Guatemalan Attorney General María Consuelo Porras met this week with Israeli Ambassador Alon Lavi and a delegation from Israel to discuss the ongoing investigation into alleged human trafficking by the extremist ultra-Orthodox sect Lev Tahor.Local media reported that authorities are…[Continue Reading...]
The Israeli military has enlisted the first batch of about 50 recruits into its new ultra-Orthodox brigade after a controversial decision to end their decades-long exemption from service. By the end of the day, about 100 additional ultra-Orthodox recruits will…[Continue Reading...]
Israel’s military has issued 1,126 arrest warrants for ultra-Orthodox conscripts who have not responded to drafting orders, in a move likely to fuel discontent over a controversial decision to remove their decades-long exemption from service. Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb announced…[Continue Reading...]
Several thousand ultra-Orthodox Jews blocked a major intersection in central Jerusalem on Thursday to protest against efforts to force them to enlist in the Israeli military like their secular compatriots. There were simultaneous disturbances in other parts of the city,…[Continue Reading...]
The Israeli army revealed on 21 August that only about 70 ultra-Orthodox Jewish men reported to military induction centers since Tel Aviv issued the first batch of draft orders to the Haredi sector last month in a bid to overcome…[Continue Reading...]
Protesters from Israel's ultra-Orthodox sector clashed with police on Wednesday, with violence breaking out as they rallied at a recruitment center in Jerusalem. This comes after Rabbi Asher Deutsch of the "Committee to Save the World of Torah" called for…[Continue Reading...]
Dozens of extreme ultra-Orthodox rioters broke into the Tel Hashomer army base on Tuesday, protesting against draft orders that have been distributed to the sector. An illegal protest took place near the base, the Israel Defense Forces' main recruitment office,…[Continue Reading...]
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox Shas party urged potential conscripts Wednesday to ignore a call-up from the Israel Defense Forces, as political divisions over the controversial issue showed signs of widening. Ultra-Orthodox Jews, or Haredi, have traditionally been exempt from military service so…[Continue Reading...]
Haredi children were brought into the home of a convicted sex offender who posed an immediate danger to them, Meirav Ben Ari, from the Yesh Atid Party told the Knesset Education Committee on Monday. The kids were pupils in a…[Continue Reading...]
Defense Minister Yoav Gallant and the IDF have agreed together to issue draft orders to haredim on a massive scale sometime in the next month. A statement from the Defense Ministry did not give the number of draft orders which…[Continue Reading...]
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