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Police arrest 5 in fresh ultra-Orthodox anti-draft protests
Add ToI as a Preferred Source on GooglePolice arrest five ultra-Orthodox demonstrators in Jerusalem for blocking roads during a protest against military conscription.
During the demonstration, which was organized by the anti-Zionist Orthodox Council of Jerusalem, hundreds of protesters block traffic at the city’s Shabbat Square, a key intersection leading to several ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in the capital.
A number of protesters hold up signs reading, “we would rather die than be drafted.”
The demonstrators also temporarily blocked the nearby light rail and Haim Bar-Lev Boulevard, a major thoroughfare in the city.
Police said officers dispersed the protesters.
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