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Police Disperse Jerusalem Protesters as Anti-Draft Demonstrations Block Route 4

Summary by i24NEWS
The demonstrations followed a call by the Jerusalem Faction, a hardline ultra-Orthodox movement opposed to military conscription, to protest recent arrests of yeshiva students

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Israel: The police report the opening of the 4th highway in the Bnei Brac area and the road to the entrance to Jerusalem, where protests by the ultra-religious movement Peleg Jerushalmi have taken place since 4 p.m.

During the Jerusalem faction's protests against the conscription of yeshiva students, a former soldier in the Combat Engineering Corps demonstrated and declared that he regretted his military service and would not allow his daughter to enlist. The demonstrations, accompanied by blockades of major thoroughfares including Highway 4 and the Jerusalem Bridge, included severe clashes with police forces, the suspension of the light rail, and an unusua…

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i24NEWS broke the news in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel on Thursday, October 8, 2026.
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