Some Haredi protesters, separate from the main anti-enlistment demonstration in Jerusalem, set several fires in the middle of Yirmiyahu Street, blocking the intersection with Shamgar Street.
In the middle of a busy shopping district, protesters burn dumpsters and flammable liquids at multiple locations. A loud boom, the origin of which this reporter could not ascertain, was heard down the street.
Walking past a melting dumpster, a middle-aged Haredi man yells at the youth standing around the fire, “Don’t enlist!”
One young man is taken away by paramedics. Witnesses at the scene claim he had tried to block the road and had been hit by a bus driver, but this reporter was unable to confirm this.
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