Yair Lapid tells Haredim: If you can travel to a protest, you can go to an IDF induction center

30 October 2025, 3:37 pm

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Opposition Leader Yair Lapid chairs a meeting of his Yesh Atid party in the Knesset, October 27, 2025. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)

Opposition Leader Yair Lapid, in a video statement, condemns the mass protest in Jerusalem against efforts to conscript ultra-Orthodox men to the Israel Defense Forces.

“I want to say to all these young people, who went to this disgraceful ‘We’ll die rather than enlist’ demonstration in Jerusalem, and are marching in the streets — if you’re able to travel to a protest, you’re able to travel to an induction center; if you’re able to march in the street, you’re able to march in basic training and defend the State of Israel,” he says.

“What has been, won’t be any longer — everyone will enlist, everyone will work, everyone will go to the induction center, everyone will defend the state.”