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- "As reservists went to war with expired armor and broken helmets, the Friends of the IDF imploded in allegations of misconduct. But the real scandal was ideological, and rooted in a U.S.-Israel relationship that undermined Israel’s security from within"
- "Republican critics, for their part, do recognize these achievements but argue that Trump’s diplomacy is squandering them"
- A Century of Genocides: Next Trigger-Man, Iran
- “The Iranians hold the Obama legacy in their hands”
- Mahmoud Abbas: "The Palestinian leader is nothing if not a shrewd politician"
- For those who hadn’t noticed, we’ve been at war since 1979: “Iran’s revolutionary theocratic government has harassed and terrorized the United States and her allies for four decades”
- Twenty years, $2 trillion, and the most powerful army in the world were no match for the one thing the Taliban has—and that current American leadership has lost
- "There’s no way to whitewash Erdogan’s antisemitic remarks. He defends them by pointing to the suffering of Gaza’s residents at the hands of what he describes as “Israeli aggression”"
Tag Archives: ultra-Orthodox
All 54,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews eligible for military service will be called on to arrive for actual service by July 2026
JPOST IDF to summon over 50,000 ultra-Orthodox Jews in massive push for haredi draft Yonah Jeremy Bob July 6, 2025 The army on Sunday started summoning all 54,000 remaining eligible haredim for IDF service in the largest ever coordinated mass … Continue reading
Western Wall: New non-Orthodox section will enable all denominations to pray at Jerusalem’s iconic holy site
TIMES OF ISRAEL Western Wall prayer fight ends with historic compromise by Ben Sales January 31, 2016 Israel’s government has approved a compromise to expand the non-Orthodox Jewish prayer section of the Western Wall, putting to rest the decades-long fight … Continue reading
How Not to Help the Ultra-Orthodox
MOSAIC MAGAZINE by Peter Berkowitz December 8, 2014 Liberal democracies like Israel need and depend on pious people. But they don’t need to— and shouldn’t—subsidize grown men for not working…..Yet they are generally exempt from military service and, thanks to … Continue reading
Thousands of Israeli Druze and Jews grieve at funeral for policeman slain in terror attack
YNET by Kobi Nachshoni November 19, 2014 Thousands of Israeli Druze and Jews grieve at funeral for policeman slain in terror attack Hundreds of people from Haredi sector respond to calls on social media to accompany Master Sergeant Zidan Saif … Continue reading
The police spy who found his ‘brothers’ in Mea Shearim
TIMES OF ISRAEL by Abraham Rabinovich October 3, 2014 Veteran reporter Abraham Rabinovich’s new book ‘Jerusalem on Earth’ deals with the evolution of the city in the decades after the 1967 Six Day War. This exclusive excerpt tells the story … Continue reading
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Tagged Abraham Rabinovich, Hanan, Haredim, Jerusalem, Mea Shearim, ultra-Orthodox
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Shunning taboo, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox seek to volunteer for IDF
TIMES OF ISRAEL by Elhanan Miller August 5, 2014 ‘We want to show both the army and our own public that there is a different way of doing things,’ says Haredi coordinator An unusual advertisement appeared on a number of … Continue reading
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