(27 Jun 2024)
RESTRICTION SUMMARY:
ASSOCIATED PRESS
Bnei Brak, Israel - 27 June 2024
1. Israeli police removing ultra-Orthodox protesters from street
2. Police on horses trying to open street
3. More of police removing protesters
4. Police accompanying protester away
5. Various of protesters
6. SOUNDBITE (Hebrew) Ozer (second name not given), protester:
“We all came here for one goal, we reflect the position of all the Orthodox public. All the Orthodox public prefer to go to prison and not to the army, we came here in order to tell that, and we are stopping the traffic in order to tell everyone and to catch the attention, so that everyone knows the basic thing that the Orthodox will go to prison and not to the army.”
7. Police removing protesters from street
8. Close of protester, UPSOUND protesters chanting (Hebrew) “We won’t be drafted. To prison and not to the army!”
9. Police carrying protester away
10. Police arresting protester
11. Pan of protesters, UPSOUND protesters chanting (Hebrew) “To prison and not to the army!”
12. Pan from cameramen to protesters
STORYLINE:
Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox men blocked a major highway in central Israel for two hours on Thursday, to protest a Supreme Court decision ordering young religious men to enlist for military service.
Military service is compulsory for most Jewish men and women in Israel.
But politically powerful ultra-Orthodox parties have won exemptions for their followers to skip military service and instead study in religious seminaries.
This long-standing arrangement has bred widespread resentment among the broader public - a sentiment that has grown stronger during the eight-month war against Hamas.
Over 600 soldiers have been killed in fighting, and tens of thousands of reservists have been activated, harming their careers, businesses and family lives.
The Supreme Court this week said the system of exemptions amounts to unequal treatment of different segments of the population and ordered the army to begin drafting ultra-Orthodox men.
Ultra-Orthodox parties and their followers oppose any change in the system.
The parties are key members of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's governing coalition and could potentially force new elections if they decide to leave the government in protest.
AP video shot by Ami Ben Tov
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