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

Addressing critics who decry yeshiva students as "parasites" or "draft dodgers" with slogans like "equal burden," Rabbi Pinhasi argues that Torah learners are not shirking duty, they are fulfilling a sacred, indispensable service that safeguards the nation more powerfully than any military unit.

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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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Hotels for Yeshiva Heads, Balconies and Intersections for Rebbes

Hours Before the Mass Rally in Jerusalem – Where Will the Torah Leaders Stand? 

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Vort

That escalated quickly

‘Vort’ Returns to Prime Time – and Israel Explodes: “How Dare You Glorify Draft Dodgers in Wartime?”

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Mass Satmar protest

Satmar Loves Hamas

Why Satmar Hasidim Will Get Jews Killed | WATCH

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Mass rally against the draft decree in Manhattan

Stamra Has Lost the Plot

Tens of Thousands of Ultra-Orthodox Jews Rally Outside Israeli Consulate in Manhattan Against IDF Draft Law

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King of Jordan with Mahmoud Abbas

Concerning Escalation

Shock Move: Jordan to Bring Back Mandatory Draft Amid Israel Clash

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Ultra Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally against the jailing of Jewish seminary students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order outside the military prison in Beit Lid, near Netanya, August 14, 2025.

A Matter of Principle

Haredi Men Don't "Feel Like" Serving in the IDF

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Gafni.

Sure, Man

Gafni: The War Against the Haredim, Like the Persecution of the Romans

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Knesset in discussion

Coalition Majority Collapses

Coalition Fails to Pass Reservist Draft Orders After Committee No-Show

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Lt. Dr. Tz. and son.

An Inspiring Tale

The Former Haredi Doctor Who Enlisted

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MK Meir Porush

Start Being Afraid!

MK Porush Sounds Alarm: "Israel is Headed Toward Civil War – It’s Only a Matter of Time!"

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Haredi IDF recruits complete their beret march, August 6th, 2025

Times are changing

Why Haredi leadership is terrified of the Hashmonaim Brigade

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Protest against the draft.

So What Else Is New?

Dozens Protest In Jerusalem Against Conscription

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Protest in Petach Tikva, July 29, 2025

Rift in Haredi Leadership

"What, He’s Sephardi?”: Arrest of Yeshiva Bochur Ignites Firestorm in Haredi Politics

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Funeral of late IDF soldier Bezalel Yehoshua Mosbacher, who died from his wounds after being injured in combat in the southern Gaza Strip, July 27, 2025.

Better late than never?

Goldknopf tries to apologize for his controversial statements | WATCH

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Yitzchak Goldknopf, Minister of Construction and Housing arrives to United Torah Judaism party meeting at the Knesset, the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on May 19 , 2025.

Callous Disregrad For Others

Goldknopf: "Deaths of religious IDF soldiers are not my problem"

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Horrific

Shocking Video: Driver Rams Into Haredi Protester in Jerusalem, Drags Him on Car 

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