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Hundreds of chareidim took part in protests blocking traffic in the area of the Chords Bridge in Yerushalayim on Thursday, 6 Adar I 5774. In addition, some of the protestors made their way to the Begin Highway and set tires ablaze, bringing traffic to a halt for a period of time.
Protests against drafting chareidim were held simultaneously at major intersections around the country, near chareidi population areas.
This included the entrance to the capital, Kikar Shabbos, Geha Junction, Coca Cola Junction in Bnei Brak, Shilat Junction near Modi’in Illit, Yishai Junction in Beit Shemesh and the Port of Ashdod area.
Police spokesman Micky Rosenfeld reports that at least eight protesters were arrested in Ashdod after they threw rocks at police.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Photos by Yehuda Rachamim, Chadashot 24)
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Chareidim need to stop being passive and instead get into the streets and tie the police and traffic into knots until they stop harassing us.
The louder the protests, the more the Israeli government risks. The last thing they want is for the world to be watching as the persecute a religious minority for refusing to support the war effort against the Arabs. A national home that is a haven only for some Jews, and not for ones who are too Jewish, loses its raison d’etre. The hareidi community, in return for being left alone, dropped out of meaningful “big issue” politics a century ago, roughly after the De Haan assasination. It isn’t in the zionists’ interest to get the hareidim riled up.
And for the military, the return they get steadily declines since there is no easy way to know which hareidim are anti-zionist and which aren’t, so they’ll eventually have to start distrusting even those that appear to be “moderate” – meaning instead of the several thousand enthusiastic frum volunteers they get now, they might end up with several thousand conscripts whom they can’t trust.
I concur 100% with chachom (#1). This latest edict of the Bagatz was totally unnecessary, unwarranted, and ill-conceived. When the court had ruled a few years ago that the Knesset had to codify the draft deferral arrangement, the legislature arrived at a probationary law, the Tal Law. It was working OK till the leftists protested that law, and the bagatz threw it out. The legislature then took up the matter again, and this time the leftists raised the ante by seeking not only to strong arm the the legislative process, but to exert undue economic hardship on the weakest segment. The wicked court could have gone after the IDF, or the Knesset to pressure them. But who did it go after? The yeshivot, who arguably have the most to lose, and who are pawns in the system between the Knesset, the IDF, and their own leaderdship.
I think the time is rapidly upon us when the radicall leftist minority is going to cause an explosion in the haredi community, with its own frum intifada or Haredi Spring.
The evil eiruv rav is perpetrating a mockery of frum values, the frum way of life, and is willfully and gleefully taunting us well beyond our red lines. They are also now perpetrating a vicious economic attack against this population, and think that nothing can stop them.
Guess again. Spontaneous mass hysteria, which they themselves will hae caused.