(4 Mar 2024)
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ASSOCIATED PRESS
Jerusalem - 4 March 2024
1. Israeli police forcefully removing and dragging away ultra-Orthodox men as they protest
2 Police officer grabbing protester’s arm while he sits on ground smoking
3. Israeli police dragging away men, some protesters clinging onto lamp post
4. Two police officers dragging a person
5. Various of police dragging people away
6. Close of sign reading (English/Hebrew) “Recruiting Office”
7. Police officer chasing man, grabbing him and moving him away
8. Various of police removing and dragging away men
9. Exterior of recruitment centre
10. Police officers, police vehicles and ultra-Orthodox men outside recruitment centre
STORYLINE:
Israeli police forcefully removed ultra-Orthodox men who were protesting outside a recruitment centre in Jerusalem on Monday.
The men were protesting over a potential new draft law which could end their exemptions from military service.
Last week, Israel’s Supreme Court heard arguments in cases that would force ultra-Orthodox men to serve in the Israeli army, as the military’s manpower is strained by the nearly five-month-long war in Gaza.
Military service is compulsory for Jewish males, but politically powerful ultra-Orthodox parties have won exemptions for their communities to allow men to study full-time in religious seminaries.
These exemptions have prompted widespread anger and resentment from the secular majority, especially as the army has recently announced that compulsory service may be extended and reserve duty will be more frequent.
The government is required to submit a new draft law in the coming months.
Ultra-Orthodox parties, which are a key coalition partner of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, hope to continue the system of exemptions.
Opponents, including key members of a mass protest movement against Netanyahu’s judicial overhaul, say the exemptions are unfair and must end.
In the past, attempts to overhaul the draft law to include ultra-Orthodox in the draft have drawn tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox to the streets in large, violent protests that blocked major roadways.
AP video shot by Shlomo Mor
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