Jerusalem – More than 40 haredi Orthodox protesters were arrested in Jerusalem during a demonstration against the arrest of a yeshiva student who refused to register for the draft.
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The demonstration on Thursday morning closed an intersection near the entrance of Jerusalem.
Police and some of the estimated 400 protesters clashed during the demonstration, which also stopped the Jerusalem light rail on Jaffa Road. The demonstrators shouted “We will die before we enlist,” Ynet reported.
The demonstration that closed Jerusalem roads came a few hours before the start of the Jerusalem Pride Parade, that will close roads and bring out extra security.
While haredi Orthodox men studying in yeshiva are exempted from the draft, they are required to appear at an enlistment office to present evidence of their studies and sign a deferral. But some members of the community, including those associated with the Jerusalem Faction, a radical haredi group, refuse to even sign the deferral.
A bill setting military enlistment quotas for haredi Orthodox yeshiva students passed its initial reading in the Knesset at the beginning of July. The legislation requires that a minimum number of students serve in the military, or the government will reduce the annual budget allocation for their yeshivas. The target will increase each year for 10 years.
It will likely be reintroduced when the Knesset returns from its three-month recess in October. The legislation could bring down the current government if the haredi Orthodox parties, which are part of the ruling government coalition, leave the coalition over it.
In the past I’ve vilified these Peleg thugs.
While My opinion of them hasn’t changed , and I still think that they are a bunch of “kafuy Tov” , listless, sponging, gangsters,
My revulsion to them has been tempered by the equally revolting demonstrations and rallies being waged by the gays and their rabble rousing enablers on the extreme left.
These two groups of scoundrels deserve each other
They should both be deported to Gaza or Saudi Arabia or some other “enlightened” venue. Let’s see how long they last there.
peleg belong in the army with the LBTQ poople. they are not yeshiva people who sit and learn and learn more; peleg are violent misfits in the Torah world.
Shame on the isrealy government for beating jews, even in the USA we don’t see such pic & they not arresting yeshiva boys, we need to move out from israel asap,
Jews have no future there,
(Btw all the people who are upset for road blocking wondering if tonight by the tumna pride parade if u will also scream)
I want the Israeli media to publish the names of these biological accidents. I would want to wish that they are unable to pass on their genes to another generation. I have already instructed my family to avoid accepting any of these persistent sinners for shidduch prospects.
While violence shld never b condoned. Y draft dodgers? Y in every free country a student exempt of serving in the army besides when there’s an all out war?
They dont need them in the IDF. They just wanba create a matzav that chareidim don’t enlist. G d shld protect them from the spiritual downfall in the “ holy land”.
Seems these yungerleit have too much time on their hands during their “bein hazmanim” AKA SUMMER BREAK time. You have to feel sorry for them.
Sorry guys. I am not a Jew. I am in Saudi Arabia. (I find it remarkable you find that remarkable.)