Daily Briefing Jan. 7: Day 824 – Chaos and death at a Haredi anti-IDF protest
Political correspondent Sam Sokol discusses the tragic end of a raucous, extreme demonstration in Jerusalem against military conscription of the ultra-Orthodox
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After a 14-year-old ultra-Orthodox teenager was killed and three others were injured by a bus ramming into protesters following a mass Haredi rally against IDF conscription, Sokol describes the chaotic scene, including fires set in the middle of a busy street by young men and teens roaming around Jerusalem’s Romema neighborhood on Tuesday night.
The rally, the initiative of a group of leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis and connected to the Jerusalem Faction, an extremist ultra-Orthodox group, opened with fiery speeches, reports Sokol, as the spiritual leaders railed against the government’s proposed draft regulation bill and against Shas, a Haredi party that supports it.
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For further reading:
Police set to charge bus driver who ran over Haredi protester with aggravated murder
Teenager killed, others injured after bus runs over Haredi protesters in Jerusalem
Senior ultra-Orthodox rabbi: Those enforcing Haredi draft are fighting against God
Thousands of Haredim protest against conscription in Jerusalem
Shas vows to oppose 2026 budget unless coalition passes Haredi draft exemption bill
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