Haredi population in israel

Diaspora Jewry is not dying, it is changing - opinion

Judaism is not disappearing; it is changing its forms of expression. The challenges must not be ignored. Assimilation exists, and in some communities, there is also a decline in numbers.

|ByRENANA BIRNBAUM
AN ISRAEL Day event on Fifth Avenue in Manhattan takes place last June. There is a significant increase in the number of Diaspora Jews who identify with Israel and show increased involvement in Jewish activity in their community, according to a JPPI survey cited by the writer.
An Israeli soldier guard as young men gathered during a demonstration by Ultra-Orthodox Jews against Israel's military draft on June 17, 2026 outside the Beit Lid military base in Kfar Yona, Israel. The conscription of young ultra-Orthodox men into the military, from which they were long exempt.

Likud MK Kallner opposes criminal arrests for haredi draft evaders, backs economic sanctions

Kallner, a member of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, told 103FM that he does not think arresting yeshiva students is 'the right way.'

|By103FM
A haredi man looks on as traffic builds at Hemed Interchange on Highway 1 amid ultra-Orthadox anti-draft protests, June 24, 2026.

Following hours of haredi draft protests, Israeli highways reopen to traffic

Protests cause heavy traffic on 29 major roads • Social media footage shows protesters and secular citizens in violent physical altercations • MKs Goldknopf, Malkieli attended protests

|ByALON HACHMON, AVI SOLOMON, AARON GLICK
PRIME MINISTER Benjamin Netanyahu is seen walking past haredi lawmaker Yitzhak Goldknopf, at the Prime Minister’s Office in 2023.

Goldknopf protests 'exclusion' of haredi West Bank communities from budget in letter to Netanyahu

"How is it possible that the budgets, development, and benefits that reach the other communities never reach the ultra-Orthodox population centers in Judea and Samaria?" Goldknopf asked.

|ByANNA BARSKY

Meron tragedy is a reminder that the haredim are part of us - opinion

Perhaps this horrific moment can become that kind of turning point for haredi integration into Israeli society. But it will only happen with leadership.

MAY 4, 2021ByGIL TROY
Ultra-orthodox Jews light candles for the 45 victims who were killed in a stampede, at the scene of the fatal disaster, at Mt Meron. May 01, 2021.

How can the Jewish people learn to sit with each other again - opinion

Unfortunately, recent statements within Israeli political discourse have undermined our ability to have an honest and genuine discourse with world Jewry.

MARCH 13, 2021ByOMER YANKELEVITCH
MEN PRAY last year at the Western Wall.

More haredim in Jerusalem looking for jobs during pandemic, new data shows

Some 1,587 haredi men and 785 haredi women were hired in Jerusalem this past year, a 35% increase since 2014.

MARCH 12, 2021ByTOBIAS SIEGAL
A haredi family walks down the street in the Makor Baruch neighborhood of Jerusalem

Coronavirus and the haredim: By the numbers

Why the haredi status quo cannot be sustained

MARCH 11, 2021ByVIVIAN BERCOVICI
Gathering at the Rashbi gravesite, Meron, June 6, 2020

Haredi impunity and autonomy: Tantamount to insurrection?

‘We will violate the laws of the state’

FEBRUARY 26, 2021ByVIVIAN BERCOVICI
A typical street scene in the bustling modern-day shtetl of Jerusalem's Mea She'arim neighborhood.

A rabbi’s open letter to his haredi brethren

I now understand that your goal was not to keep Jews Jewish – but to keep haredim haredi

FEBRUARY 18, 2021ByAHARON E. WEXLER
HAREDIM RALLY against coronavirus restrictions in Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim neighborhood on February 9.

Haredi-secular civil war: Dystopian fiction cuts close to home - opinion

Autonomies, the TV show, is fiction, of course, but haredi autonomy is quite real in today’s Israel.

FEBRUARY 11, 2021ByBRIAN BLUM
SCREENSHOT FROM the ‘Autonomies’ TV show on a fictional haredi secession.

Haredi protests in Jerusalem continue against light rail construction

The protesters, numbering in the hundreds, at Bar Ilan Junction, burned garbage cans and blocked the road, as well as damaged passing vehicles and the current construction areas of the light rail.

JANUARY 26, 2021BySARAH BEN-NUN
Haredi protesters burn garbage in protest of the light rail construction in their ultra-Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, January 25, 2021.

COVID-19 highlights the haredi fissure in Israeli society - analysis

Deri realizes that the type of behavior being broadcast nightly into the homes of frustrated and angry Israelis could lead to a backlash against the haredi public.

JANUARY 19, 2021ByHERB KEINON
POLICE IN Jerusalem detain a haredi protester last week.

COVID haredi unit head: Enforcement ineffective

Speaking in an online press conference, Numa said infection rates in the ultra-Orthodox sector now account for a quarter of all infections.

JANUARY 3, 2021ByJEREMY SHARON
Israeli police officers clash with Ultra Orthodox Jewish men during a protest against the enforcement of coronavirus emergency regulations, in the Ultra Orthodox jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, October 4, 2020