Tag: yeshiva students

The OECD also recommended the government stop subsidies to yeshiva students, and increase funding for schools in the Arab sector.

Litzman: We have no interest in going to elections, but we can’t compromise on such a substantial and fundamental issue.

Shapira also noted the ministry delayed action on quotas because the number of recruits among haredi-religious yeshiva students was, in fact, rising annually.

The demonstrations were sparked by the arrest of two yeshiva students who refused to appear at the IDF enlistment office.

Convicted Palestinian Authority killer Taysir Abu Vesnina, a member of Mahmoud Abbas’ Fatah faction, has been elected Mayor of Hebron.

The Supreme Court ruling came after several appeals from so called good government groups.

Refusing service is "a commandment one must obey even at the cost of their own life."

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...

The plan is to stagger their recruitment, to allow IDF manpower officials to study the process.

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.

A majority of Israel's Supreme Court judges on Tuesday accepted petitions against the Tal Law, which provides an exemption from military service to yeshiva...

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.

Several readers took issue with the Monitor's statement last week that coverage of Israel by The New York Times, while still problematic on occasion, has improved markedly since Deborah Sontag left the paper's Jerusalem bureau nearly a decade ago.