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Haredi Jews arrive to the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer in central Israel on March 28, 2024. Photo by Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90.
Historic first: Haredi officer takes command of IDF battalion
Maj. (res) Yossi Levi calls for greater ultra-Orthodox enlistment, warning that increasing hostility to the religious group could widen the military draft gap.
JNS Staff
March 19, 2025
Haredi Jews attend the funeral of Yousef Kahn, one of the victims of the Meron tragedy, where 45 people were crushed to death on April 30 outside the Mir Yeshiva in Jerusalem, May 2, 2021. Photo by Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90.
How to integrate haredi men into Israeli society
The Israel Defense Forces must work with community leaders to accommodate religious practices.
Farley Weiss
Aug. 15, 2022
The Military Rabbinate Choir sings a capella at a memorial service honoring fallen Israel Defense Forces soldiers and those from the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) units on Yom Hazikaron, April 13, 2021. Credit: Netzach Yehuda Association.
Memorial Day ceremony honors fallen Israeli soldiers from ‘haredi’ units
The ceremony, first held in 2019 with some 1,200 people, was attended by hundreds of religious soldiers and members of the bereaved families.
April 14, 2021
Brig. Gen. Moshe Zin, deputy director general and head of civilian security of Israel's Ministry of Defense, and Udi Dror, head of recruitment, division of civilian security of the Defense Ministry, at the two-year memorial for fallen soldiers Staff Sgt. Yuval Mor-Yosef and Sgt. Yosef Cohen, December 2020. Credit: Netzach Yehuda.
Two years after attack, IDF battalion lights candles with bereaved families
A memorial to the fallen was erected at the site of the shooting, one of the worst attacks on IDF soldiers in recent years.
Dec. 16, 2020
A memorial for the second year in a row commemorated fallen soldiers in the Israel Defense Forces who fought in ultra-Orthodox units, April 27, 2020. Credit: Yakov Cohen.
Second memorial ceremony for fallen ultra-Orthodox soldiers goes virtual
“At first, we thought that it was incumbent on us to revive their memory, but we discovered that even more so, it is they, through our remembrance of them, who revive us,” said Rabbi Eliyahu Meirav.
April 28, 2020
Soldiers from the Israel Defense Forces' ultra-Orthodox unit, the Netzah Yehuda Battalion, at prayer, on June 20, 2005. Photo by Abir Sultan/Flash90.
Israeli soldiers say formal prayer for Jewish mourners worldwide amid pandemic
“I felt so relieved and at comfort that my mother could be properly honored during my time of mourning,” said Rabbi Shmuel Schwartz, the father of a paratrooper.
April 6, 2020
Israeli soldiers in the Nahal Haredi unit seen during a shooting exercise at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan Valley. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.
Navigating fine line between Torah observance and Israeli military service, politics aside
A new 50-page booklet intended to provide male soldiers with guidelines to maintain strict religious principles in a primarily secular and co-educational army sets off (yet another) firestorm with Yisrael Beiteinu leader Avigdor Lieberman, who slammed the publication.
Josh Hasten
Oct. 30, 2019
Religious soldiers attend a swearing-in ceremony at Ammunition Hill in Jerusalem upon entering the “Nahal Haredi” unit of the Israel Defense Forces, May 26, 2012. Photo by Miriam Alster/Flash90.
Creating options and opportunities for haredi youth to serve in the IDF
Friends of Nahal Haredi has been instrumental in assisting integration in the Israeli military, though its president cautions that the process will be one that occurs over generations.
Yaakov Lappin
Sept. 26, 2019
Israeli soldiers in the Nahal Haredi unit seen during a shooting exercise at the Peles Military Base in the northern Jordan Valley. Photo by Yaakov Naumi/Flash90.
The case for enlisting ‘haredi’ men into the Israeli military
If the issue is not addressed and ameliorated, it will remain a sticking point in forming future governments, as it has become now.
Alex Traiman
May 28, 2019