Israeli educationWith a fertility rate that nearly triples the national average and increased political power that accompanies demographic growth, Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jews in Israel are becoming an increasingly important piece of the country's diverse national mosaic. This raises economic concerns: ...
Noun1.Haredi- any of several sects of Orthodox Judaism that reject modern secular culture and many of whom do not recognize the spiritual authority of the modern state of Israel Jewish Orthodoxy,Orthodox Judaism- Jews who strictly observe the Mosaic law as interpreted in the Talmud ...
As of 2018, the report showed, the number of Haredim employed in the tech industry was 9,700. This still amounts to just around 3% of the total number of employees in the sector, while Haredim amount to some 12% of Israel’s population. The rise in the number of Haredi tech employees...
These include technical and logistic roles in the Israel Air Force; a specialized track within the Logistics Command; a unit serving in the Israel Prison Service at Ofer Prison; the aforementioned Kodcode, Leybel’s brainchild, in which haredim served in Unit 8200, where they do not have to ...
If WeWork and a Yeshiva Had a Baby: Coworking Spaces for Haredi Jews Are Israel’s Latest Trend Jerusalem Launches Accelerator for Haredi Entrepreneurs Haredi Startups Are Looking to Disrupt the Israeli Tech Sector According to Wasserzug, lowering the age of exemption by just one year will lead...
Israel is one of the few countries in the world where there is no religious freedom for Jews--because every Jew in Israel has to live according to Haredi dictates. And for this state of affairs the Israeli taxpayer has to s...
Rabbi Landau expressed his opinion (the equivalent of a ruling in Jewish Law) that haredi boys studying in yeshiva should not attend the funerals of soldiers, visit the mourners or visit the wounded. All this would disturb their Torah study, which is the only thing important for Israel’s na...
Illustrative: Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Israeli Jews are seen engaging in Torah study. (photo credit: FLASH90) As Israel navigates one of its most challenging periods, a quiet but potentially transformative shift is taking place within its ultra-Orthodox (haredi) community. Four developments have con...
The new brigade takes its name from the Hasmonean Dynasty, which began after the Jews threw off their oppressors during the Maccabean Revolt, which is commemorated on Hanukkah. Advertisement Deputy Chief of Staff, Maj. Gen. Amir Baram, at the lighting of a Hanukkah candle in the ultra-Orthod...
in Haredi,mostly Hasidic, communities, where it functions as a powerful symbol of a dis-tinct ethnic and religious identity, so that Hasidim continue to speak Yiddish andto pass it on to their children. Yiddish is also spoken outside the Haredi world,by elderly Jews born in Eastern Europe ...