Dozens of young Satmar Children from the Yitav Lev Talmud Torah in Jerusalem held a special protest on Tuesday against Israel’s military draft. The students marched through a number of streets in the city wearing costumes that included signs that read: “I would rather die than be drafted.” The protest was undertaken in support of the “heroic” Charedim who refuse to even go to IDF conscription office to receive their deferrals or sort out their military or civilian service.
The protest march paraded down the streets of Givat Moshe and Ezras Torah, which are located in close proximity to the Talmud Torah. The students wore signs that in the words of the organizers: “Gave strength to those heroes of valor as well as fan the hopes of the young students who they themselves will refuse to appear in front of the conscription office in years to come.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Purim arrived early this year.
if you’d rather die that enlist (like these kids have any clue what they are wearing), well then, we will miss you.
Muslim children would also rather die
And they are doing this shortly after Erdogan has been rightly vilified for telling a little girl she could die like a martyr. But I wonder if the adults understand that Purim is “vnahapoch hu” , so the signs mean that they want to be drafted?
Why doesnt one of thier preaching rabbis or raaboonim show them what it means to die. Its easy to paste a tag on them when they are clueless of what they are actually going. These innocent children are made into shick yinglech and worse.
Sad.
resistance.
The kids in Gaza have similar signs “I’d rather die than NOT enlist”.
satmar has nothing to offer
than this outdated daas yochid shita
Why does Satmar have to copy the way of Edrogen of Turkey. Leave the tinokos out of this.
Thanks for posting this YWN.
please dont die kids…let others die for you while your parents will go shnoring all over the world to feed you and keep you alive..
i am in the same shita like tyou but there is no need to publicise this to the whole country when so many hundreds of soldiers are getting killed for your safety, just sit home and learn Torah and daven for those soldiers that NO harm should come their way..Freilichen pirim
#2 boyswork, your neshama will die faster in the tumadik IDF before you are killed by some shaygitz.
Are you sure it doesnt say rather die than be litvish?
This is called CHILD ABUSE!!
I’d rather die than give them money or not testify against them at their inevitable abuse and financial fraud trials.
Little tiny Israel, surrounded by 600 million muslims (who have higher birthrates and younger — i.e. military age — populations), the ENTIRE region inflamed in a brutal “gang war,” Iran slowly but surely surrounding them and moving toward nuclear weapons… do you really think drafting hareidim is going to solve your problems??? Are you people THAT dense or are you all just atheists??? Have you no emunah??? Do you not believe in the words of our neviim??? The end is unfolding before our eyes and all you people can do is talk about rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic!!! Only HaShem can protect us from the mess we’ve put ourselves into the middle of!!! The answer is teshuva and more Torah, not more soldiers!!!