Ultra-Orthodox students from state-funded yeshiva filmed singing against enlistment in ‘infidel’ army

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox yeshiva students from a seminary that receives tens of millions of shekels annually in state funds were filmed last night gleefully singing their refusal to enlist in the Israeli army of the “infidels.”

The Ateret Shlomo students were attending the wedding of a fellow student in the Ma’ale Adumim settlement and had filled bleachers outside the hall afterward to sing.

Singer Arale Samet led the crowd in a raucous rendition of a famous Neturei Karta song, but changed the words to say, “We don’t believe in the government of infidels and we won’t show up to their (army) recruitment offices.”

Hundreds in the crowd can be seen joining Samet in belting out the adapted line in a clip that quickly went viral, sparking uproar across the political spectrum.

רבבות תלמידי ישיבות עטרת שלמה בראשות ראש הישיבה הגרש"ב סורוצקין שרים בהתלהבות: "בשלטון הכופרים אין אנו מאמינים ובלשכותיהם אין אנו מתייצבים" pic.twitter.com/8d44FHeKVp

— משה ויסברג (@moshe_nayes) March 11, 2025