Dozens rally outside Rabbi Dov Landau’s Bnei Brak home in support of Haredi draft

Dozens of demonstrators have gathered outside the home of Rabbi Dov Landau in Bnei Brak, to protest his rejection of an interim order from the High Court of Justice last week barring the government from providing funds to ultra-Orthodox yeshivas for students eligible for IDF enlistment.

The protester are calling for Landau to support the move and encourage Haredim to help “share the burden” of protecting the state amid the ongoing war against Hamas in Gaza.

“We can’t continue to bear the burden alone – failure to recruit Yeshiva students weakens the IDF and endangers the country’s security,” the protesters write on a letter they intend to present to the rabbi.

Landau is one of two deans of the Slabodka Yeshiva in Bnei Brak.

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