The new doctor wants to encourage other members of the religious world to help their communities by entering the field.

'I look at you and see modern-day Hasmoneans – soldiers, warriors, righteous men who learn Torah,' Rivlin told the IDF soldiers.

Hundreds of thousands attended the funeral of revered spiritual leader Rabbi Aharon Yehuda Leib Shteinman on Tuesday, who passed away at the age of 104.

It is unfair that so many young men are receiving draft exemptions. There is another reason these numbers are disgraceful: they disgrace the Torah.

The first-ever all-Haredi paratrooper company of 40 soldiers was sworn in at an IDF ceremony at the Western Wall in Jerusalem.

Meet Rivka Ravitz - a 39 year old ultra-orthodox mother of 11 who is destroying stereotypes as a powerful force behind Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.

Meet Rivka Ravitz - a 39 year old ultra-orthodox mother of 11 kids who is destroying stereotypes as a powerful force behind Israel's President Rivlin. She's a renaissance woman also running a family of 13!

Meet Rivka Ravitz - a 39 year old ultra-orthodox mother of 11 who is destroying stereotypes as a powerful force behind Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.

Meet Rivka Ravitz - a 39 year old ultra-orthodox mother of 11 who is destroying stereotypes as a powerful force behind Israel's President Reuven Rivlin.

Israel proves once again that it is the only real democracy in the Middle East.