Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators belonging to the extremist Jerusalem Faction protested across the country on Tuesday, blocking Route 4 near the central city of Bnei Brak and breaching the home of the head of the IDF’s Military Police in Ashkelon in protest of the arrest of yeshiva students who have evaded military conscription.
The military said the extremists broke into Military Police commander Brig. Gen. Yuval Yamin’s home “while his family was inside.” Police said in a statement that the rioters “trespassed into the yard, acted violently, and disrupted the routine of life in the area.”
Police later announced that 25 suspects, among them minors, were arrested.
In a statement, the Jerusalem Faction declared that the arrest of yeshiva student Nehorai Bachar “from within the walls of the yeshiva in Herzliya” and his incarceration in military prison crossed a “red line” and that faction’s spiritual leader, Rabbi Azriel Auerbach, has “instructed the public to take part in a mass ‘protest of rage’ Wednesday at 5 p.m. at the entrance to Jerusalem.”
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