Haredim protest in opposition to the IDF draft exterior Tel Hashomer recruitment base, April 28. 2025. (picture credit score: AVSHALOM SASSONI)
“The State of Israel has declared struggle on Torah students. The Haredi neighborhood will launch a worldwide battle like no different,” the leaders of the Haredi neighborhood stated.
The leaders of the worldwide haredi neighborhood on Wednesday held an emergency session assembly on the house of main haredi determine Rabbi Dov Landau, following the arrest of two yeshiva college students for draft dodging.
Within the assembly, leaders mentioned “methods to reply following the arrest of the yeshiva college students, with the purpose of formulating a consensus response amongst all sects and communities.”
“As is understood, Rabbi Landau warned final week in his speech on the Council of Yeshivas convention that if the State of Israel declares struggle on Torah students, the whole Haredi Jewish world will mobilize for a combat,” the Haredi neighborhood stated in an announcement.
“The State of Israel has declared struggle on Torah students. The Haredi neighborhood will launch a worldwide battle like no different.”
The IDF army courtroom arrested the 2 Haredi brothers, Rafael and Baruch Yitzhakov, of the “Meorot HaTorah” yeshiva in Kiryat Ye’arim, on Tuesday evening and sentenced them to 17 and 13 days in detention, respectively.
A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) Jewish man protest in opposition to IDF conscription, close to Bnei Brak, June 5, 2025 (credit score: ERIK MARMOR/FLASH90)
Liberman: If solely the haredi neighborhood targeted on the nation’s security
“Following the arrest of draft dodgers – an emergency gathering at Rabbi Lando’s home to combat in opposition to conscription, whereas our troopers are preventing on all fronts and risking their lives,” Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Lieberman wrote on X/Twitter.
“In the event that they enlisted for the safety of the state as zealously as they enlist for draft dodging, the State of Israel could be stronger and extra united.”
It is a growing story.
