Haredi demographics
Cutting support for Haredi families would weaken Israel’s demographic resilience, economy - opinion
Population decline can create a feedback loop. As populations shrink, the burden on younger generations grows, making it harder for young couples to raise families.
National-religious men overrepresented in IDF reserves as haredim stay absent, IDI analysis finds
Likud MK Kallner opposes criminal arrests for haredi draft evaders, backs economic sanctions
Equality requires universal draft, participation in economy and workforce, MK Liberman says
Law revoking requirement for haredi schools to teach core curriculum expected to pass
"Perhaps half of haredi parents want children to have general education at elementary school level," says haredi high-school principal.
Status quo?
Expanding the coalition offers opportunities: to end religious discrimination against non-Orthodox streams of Judaism; to break Orthodoxy’s monopoly of religious services.
Haredi change
The study, entitled “A Picture of the Nation,” found that among Jewish populations, there is more movement from religious schools to less religious schools than movement in the opposite direction.
Hundreds flock to English-tutoring project for haredi community
Former MK Rabbi Dov Lipman is helping with the project, which attracted almost a thousand participants in its first day.
Podcast: 'Things will change when we haredim are the majority'
On this episode of Taxicab Diplomacy, driver Oren gives his opinion on religion and the state.
More Haredi men working, as Arab women drop out of labor force
The percentage of working-age haredi men who were working increased 3 percentage points, reaching 52%. At the same time, the labor participation of Arab women fell roughly 1 percentage point.
The ‘haredi’ opportunity: changing the political map in Israel
I had, in my naiveté, assumed that an Israeli politician of so many years’ standing would have developed some sort of opinion on the matter...I was completely wrong.
Proposed amendment would delay haredi conscription another three years
Should enlistment quotas after 2020 not be met, then some economic sanctions would apply to yeshivas, but will be determined by the prime minister, defense minister, and finance minister.
Percent of ultra-Orthodox in workforce doubled since 2008, Economy Ministry finds
Minister of the Economy and Shas chairman Aryeh Deri says he hopes the study will encourage employers to hire haredi employees and help overcome prejudices.
Haredi ‘shlom bayit’and the health of the Jewish state
Academics have branded the haredim as abusers of social norms and accuse them of entering a state of “voluntary poverty”.