{"id":233357,"date":"2026-08-03T03:38:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:38:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/233357\/"},"modified":"2026-08-03T03:38:23","modified_gmt":"2026-08-03T03:38:23","slug":"police-working-to-clear-ultra-orthodox-protest-in-jerusalem","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/233357\/","title":{"rendered":"Police working to clear ultra-Orthodox protest in Jerusalem"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protest denouncing the IDF draft in northern Jerusalem blocked roads, including Shivtei Israel Street, and was considered disruptive, Israel Police announced on Sunday night.<\/p>\n<p>Dozens of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-904191\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">haredi protesters<\/a> blocked Shivtei Israel street on Sunday, according to a statement from the Israel Police spokesperson.<\/p>\n<p>Officers from Israel Police&#8217;s Special Patrol Unit and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/border-police\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Border Police<\/a> personnel were dispatched to the demonstration in nothern Jerusalem after protesters failed to comply with orders from the police to clear the roads.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The police stated that they were working to clear the road and disperse the protesters.<\/p>\n<p>The protest followed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-904323\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">reports<\/a> that Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu had told officials that if re-elected, he would not advance the contentious law that seeks to freeze the arrests of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) draft evaders, which his coalition recently passed last month.<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu said the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-902248\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">legislation<\/a> was unsuccessful and that it would be discontinued in the next government, according to a Sunday KAN report.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The report further added that Netanyahu had said draft evaders who do not study Torah will either \u201cenlist or go to prison.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Netanyahu had also reportedly said during the Sunday meeting that the law freezing draft-dodger arrests was meant to be only a temporary solution, intended to \u201clower the flames and increase the number of recruits among the haredi public,\u201d according to the KAN report.<\/p>\n<p>The prime minister also said in the meeting that after the next elections, he plans to establish a \u201cbroad national government\u201d that will pass a \u201cfull conscription law that meets the IDF\u2019s needs,\u201d a separate N12 report added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protest denouncing the IDF draft in northern Jerusalem blocked roads, including Shivtei Israel Street, and&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":233358,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[33],"tags":[41,17466,12272,11285,53602,37,5869,4308],"class_list":["post-233357","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-benjamin-netanyahu","tag-border-police","tag-haredi","tag-haredi-draft","tag-haredi-protests","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-protests"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@iran\/117029496615059347","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233357","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=233357"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/233357\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/233358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=233357"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=233357"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/iran\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=233357"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}