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July 25, 2025

The Schools Bringing Israeli Haredim into the Workforce—and into the Army

Integration without coercion.

In the midst of the war with Iran and the subsequent intensification of the war in Gaza, Israel’s governing coalition came close to collapsing over efforts to draft Haredim into the IDF. On Wednesday, the same issue led Likud to oust Yuli Edelstein—one of its veteran parliamentarians—from the position of chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee.

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