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Haredi leaders plan major rally against conscription on Sunday
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GoogleSam Sokol is a former political correspondent at The Times of Israel. He was previously a reporter for the Jerusalem Post, Jewish Telegraphic Agency and Haaretz. He is the author of "Putin’s Hybrid War and the Jews"
Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community is planning a major rally against the conscription of yeshiva students on Sunday, says a spokesman for Rabbi Dov Lando, the spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah party and one of the senior heads of the non-Hasidic “Lithuanian” branch of Haredi Judaism in Israel.
“At the instruction of the leader of the generation, Rabbi Dov Lando, preparations are underway for a central prayer rally on Sunday,” the spokesman says in a terse statement with no additional information.
Lando’s announcement comes as ultra-Orthodox activists and lawmakers rage against what they describe as a “wave of arrests” of yeshiva students who ignored enlistment orders and are evading military service.
According to the hardline Jerusalem Faction, the IDF resumed enforcement operations last Friday, raiding a number of homes in Jerusalem, the West Bank community of Adam, Ramat Gan and Givatayim.
The Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee is expected to present a bill regulating ultra-Orthodox enlistment next week.
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