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The article discusses the growing tension between Israel's ultra-Orthodox community and the government over military service, particularly in the context of the ongoing war in Gaza. It highlights the historical exemption, the recent Supreme Court ruling, and the resulting political crisis, including protests and draft dodging. The piece also explores differing perspectives within the ultra-Orthodox community.
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- The article discusses the growing tension between Israel's ultra-Orthodox community and the government over military service, particularly in the context of the ongoing war in Gaza. It highlights the historical exemption, the recent Supreme Court ruling, and the resulting political crisis, including protests and draft dodging. The piece also explores differing perspectives within the ultra-Orthodox community.
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Police officers on horseback tried to keep order as water cannons on trucks sprayed \u201cskunk water,\u201d a vile-smelling liquid, to disperse the crowd.Outside the nearby Mir Yeshiva, one of the largest and most prestigious religious schools in the country, Haim Bamberger, 23, said he was studying the Torah, as, he said, God wanted. It was Mr. Bamberger\u2019s way of defending Israel, rather than through military service. \u201cWhen we do what he wants, he protects us,\u201d he said.The Hamas-led attack on Israel on Oct. 7, 2023, that killed nearly 1,200 people and led to the taking of roughly 250 hostages, Mr. Bamberger said, \u201cwas partly because many people in this country are not doing what God wants.\u201dMr. Bamberger said he had been drafted but was ignoring his notice and risking jail. He grew more animated as he spoke. \u201cIn this country I\u2019m considered a criminal,\u201d he said, \u201cbecause I want to study Torah.\u201dDays later, the Israeli military police began arresting ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers. Only a few have been detained so far, according to multiple Israeli news reports, but on Aug. 14, hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protested and clashed with the police outside a prison where the Ynet Hebrew news site reported that seven were held.For now, at a time of rage among the ultra-Orthodox and building tension between the military and the government over Gaza, the military is holding off on mass arrests.A Political CrisisMilitary service is compulsory for most Jewish Israelis, both men and women. The exemption for the ultra-Orthodox, known in Hebrew as Haredim, has long been resented by the rest of the Jewish population. But the nearly two-year war in Gaza has turned an irritant into a political crisis that is deepening divisions in Israeli society and imperiling Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu\u2019s fragile coalition.Last month, two ultra-Orthodox parties crucial to Mr. Netanyahu\u2019s majority in Parliament withdrew from the government after it did not pass legislation exempting the ultra-Orthodox from the draft. Their move could lead to the collapse of the prime minister\u2019s coalition and early elections, although Mr. Netanyahu has survived far worse political threats.Want to stay updated on what\u2019s happening in Israel? Sign up for Your Places: Global Update, and we\u2019ll send our latest coverage to your inbox.\u201cThe war has pushed everything to an extreme,\u201d said Nechumi Yaffe, a professor of public policy at Tel Aviv University who is ultra-Orthodox. Secular Israelis are asking, she said, \u201cWhy should our children die and your children are just sitting drinking coffee and learning?\u201dProfessor Yaffe said she had polling that showed 25 percent of Haredi men would enlist if they were not ostracized by their communities for doing so, as many are, and another 25 percent would enlist with some encouragement. She said attitudes were softening within less extreme ultra-Orthodox sects, although many rabbis are resisting change.\u201cThe rabbis are feeling like they\u2019re losing control,\u201d she said.ImageA protest in Jerusalem last year after the Israeli Supreme Court ruled that the military could begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men.Credit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York TimesThe policy dates to Israel\u2019s beginnings in 1948, when David Ben-Gurion, the nation\u2019s founding prime minister, granted the exemption to the 400 yeshiva students in the country at the time. Ben-Gurion envisioned their Torah study \u2014 which they believed would safeguard Israel from its enemies \u2014 as part of a revitalization of Jewish religious scholarship lost in the Holocaust.But as the ultra-Orthodox population grew, the policy was extended, setting off backlash and legal challenges