Draft
![Haredi Netzah Yehudah soldiers.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=700/2024/07/18/e0de3660-450f-11ef-9b01-b9b61028cadd__h4115_w6170.jpg)
The site's slogan: "meaningful service, Haredi way of life, employment horizon" adorns a user-friendly and succinct advertisement for state service.
![Haredim near the draft office.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/08/7f152d00-3d10-11ef-92f9-1b32553736e2__h331_w650.webp)
IDF, Draft Law, Haredi soldiers
The IDF has published its requirements for the Haredim to be drafted who are due to receive summon notices next week. As well as sharing the various ways the Israeli army is shifting to accommodate the integration of the religious group in the drafting process.
![Haredi Netzah Yehudah soldiers.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/18/e0de3660-450f-11ef-9b01-b9b61028cadd__h4115_w6170.jpg)
IDF, Haredim
Army Radio reporter Yoeli Brim reports that the IDF is using three criteria to determine who to formally draft next week.
![Protest against the draft, 2017.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/17/ea19d720-444c-11ef-9b01-b9b61028cadd__h2362_w3543.jpg)
IDF, Draft
Two Haredi journalists clashed over whether a large-scale draft of Haredim is desirable and achievable for Haredi society.
![MK Edelstein, Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/16/a282c1b0-438e-11ef-92f9-1b32553736e2__h3808_w5712.jpg)
IDF, Haredim
The decision comes following reports that the IDF will be sending out initial draft orders for Haredim starting next Sunday.
![Haredim and IDF Soldiers at Western Wall](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/13/c2cd1940-2992-11ef-b326-875a4c3cecda__h2838_w4258.jpg)
IDF, draft law, conscription, Haredim
A month after the High Court ruling obliging the state to recruit yeshiva students - next week the IDF will begin distributing initial recruitment orders to thousands of ultra-Orthodox.
![Haredi demonstration. Illustration.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/16/2181c890-436b-11ef-9b01-b9b61028cadd__h331_w650.webp)
IDF, Haredim
Maj.-Gen. David Zini and Brig.-Gen. Shai Taib were attacked yesterday by Haredi protestors in Bnei Brak. The two were meeting with Rabbi David Leibel to discuss forming a Haredi brigade within the IDF.
![Haredi protest against the draft.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/10/4ebda780-3ea6-11ef-92f9-1b32553736e2__h4729_w7090.jpg)
IDF, Haredim
As the IDF prepares to send out the initial draft orders to draft-eligible Haredi men, leading Haredi Rabbis are preparing a joint letter calling on them to refuse to present for service.
![Haredim near the draft office.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/08/7f152d00-3d10-11ef-92f9-1b32553736e2__h331_w650.webp)
IDF, draft law, Haredim
Defence Minister Yoav Galant received today (Tuesday) the IDF recommendations and decided that summonses for initial notices will be sent to the ultra-Orthodox community in the near future, starting next month.
![Gideon Saar Right-Wing Knesset member](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/08/49a1a6b0-3d30-11ef-92f9-1b32553736e2__h331_w650.webp)
IDF, draft law, military service
MK Gideon Sa'ar clarified that his faction will support the law to extend regular military service: "We will not politicize this issue; we are opposition to the government, not the state."
![Haredim near the draft office.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/08/7f152d00-3d10-11ef-92f9-1b32553736e2__h331_w650.webp)
IDF, Haredim
A new poll shows that while 72% of Charedim oppose being drafted into the IDF, 59% believe it might be more palatable - if the IDF makes these adjustments.
![Yoav Gallant.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/07/01/5955e2a0-37af-11ef-9b01-b9b61028cadd__h3679_w5518.jpg)
Israel internal politics, draft law, Haredim
A heated confrontation ensued between the Defence Minister and the other ministers regarding the conscription law as well as the severe lack of soldiers needed on the front line. Galant is at his wits end.
![Haredi anti-draft protest clashing with police](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/30/cc6d8c60-371f-11ef-92f9-1b32553736e2__h4912_w7360.jpg)
Haredi draft law, protests
Following the high courts rule to draft religious yeshiva students into the IDF, mass protests have broken out in Jerusalem as Haredim remain against serving.
![Haredi yeshivah.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/20/571c0110-2f10-11ef-a53f-1909d648c45b__h331_w650.jpg)
IDF, Haredim
UTJ MK Yitzhak Pindrus did not rule out establishing Haredi units - on one condition.
![MK Yair Lapid](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/17/f883d3f0-2cb0-11ef-b326-875a4c3cecda__h331_w650.jpg)
Yair Lapid, Haredi Draft Law
MK Yair Lapid urged Knesset members to stay in the Knesset day and night until his version of an Haredi draft law is passed.
![Chief of Staff Halevi.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/16/b56c5dc0-2bf3-11ef-b326-875a4c3cecda__h1066_w1600.webp)
Israel-Gaza War
Halevi spoke to soldiers of how "every battalion" formed from Haredi recruits helps relieve thousands of reservists from defensive duties.
![Israeli singer-songwriter Hanan Ben Ari performs at the opening ceremony of the Maccabiah Games in Jerusalem. July 14, 2022.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/14/31041eb0-2a18-11ef-a53f-1909d648c45b__h268_w400.jpg)
IDF, Charedim
Hanan Ben Ari issues a heartfelt plea for unity and enlistment amid national crisis.
![Haredim and IDF Soldiers at Western Wall](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/13/c2cd1940-2992-11ef-b326-875a4c3cecda__h2838_w4258.jpg)
IDF, Conscription Law, Opinion
The continuation of the controversial draft bill in Israel serves as a slap in the face to soldiers who have been serving since October 7th.
![Haredim, Bnei Brak, Israel, 2022](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/11/be2d4130-27b7-11ef-b326-875a4c3cecda__h1824_w2736.jpg)
Haredim, IDF
Legislation to lower exemption age for Yeshiva students faces political and legal hurdles.
![Being penalized for leaving the government? Benny Gantz.](https://images.jfeed.com/cdn-cgi/image/format=jpeg,fit=contain,width=300/2024/06/10/becbd190-26fb-11ef-b326-875a4c3cecda__h268_w400.jpg)
IDF, Conscription Law
Gantz is expected not to support the bill, and it is likely that other Likud Knesset members and The United Arab List will also oppose the vote.