Intelligence agencies to each employ 100 ultra-Orthodox as part of volunteer alternative to military service

Move comes cabinet instructs Gallant to order IDF not to enforce Haredi conscription until March 2024, by which time the government plans to have finalized new law

Israel has grappled with religious tensions since its establishment, but a series of recent surveys show divide over the overhaul is more intense than anything we've seen in years

Ex-minister Omer Barlev, now executive of company, pays condolence call to family of Rabbi Gershon Edelstein and delivers personal apology letter over incident

Organizers say they will block highways and intersections around the country. 'Life cannot continue as normal,' says one protest leader

Commission will examine swapping current enlistment model for true universal draft, with some Israelis serving in the military and others performing national service

New biennial survey by Israel Democracy Institute also finds military generally considered to be ethical, good at its job, bad with its money and middling at gender equality

Defense minister advancing his plan to implement national service alongside military duty to address situation in which only half of Israelis currently serve

Justices accept government request, opposed by Defense Minister Gantz, for further extension to pass legislation formally exempting Haredim from military service

In an apparent stunt, Gantz lets the order enabling ultra-Orthodox to avoid army service lapse, but expert says status quo likely to continue, because Knesset dissolved in December