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Deri and Uri Maklev in the Kneseet
Coalition Crisis Deepens

Gedolei Yisrael Delay Draft Law Decision Over Coalition Math Concerns

Senior Haredi officials reveal rabbinic leadership requested vote count before final decision • UTJ and Shas sources warn Prime Minister lacks Knesset majority | "Too many rebels in the coalition" (Haredim)

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Yeshiva students learn in Hebron yeshiva

No easy answers

"The Army Will Collapse": IDF Chief Issues Dire Warning Over Draft Crisis

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IDF Chief of Staff Lt. Gen. Eyal Zamir

Red Flags at the Cabinet

"Fulfill Your Responsibility": IDF Chief Warns Lawmakers of Impending Soldier Shortage

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Yeshiva student

Draft crisis

The Vaad HaYeshivot's Rules for Haredi Students Ahead of Purim and Passover

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Rabbi Dov Lando

"Not a Single Student"

 Rabbi Dov Lando Issues Defiant Stand Against Draft

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Baba Sali's Hilula

Baba Baruch: "Whoever Does Not Study Torah Must Enlist"

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Rav Dov lando

Trust your rabbis

Rav Dov Lando: "Don't Participate in Anti-Draft Protests"

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Scene of the bus incident

Run Over and Dragged by Public Bus

WATCH BREAKING: Teen Killed as Bus Driver Ploughs Through Jerusalem Anti-Draft Protest

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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men block a road during a protest against the jailing of seminary students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order on Road 4 near Bnei Brak, December 28, 2025.

Draft law chaos

Peleg Yerushalmi Faction Blocks Route 4 in Draft Protest

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Young Israelis arrive at the IDF Bakum Reception and Sorting base in Tel Hashomer in Israel, on April 18, 2024.

Not enough soldiers

Report: IDF Considered Drafting Children of Foreign Workers in Late 2023

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Ultra Orthodox Jewish men clash with police during a protest against the jailing of a Jewish seminary student who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, on Bar Ilan road, Jerusalem. December 18, 2025.

All this for a parking ticket

New Details Emerge as Jerusalem Riots Continue

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Haredim protesting the arrest of a yeshiva student

Fascinating Perspective

Is the Draft Bill Being Used to Prevent Judicial Reform?

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MK Gadi Eizenkot attends a Defense and Foreign Affairs Committee meeting on the ultra-Orthodox draft law at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem on July 17, 2024.

The draft law

Eizenkot to Netanyahu: "Stop Before You Bring Destruction"

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Israeli minister of Finance Bezalel Smotrich seen after a press conference at the Ministry of Finance in Jerusalem on December 4, 2025.

After consultations

Smotrich: Religious Zionist Party Will Support Draft Law

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Soldiers taking part in the Halacha L'Maaseh training learn how to defend their communities

A Big Step Forward

IDF Course Training Haredi Soldiers to Defend Their Homes Ends in Success

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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu

PM Cancels Address

Netanyahu Pulls Draft Speech at Last Minute as Bennett, Lapid Detonate Political Firestorm

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Flashpoint

Amid Draft Debates, Haredi Rabbi Explains: "We Do Serve (Just Differently)" 

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Rav Elazar Menachem Man Shach and Rav Aharon Leib Shteinman zt”l, together in 1989

Daas Torah has Spoken

What Rav Schach and Rav Shteinman ztz"l Really Thought About the Draft-Law War

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Rabbi Dov Lando

Draft Law Heats Up

Haredi Party Gives Green Light to Advance Draft Law, Opposition is Furious

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Pictures

In Color: Thousands of Haredim Mass in Jerusalem For the Anti-Draft Rally

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