Riots broke out today outside the IDF recruitment center in Tel Hashomer, as Charedim staged loud and aggressive protests against the enlistment of yeshivaleit into the army.
The protesters attempted to disrupt the recruitment of soldiers for the Chashmonaim Brigade — a unit specifically designed to accommodate charedi recruits who wish to uphold a Torah lifestyle while serving. Demonstrators blocked roads, shouted inflammatory slogans, and handed out anti-enlistment pamphlets.
As young soldiers entered the base, the protesters screamed insults such as, “Don’t kill yourself,” “This is Gehinnom,” and even went so far as to call them “Nazis” and say that “Tziyonim are not Jews.”
When Religious Zionism MK Zvi Sukkot showed up to support the draftees, protestors shouted, “Sukkot is like [Yahya] Sinwar!”
Police and Border Guard forces were deployed in large numbers to secure the area and maintain order as the situation escalated. The police reported that at one point protesters laid down in the streets to block traffic, forcing officers to physically remove them to allow vehicles to pass. One individual was arrested amid the chaos.
Several main roads in the area were shut down, including Yaakov Dori Street in Kiryat Ono between Shaul HaMelech and Levi Eshkol, causing heavy backups along Route 461 from the Beit B’Park intersection all the way to Mesubim Junction. Motorists were urged to seek alternate routes.
Meanwhile, inside the recruitment center, around 70 active-duty soldiers and an additional 110 reservists who had volunteered to transition into combat roles were processed for enlistment into the Chashmonaim Brigade.
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Wow, “Tzyonim Aren’t Yidden”. Here is a “yid” who thinks he’s a “bal mitzvos”. More like a “ti-paysh: and “bal guyvinik” oh and yes a “so-ney yisrael”.
Of course I’ll be first to agree that sitting and learning is more productive than this and that’s what they should be doing. On the other hand I can’t help but sympathize with their plight knowing who the Supreme Court and attorney general is, who would rather feed terrorists than a religious child and is definitely more concerned with their welfare. They threw out the law overnight, took away all exemptions, and implemented sanctions right away. That’s not a negotiation and that’s not trying to be understanding. So how can you respect the government that continues to support Arabs with all sorts of tasty subsidies and peace payments while the actual Jews of the country suffer? And that’s why gloves are off
There is something that Israel forgot, it’s called rationality, when a person does things sometimes he has to be rational about it, so people run after Ben gvir yelling that he isn’t rational about anything, the gedolim say that this draft is only for the purpose of shmad, even if they don’t care about anything on earth, the fact remains that they did not speak about any rationality about charedim only that they are the boss and nothing else, not something like we could use them in the kitchen, or we will make a camp in middle of har nof with rabbi to come visit and see kashrus and maybe some of them in intelligence without the the girls in tight pants, no rationality was even presented to anybody, so possibly the rabbi would say we don’t care they are shmad but the fact remains that there isn’t any rationality in the zionist actions only I’m boss and that’s it finish
If it were a Jews for J recruitment center we’d do the same thing. Every Torah observant Jew knows the IDF is shmad.