Some 50 ultra-Orthodox recruits were drafted into the Israel Defense Forces’ new Hasmonean Brigade on Sunday at the army’s Tel Hashomer induction center in Ramat Gan. The soldiers will form the ...

The term "Haredim" (or "Haredi" in singular) refers to ultra-Orthodox Jews, the most devout and observant group ... Haredi men typically wear black suits, overcoats, and large fur hats, while women ...

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men and women have been largely exempt from army service since the establishment of Israel in 1948, while secular and traditional Jewish men and women must serve for a ...

Israeli Defence Minister Israel Katz has said on Thursday that a draft law to conscript ultra-Orthodox Jews into the army, who had previously been exempt, is not a "moral issue," dismissing the ...

Israel’s former defence minister has resigned from the country’s parliament over the government’s intention to exempt ultra-Orthodox Jewish men from army service. Yoav Gallant, a senior member of ...

A man lights candles for the festival of Hanukkah at the ultra-Orthodox Jewish community Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, Dec. 29, 2024. (Photo by Gil Cohen Magen/Xinhua) A man lights candles for the ...

Luke Tress is The Times of Israel's New York correspondent. NEW YORK — Nearly half of ultra-Orthodox Jews in the United States know someone targeted by antisemitism in the aftermath of Hamas’s ...

He told the brigade's ultra-Orthodox fighters "we will preserve the Haredi lifestyle of the soldiers here - there is no contradiction between devout Judaism and combat, courage, and battle.

Vladimir Putin accused Jews of attacking the Russian Orthodox Church and suggested that they lacked family and “roots,” the latest antisemitic statement from the Russian leader since his 2022 ...