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Hundreds of Haredi protesters clash with police outside jail holding draft dodgers

By Sam Sokol 14 August 2025, 11:50 pm
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Sam 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"

Hundreds of members of the Jerusalem Faction, Slonim Hasidic sect and other ultra-Orthodox groups clash with police outside the Beit Lid military prison, where several yeshiva students arrested for draft evasion are being held.

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