by mgall74 | Jan 6, 2026 | Israeli News
[ad_1] The incident took place as an estimated 15,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews protested against military conscription in Jerusalem. An eyewitness told Israeli media the protesters ‘stopped the bus and spat on the driver and then he saw that he had no way out’...
by mgall74 | Jan 4, 2026 | Israeli News
[ad_1] Racheli (not her real name) was looking forward to returning home and spending an afternoon with her son. She searched every room of the apartment but he wasn’t there. Her son had been seized by people in the Vizhnitz Hasidic community and sent to a...
by mgall74 | Dec 31, 2025 | Israeli News
[ad_1] About 100 ultra-Orthodox donors in the United States signed a declaration pledging to stop donating to religious Israeli institutions that undermine the status of the Israel Defense Forces, marking a rare public rift between wealthy American Orthodox...
by mgall74 | Dec 28, 2025 | Israeli News
[ad_1] Around 300 ultra-Orthodox members of the extremist Jerusalem Faction blocked a major highway in central Israel’s Bnei Brak Sunday evening in protest of the arrest of ultra-Orthodox youth for non-compliance with Israel’s mandatory military...
by mgall74 | Dec 28, 2025 | Israeli News
[ad_1] The bill intended to regulate the exemption of ultra-Orthodox Israelis from mandatory IDF service is unlikely to reduce inequality among Israeli youth expected to enlist, according to the legal counsel of the Knesset committee discussing the proposed...