over many years. It did not help that the most extreme ultra-Orthodox sects were anti-Zionists who do not recognize the state of Israel because, they say, it was founded by secular Jews and not for a divine purpose.In June 2024, the Israeli Supreme Court finally ruled in a landmark decision that without a formal law there was no legal basis for the exemption, and ordered the military to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men.The military says it urgently needs 12,000 new recruits for a force exhausted by Gaza. More than 450 Israeli soldiers have died in the enclave, suicides are on the rise and fewer Israeli reservists, the bulk of the fighters, are reporting for duty. Many have spent more than 400 days in service since the war began.Others are questioning the government\u2019s goals in a campaign that has killed more than 60,000 people in Gaza, according to local health officials, who do not distinguish between combatants and civilians. A group of experts who monitor food security declared on Friday that Gaza City and the surrounding territory are suffering from famine, a situation that has drawn global condemnation. The Israeli security agency that oversees aid deliveries in the enclave rejected the finding.Mr. Netanyahu, at odds with top generals, is now moving forward with plans to take over Gaza City.The Israeli military announced Aug. 20 that 60,000 new reservists would be called to duty and that 20,000 would have their orders extended, bringing the total number of reservists to serve across all fronts in Israel to roughly 120,000, according to a senior military official who requested anonymity under military ground rules.ImageA wedding in Beit Shemesh, Israel, last year. The number of ultra-Orthodox in Israel has grown to about one million today \u2014 roughly 13 percent of the population. Any exemption for the group from serving in the military is seen as unsustainable. Credit...Sergey Ponomarev for The New York TimesThe Israeli military says that 80,000 ultra-Orthodox men between the ages of 18 and 24 are eligible for service and that almost all were sent draft notices in the past year. So far, only 2,940 have enlisted, although there is time for others to sign up before a series of deadlines. Most of the 2,940 will not be ready to go to war now, but will be able to do so after the Israeli military\u2019s six months of training.Their number is still far off the military\u2019s target of 4,800 ultra-Orthodox enlistees for the year, \u201cand even further from the army\u2019s needs,\u201d Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb, who is in charge of military personnel, told a committee in Parliament on Aug. 12.The future promises more strains. The number of ultra-Orthodox in Israel has exploded to about one million today \u2014 roughly 13 percent of the population \u2014 from 40,000 in 1948. Some 22 percent of 6-year-olds were Haredi in 2024. By 2035, their numbers are projected to reach 30 percent.Any exemption for them is seen as unsustainable. \u201cThis is the math talking,\u201d said Inbar Harush Gity, the Defense Ministry\u2019s former head of recruitment of the ultra-Orthodox into the Israeli military.The ultra-Orthodox are unmoved.\u201cIt may be that the circumstances have changed and the times have changed,\u201d Motti Babchik, the powerful political adviser to one of the ultra-Orthodox parties that left the government, said in an interview. \u201cBut the basic agreement between the Haredis and the state of Israel remains the same.\u201d\u2018Is Their Blood More Red?\u2019Rabbi Tamir Granot\u2019s son Capt. Amitai Granot, 24, was killed by a Hezbollah missile on the border with Lebanon in October 2023, eight days after the Hamas-led attack on Israel. The following March, Rabbi Granot delivered an impassioned speech, widely shared on YouTube, calling on the ultra-Orthodox to serve and share in the pain.\u201cWas Amitai wrong?\u201d his father asked. \u201cIs it for naught that he now lies under clumps of earth beneath Mount Herzl, he and all his comrades who lie there with him, and other cemeteries around Israel? Should they have stayed in yeshiva and left the army and self-sacrifice to secularists only?\u201dRabbi Granot is part of a different stream of Orthodox Judaism, religious Zionism, which is an integral part of Israeli society and sends large numbers of its yeshiva students to the military. In an interview at his Tel Aviv yeshiva, Rabbi Granot recounted how he went to the homes of ultra-Orthodox religious leaders after his son\u2019s death and tried to reason with them. He told them, he said, that he had students in his yeshiva \u2014 he called them his children \u2014 and, like his son, they knew they had to serve.ImageRabbi Tamir Granot, whose 24-year-old son was killed by a Hezbollah missile on the border with Lebanon in 2023, at his home in Tel Aviv this month.Credit...Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York TimesHe posed a question to the Haredi leaders: \u201cSo why are your children better than them? Is their blood more red than our blood?\u201dSome leaders agreed that the ultra-Orthodox should serve, he said, but none would say so publicly. \u201cOne of the biggest told me, \u2018I can\u2019t do it.\u2019 I asked him why. He told me, \u2018If I will do it, I will not exist.\u2019\u201dIn other words, Rabbi Granot said, \u201che will lose his status in society and everyone else from the leadership would say he\u2019s not a rabbi.\u201dThe issue has only intensified since then. Last month, in a video made public of an emergency meeting about the Haredi draft, Hillel Hirsch, a leading ultra-Orthodox rabbi, unequivocally told a small group of colleagues that most Haredi yeshiva students do not want to serve. \u201cThey never dreamed of it; they don\u2019t dream of it now,\u201d he said.Another rabbi, Yoel Shapira, spoke up and offered a reality check. \u201cBut this is becoming a conversation everywhere,\u201d he said. \u201cIn all the yeshivas it\u2019s becoming a topic.\u201d In one of the most important yeshivas, he said, referring to a military intelligence corps, \u201cboys are saying that so-and-so has a brother in Unit 8200 and he doesn\u2019t feel uncomfortable that he has such a brother.\u201dMany young Haredim use \u201ckosher phones\u201d similar to the old flip-tops, but some also secretly keep smartphones, which have given them access to the outside world and, particularly, to secular Israel, where service in the Israeli military is seen as an entry into adulthood and the collective defense of the nation.\u201cLiving in Israel, not being in the army, it\u2019s a situation that you\u2019re always going to be apologizing for,\u201d said Nechemia Steinberger, a Haredi lecturer and rabbi in Jerusalem who enlisted in the military in 2021 at 37. \u201cI felt, even though it\u2019s a later stage in life, \u2018I\u2019ve got to do it.\u2019\u201d\u2018Brother, We\u2019re the Same People\u2019Rabbi Arie Amit, a member of the Chabad Lubavitch sect, which is more inclined than other ultra-Orthodox groups to engage with the outside world, was among the first Haredim in Israel to enlist. It was 2001, he was soon to be 18, and the second intifada, a mass uprising of Palestinians against Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza, had started the year before.ImageRabbi Arie Amit, a member of the Chabad Lubavitch sect in Bat Yam, Israel, last month. He was among the first Haredim in Israel to enlist in the military.Credit...Avishag Shaar-Yashuv for The New York Times\u201cI saw in the newspapers that people were blowing up in the streets, and I didn\u2019t see myself studying Torah all day,\u201d he said in an interview in a cafe in the city of Bat Yam, just south of Tel Aviv. \u201cSo I thought I could contribute to my people much better in the military.\u201dHe now handles logistics at a temporary base just inside the Gaza border, and said he understood why so many Israelis were upset with the ultra-Orthodox.\u201cPeople are being killed, or people are serving many, many months,\u201d he said. \u201cIt\u2019s like: Brother, we\u2019re the same people. Why aren\u2019t you contributing to the burden that we\u2019re carrying?\u201dElisabeth Bumiller is a writer-at-large for The Times. She was most recently Washington bureau chief. Previously she covered the Pentagon, the White House, the 2008 McCain campaign and City Hall for The Times.Natan Odenheimer is a Times reporter in Jerusalem, covering Israeli and Palestinian affairs.A version of this article appears in print on Aug. 24, 2025, Section A, Page 1 of the New York edition with the headline: Ultra-Orthodox Confront a Call To Israel\u2019s Army. 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Middle East CrisisThe LatestGaza Famine ReportIsraelβs Widening OffensiveResisting the Call to FightFear in Gaza CityMediation EffortsChildhood in GazaIt was 11 p.m. in Jerusalem, and one of the cityβs most insular ultra-Orthodox communities was in a furor.Hundreds of men in black suits and black hats of the Edah Haredit sect grew agitated as a top rabbi, shouting in Yiddish from a balcony, denounced the Israeli government for drafting the ultra-Orthodox. They had been exempt from military service to focus on religious study since the founding of Israel, but now they were needed for the war in Gaza.A large fire blazed in the street, set by ultra-Orthodox protesters who had ignited a dumpster. Police officers on horseback tried to keep order as water cannons on trucks sprayed βskunk water,β a vile-smelling liquid, to disperse the crowd.Outside the nearby Mir Yeshiva, one of the largest and most prestigious religious schools in the country, Haim Bamberger, 23, said he was studying the To...
