The protesters initially disrupted traffic both around the entrance to Jerusalem and on Highway 38. Police announced that ...

Israel Police arrested at least nine members of the extremist Peleg Yerushalmi sect who blocked Highway 4 near Bnei Brak to ...

Tensions escalated in recent months as Haredi community continues to oppose military conscription - Anadolu Ajansı ...

Lapid slams stipends given to draft evaders, calls for government funding for ultra-Orthodox to be withheld; lawmakers advance bill banning use of 'skunk' spray at protests The post Haredi protesters ...

An Israel Democracy Institute researcher says the violence reflects long-standing shifts within haredi society and mounting ...

Lawyers representing the detainees in Bnei Brak claim that most of them were passersby who were not involved in the riots.

In recent weeks, repeated arrests of draft-eligible yeshiva students, demonstrations in Jerusalem, and mounting coalition ...

US Embassy issues warnings to staff amid Ramadan, haredi protests - Israel National News flashes around the clock are waiting for you on the site ...

This catastrophic situation in Israel is the fault of the haredi leadership.

Yet the Haredi extremists who hunted soldiers in black hats acted nothing like David’s psalms of peace. They behaved more like the divided tribes during Absalom’s rebellion, when brother turned ...

A recent study found that by 2050, nearly one in four Israelis will be ultra-Orthodox; leaders have only started to grapple with how that will change the country The post Bnei Brak riot shows that to ...

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox anti-draft demonstrators are clashing with police and blocking Route 4 near the Haredi city of Bnei Brak to protest the arrest of two suspected draft evaders last night.