODOX men protest against the haredi draft, in Jerusalem last week.

A country at a crossroads: The issue of Haredi IDF service post-October 7 - analysis


Haredim and the IDF

On Friday, a man who had been threatening Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan for promoting haredi enlistment was arrested.

IDF soldiers of the Netzah Yehuda Haredi infantry battalion are seen during their swearing-in ceremony in Jerusalem

Who should I count on?

According to the Central Bureau of Statistics’ 2015 Labor Force Survey, about 29% of Jewish households in Jerusalem are haredi.

Ultra-orthodox live in Jerusalem

Haredi newspaper depicts Ben-Dahan hanging yeshiva students

Deputy defense minister: This paper is encouraging incitement.

Eli Ben-Dahan caricatured

Haredi employment, military service, higher education all on the rise

The “2016 Statistical Report on Ultra-Orthodox Society in Israel" reviews populations, education, economic, social and political trends in the haredi community.

ULTRA-ORTHODOX STUDENTS study at Jerusalem’s Mir Yeshiva.

Drastic fall in haredim serving in civilian service

The severe shortfall in the numbers of haredi men enlisting to the civilian service is likely due to the fact that some 30,000 haredi men aged 22 to 26 were given an immediate exemption.

Haredi students in classroom

Israeli demographics present economic challenges, study finds

Israel's life expectancy, it noted, is higher than the OECD average. Without increses in the retirement age, the report argued, people will be spending in retirement will increase 1.5 times by 2055.

Dozens of rabbis, yeshiva deans, and leaders from the haredi community, including Rabbi Shimon Baadani, a member of the Shas Council of Torah Sages, travelled to Radun and prayed first at the building which formerly housed the yeshiva of the Hafetz Haim, and then by his gravesite itself.

Haredi paratrooper company to be launched

Maximum of 80 soldiers to join Paratroopers Brigade’s company in November.

FIGHTERS FROM THE Tomer Company in the Givati Brigade perform training exercises last week.

Israel lags OECD in broadband mobile subscriptions

Israel, ahead of only seven countries, has a 25.9% fixed penetration rate.

A record year for smartphone sales in Israel

Law revoking requirement for haredi schools to teach core curriculum expected to pass

"Perhaps half of haredi parents want children to have general education at elementary school level," says haredi high-school principal.

Rivlin at Haredi school in Jerusalem, August 16, 2015

Status quo?

Expanding the coalition offers opportunities: to end religious discrimination against non-Orthodox streams of Judaism; to break Orthodoxy’s monopoly of religious services.

Avigdor Liberman speaks to Russian-speaking Jews in synagogue in Brooklyn, New York in 2014