Litzman: We have no interest in going to elections, but we can’t compromise on such a substantial and fundamental issue.
The demonstrations were sparked by the arrest of two yeshiva students who refused to appear at the IDF enlistment office.
JewishPress.com received an eye witness account of a Grad missile that landed in Naveh, a mere 100 meters from the Otzem (Atzmona) Premilitary Academy. Shocked yeshiva students had just finished lunch and were outside when the rocket slammed down in front of them, with shrapnel landing a mere few yards away from where they were […]
The plan is to stagger their recruitment, to allow IDF manpower officials to study the process.
By Tibbi Singer
Haredi consumers are not, by and large, part of Israel's social protest movement, but their shopping savvy, it turns out, is evolving constantly.
From elected officials to people in the street, from the highly educated secular upper class to yeshiva students to the working poor, numerous Israelis seem to share a lexicon and intellectual framework which denigrates and dehumanizes Africans, belittles their suffering, and trivialized their plight.
Lapid: "By the 31st of July . . . behind our backs, as always, they will extend the Tal Law again."
Meir Dagan expresses opposition to the law.
The law sought to increase the numbers of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students serving in the IDF.
