Police have dispersed a large anti-conscription protest near Bnei Brak, after Haredi demonstrators blocked traffic for over two hours in the area.
Officers arrested three demonstrators for rioting and reopened Route 4 to traffic in both directions, police say, after their forces struggled to clear the ultra-Orthodox crowd from the road.
Hundreds of demonstrators convened in three separate locations on the busy highway to protest authorities’ arrest of yeshiva students who dodged their conscription orders.
Many participants were affiliated with the hardline Jerusalem Faction, which called the demonstration for 4 p.m. today.
Police say that protesters derided cops as “Nazis” and had been demonstrating unlawfully in the area.
Footage from earlier in the day shows officers scuffling with young ultra-Orthodox men, who insisted on remaining in the middle of the road.
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