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bc1-67e9-4a37-ad61-5e66fc491702Simplified: One of Jerusalem's most insular ultra-Orthodox communities was in a furor
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Demographics , Projections π a1161bdb-efb9-4cb5-8d30-2fa0d7404158Simplified: By 2035 their numbers are projected to reach 30 percent
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They had been exempt from military service to focus on religious study since the founding of Israel.1.000π€ The author π News Article π a1161bc4-5cf4-4143-bcb5-7412d756187eSimplified: They had been exempt from military service to focus on religious study since the founding of Israel
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A large fire blazed in the street, set by ultra-Orthodox protesters who had ignited a dumpster.1.000π€ The author π News Article π a1161bc6-29d7-482d-aee9-3b1deacfdebaSimplified: A large fire blazed in the street set by ultra-Orthodox protesters who ignited a dumpster
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bc7-1e68-4d7b-81f7-ff177231c4e5Simplified: Police officers on horseback tried to keep order as water cannons sprayed skunk water to disperse the crowd
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bc7-eb77-4f91-b7dd-408fe8db68d0Simplified: Haim Bamberger said he was studying the Torah as God wanted
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bcb-abdf-4ea1-8814-7c2776f9300fSimplified: Mr. Bamberger said he had been drafted but was ignoring his notice and risking jail
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Conflict , Historical π a114b5a7-894d-49f8-8c57-6d1dc2807463Simplified: Gaza war was triggered in October 2023 when Palestinian Hamas militants attacked Israel killing 1200 people and taking 251 hostages
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βIn this country Iβm considered a criminal,β he said, βbecause I want to study Torah.β1.000π€ Haim Bamberger π News Article π a1161bcc-dd9b-41a4-9aec-d07f0bbc10bcSimplified: In this country I am considered a criminal because I want to study Torah
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bcd-f501-44d6-9f25-86dbd30c6a15Simplified: Days later the Israeli military police began arresting ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bcf-950a-4eae-8af2-7ec71e26e2bbSimplified: On Aug 14 hundreds of ultra-Orthodox protested and clashed with the police outside a prison where seven were held
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Journalism , Military π a1161a02-3670-4536-a1c9-d2a8fca8f4a9Simplified: In Israel military experience is common among journalists because most young people are required to serve in the military
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bd3-14fa-4bb1-afaf-22a6a4db0815Simplified: The nearly two-year war in Gaza has turned an irritant into a political crisis that is deepening divisions in Israeli society and imperiling Prime Min...
