Haredi extremists, settlers, hostage families block roads in protests throughout Israel, West Bank

Protesters have been blocking roads at different locations in Israel and the West Bank.

Ultra-Orthodox extremists have been blocking Route 4 in central Israel in protest of efforts to end blanket exemptions from military service for their community. There have been reports of several arrests as police try and pull rioters from the road.

In Tel Aviv, dozens of protesters — led by residents of the Gaza border Kibbutz Be’eri and the relatives of hostages — have blocked Shaul Hamelech Street near the IDF’s Kirya military headquarters where the war cabinet is slated to meet later tonight.

Nearby, police arrested a 58-year-old suspect who allegedly attacked the motorcade of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu.

In the West Bank, extremist settlers set tires on fire to block Route 60 in protest of authorities’ dismantlement of an illegal outpost that they had built on private Palestinian land.

Twenty companies were dispatched to dismantle the illegal outposts as settlers once again diverted the attention and resources of security forces to the West Bank.