(23 Jul 2025)
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Jerusalem – 23 July 2025
1. Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocking traffic and chanting (Hebrew) "We will die, but we will not join the army."
2. Policemen pushing ultra-Orthodox Jewish man
3. Various of ultra-Orthodox Jewish man blocking traffic
4. UPSOUND: ultra-Orthodox Jewish man, no name given: “I’m telling you, I’m ready for you to shoot me, come and shoot me, but don’t draft me into the army. Come on (opens the top of his shirt) shoot me, but don’t draft me into the army, let me stay a Jew.”
5. Wide of protesters blocking traffic
6. Mid of proteste rs
7. Police forces walking towards protestors
8. Police move the protesters away to clear the road for traffic
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Dovi, ultra-Orthodox protester:
“I think it’s terrible, it’s embarrassing that in a modern, democracy state in 2025, people can’t keep the religion, and we are forced to go to the army that it is brainwashing, and we can’t keep our religion.”
10. Protesters blocking the light train
11. Protesters holding a banner, reading (Hebrew) “Either Ultra-Orthodox or military”.
7. Various of protesters block traffic.
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men blocked a major highway in Jerusalem on Wednesday to protest against enlisting for military service.
“We are forced to go to the army that it is brainwashing, and we can’t keep our religion,” said Dovi, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish protestor.
Under longstanding arrangements, ultra-Orthodox men have been exempted from the draft, which is compulsory for most Jewish men and women, who serve two to three years as well, as reserve duty until around age 40.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s government suffered a serious blow last week when ultra-Orthodox parties announced they were bolting the coalition.
The parties leaders said they were leaving the government because of disagreements over a proposed law that would end broad exemptions for religious students from enlistment into the military.
Roughly 1.3 million ultra-Orthodox Jews make up about 13% of Israel’s population and oppose enlistment because they believe studying full time in religious seminaries is their most important duty.
AP Video by Moshe Edri and Alon Bernstein
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