August 7, 2025 Meet the Middle East

Israel ultra-Orthodox vow to push back after students' arrest

Israel's ultra-Orthodox Jewish community pledged to resist government moves to call up seminary students for military service on Thursday ahead of an evening protest against the arrest of two objectors. "The authorities will face a united global ultra-Orthodox Judaism fighting for its soul," the spiritual leader of ultra-Orthodox Jews of European descent, Rabbi Dov Landau, told the community's leading newspaper Yated Neeman under the front-page headline "War".
Source: Al Monitor
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