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Haredi recruits
First All-Haredi Brigade

WATCH: How Ultra-Orthodox soldiers swear loyalty without saying ‘I Swear’— The IDF’s ingenious compromise 

Amid partitioned seating and Talmudic blessings, the event at Modiin’s Maccabees’ Tombs marked a rare fusion of Haredi piety and IDF duty.

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FEB 28, 2025
Ultra-Orthodox Jews at an IDF enlistment office

Good Good, As they should

Report: The IDF Plans to Issue Thousands of Additional Enlistment Orders for Haredim

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Chabad soldier enlisting in brand new Haredi brigade

Finally someone pushing for enlistment equality

MK Evgeny Sova to IDF Chief of Staff: "Everyone should draft to the IDF, including Haredim"

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Haredim protesting the draft

Heating up

IDF hunts draft dodgers as Haredi Leaders Rally Against Military Draft

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Rabbi Tzvi Drabkin

"Torah Study is Our Real Defense"

Grodno Rosh Yeshiva Rav Tzvi Drabkin: "The IDF is successful ONLY because of Torah study"

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Haredi recruit to the Hashmonaim Brigade, 5 January 2025

Going against the flow

OPINION: Why Haredi recruits make me PROUD

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Mendel Roth discusses his decision to enlist in the IDF

Giyus Kal! 

Mendel Roth, Haredi popstar, just enlisted  – plus LISTEN to his stunning new song about his brave choice!

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MK Yitzhak Pindrus speaks during a plenum session at the assembly hall of the Israeli parliament in Jerusalem, on December 31, 2024

What was he thinking?!

OPINION: Why MK Pindrus makes my blood boil 

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Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, IDF soldier, Rabbi Yair Paran

The Torah teaches us to serve

Rav Ovadya Yosef's great grandson: Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef is "one of the biggest desecrators of God's name this year"

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New haredi IDF recruit with his parents

Unprecedented

Hundreds of Haredim make stunning choice to join IDF

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An ultra-Orthodox soldier in combat service

Enlisting Haredim

How many Haredim have enlisted: a tweet battle between the CEO and the reporter

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