As draft law nears passage, haredi Israelis take to streets
By Ben Sales, March 4, 2014
Hundreds of thousands of haredi Orthodox Jews protesting a measure to draft them into the Israeli military, March 2, 2014. (Yaakov Naumi/FLASH90)
JERUSALEM (JTA) — Beneath banners invoking historic calamities from the Egyptian enslavement to the Holocaust, hundreds of thousand of haredi Orthodox men gathered on the streets of Jerusalem to recite psalms and penitential prayers as they inveighed against an enemy they consider on par with Hitler and the ancient pharaohs. “We endured Pharaoh. We endured the Crusades. We endured the Inquisition. We survived the gas chambers,” read one sign. “We’ll endure Zionism, too.”
Mase "bradatih" muškaraca su se uputile na ulice u nedelju kako bi protestirale molitvama protiv predloženog zakona koji bi uključio "haredi" Židove u izraelsku vojnu obavezu. Zakon, koji je prošao kroz glasanje u "Komitetu" 20. veljače , ima potporu izraelske vladajuće koalicije i vjertojatno će uskoro doći u Knesset gdje se očekuje njegovo donošenje. Iako zakon neće zahvatiti "haredi" do 2017. godine, on je izazvao dugotrajnu kulturnu borbu. Od Zakona o obaveznoj vojnoj službi u Izraelu Haredi su bili izuzeti od osnutka države u 1948.godini. Mnogi Izraelci vide zakon kao vitalni korak prema
“equalizing the burden” .
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Haredim hold massive anti-draft demonstration in Jerusalem
Hundreds of thousands of haredi protesters rallied in Jerusalem on Sunday afternoon in one of the largest demonstrations in Israel’s history, to rail against a reform of the conscription law which could see ultra-Orthodox men drafted into the army or compulsory national service, the Jerusalem Post reports. Although the police did not issue a crowd estimate, unofficial counts put the number as at least 300,000 participants.Haredi organizers claimed much larger numbers, and a special prayer for a gathering of 600,000 Jews was recited....
A declaration on behalf of the leading haredi rabbis was read out at high volume.
“The gathering demands from the authorities that it not pass any law that injures Torah students in any way and coerces them to leave their studies, and even [threatens] to throw them in prison, which would constitute the uprooting of the Torah and a desecration of God’s name.”
“This picture proves why equality in the burden of military service is so important, because anyone looking at this mass of people understands thatthe State of Israel can’t carry these people on its back without them taking part in military and civilian service and taking part in the labor force and the Israeli economy,” Lapid said.