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IDF's Hashmonaim Brigade is finally on its way
Mazal Tov! 

IN COLOR: 150 HAREDI soldiers have started basic training

The IDF has begun recruiting for its new "Hashmonaim" (Hasmonean) Brigade, marking the first-ever dedicated combat unit for ultra-Orthodox Jews, with 50 active-duty soldiers and 100 reservists already enlisted.

Gila Isaacson
JAN 5, 2025
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Baruch Dayan HaEmet.

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Ultra-Orthodox Jews light candles on Hanukkah, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood on December 26, 2024

The Numbers Are In

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Never-ending Haredi draft saga

Does the IDF *really* want Haredi recruits?!

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Unprecedented

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Disturbing

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Israeli soldiers from Netzah Yehuda Battalion attend a swearing-in ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem's Old City, on July 10, 2024.

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Refusal to serve your country has no place on IDF bases

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Haredim on an Israeli bus

Don't just sit there - Do something

FIGHT BACK: Ultra-Orthodox Jews urged to respond to abuse

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Ultra Orthodox men protest mandatory recruitment into the IDF

How Draft Notices Became Toilet Paper 

Why Haredi teens are shaking in their (non-army) boots

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Brooklyn Bigamy Saga Ends 

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Breaking: The identities of the 5 Breslov Hasidim killed in the car accident

Released for publication: the names of the 5 victims of the fatal car crash in Morocco 

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Awful car accident in Morocco has 5 Haredi fatalities

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Jewish men study torah at the Yeshivat Hesder Yerucham, in southern Israel, February 20, 2024.

BETRAYERS OF TORAH

WATCH: Haredi Rabbi's condemnation of Hesder Yeshivot rocks Religious World

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Israeli Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in the Israeli Parliament in Jerusalem, on November 18, 2024

This is not ok

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Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef has spoken

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Gali Baharav-Miara takes on the Haredim

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Lieutenant Colonel Amram Hayon

Haredim in the IDF? 

IDF launches historic Ultra-Orthodox combat unit 'Hashmonaim', named after the Maccabees

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