Yeshiva students say: 'Yesterday was the last meat meal, the refrigerators are empty''

Haredim 10
December 2, 2025   
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""Yesterday was the last meat meal": In many Haredi yeshivot, the economic situation has deteriorated greatly since the budget freeze at the beginning of the recruitment crisis, more than a year and a half ago.

Although the dramatic change does not cause an influx of young Haredi people to join the IDF, it could explain the rush of the Haredi parties to enact the draft law that is currently being formulated, which could restore yeshiva budgets.

Daniel Grobeis, ultra-Orthodox and religion correspondent for Galei Tzahal, presented the voices:


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