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Ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Tuesday to protest a recent decision by the country’s Supreme Court to lift the exemption from military conscription previously granted to Talmudic school students.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews demonstrated in Bnei Brak, Israel, on Tuesday to protest a recent decision by the country’s Supreme Court to lift the country’s exemption from military conscription previously granted to students in Talmudic school.
Protesters were seen carrying signs accusing Israel of being “an anti-Semitic country”or declaring that they were ready to “go to prison, but not to war”.
As the conflict between Israel and Hamas has raged for 9 months in Gaza, the Israeli army announced on Tuesday that Draft notices will be sent to ultra-Orthodox Jews starting Sunday, July 21.
Previously, Jews who devoted themselves to the study of the Talmud full-time were exempt from compulsory military service in Israel, under a measure instituted by David Ben-Gurion in 1948.
At least in June, The country’s Supreme Court unanimously lifted the exemption, ruling that there was no “an adequate legal framework to justify it”.