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bd4-22e0-4de2-bed7-61ddc89b7d00Simplified: Last month two ultra-Orthodox parties withdrew from the government after it did not pass legislation exempting the ultra-Orthodox from the draft
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bc2-3599-4912-b32a-480e0af6d048Simplified: Hundreds of men in black suits and black hats of the Edah Haredit sect grew agitated
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bd5-1f66-42af-9662-53fc9b67fce7Simplified: Their move could lead to the collapse of the prime ministerβs coalition and early elections
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π€ Nechumi Yaffe π News Article π a1161bd7-19dd-4119-b10b-c8616dde1aeeSimplified: Secular Israelis are asking why should our children die and your children are just sitting drinking coffee and learning
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π€ Nechumi Yaffe π News Article π a1161bd7-e210-432b-a903-e10f897c7b8bSimplified: Polling showed 25 percent of Haredi men would enlist if not ostracized and another 25 percent would enlist with some encouragement
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π€ Nechumi Yaffe π News Article π a1161bd8-e9b3-4340-8d48-c09427a2a5e3Simplified: Attitudes were softening within less extreme ultra-Orthodox sects
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π€ Nechumi Yaffe π News Article π a1161bd9-ab88-4167-8514-2db2b58cf7c1Simplified: The rabbis are feeling like they are losing control
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Historical , Religion π a1161bda-4103-429d-b0e1-973761a557a0Simplified: Ben-Gurion envisioned Torah study safeguarding Israel from its enemies.
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Simplified: The military urgently needs 12000 new recruits.
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Simplified: Many have spent more than 400 days in service since the war began.
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Politics , Geopolitics π a1161921-055a-4f1c-aaef-1d51418ea0a3Simplified: Israeli government faces international fury over its conduct of war against Hamas in Gaza
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Simplified: The rest of Gazaβs total population of two million people was also struggling with severe hunger
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Simplified: The Israeli security agency rejected the groupβs findings
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Demographics , Religion π a1161bdb-5fc1-4de2-831f-03e9d667fce3Simplified: Ultra-Orthodox in Israel number about one million today roughly 13 percent of population
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Military , Demographics π a1161bdb-8792-4e3a-91b1-e5e3965809a4Simplified: Only 2940 have enlisted so far
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π€ Brig. Gen. Shay Tayeb π News Article π·οΈ Military , Demographics π a1161bdb-b0b6-48b3-b9d4-773f8ab068ecSimplified: Their number is far off military's target of 4800 ultra-Orthodox enlistees for year
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Demographics , Religion π a1161bdb-dc16-4dc8-ba8f-9c16780e6463Simplified: 22 percent of 6-year-olds were Haredi in 2024
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π€ Inbar Harush Gity π News Article π·οΈ Military , Recruitment π a1161bdc-0835-4cd2-8b66-93934c6afde3Simplified: This is math talking
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Some leaders agreed that the ultra-Orthodox should serve, he said, but none would say so publicly.0.900π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Religion , Military π a1161bdc-5ca7-4c99-937b-f1e171b4f837Simplified: Some leaders agreed ultra-Orthodox should serve but none would say so publicly
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Technology , Religion π a1161bdc-7e7e-45e6-96c4-50de26801de7Simplified: Many young Haredim use kosher phones but some secretly keep smartphones
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π€ The author π News Article π·οΈ Historical , Military π a1161bdc-9ec3-4308-9152-b4519400ee82Simplified: It was 2001 he was soon to be 18 and second intifada had started year before
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bdc-ace0-4509-b336-3389372c06f8Simplified: He handles logistics at temporary base inside Gaza border
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161d45-2106-4a37-9453-b077149e5bccSimplified: People are being killed or serving many months
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bdc-b750-4c47-8f81-27839b25d736Simplified: Elisabeth Bumiller is writer-at-large for The Times
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bdc-c2a2-44af-bef0-87f88480b322Simplified: She was Washington bureau chief
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π€ The author π News Article π a1161bdc-cdcd-4335-a3f3-6aa3ad44f196Simplified: She covered the Pentagon White House 2008 McCain campaign City Hall for The Times
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Simplified: Natan Odenheimer contributed reporting article
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Simplified: A version article appears in print on Aug 21 2025 Section A Page 9 New York edition headline Gazans Are Scrambling As an Offensive Looms