Haredi protesters blocked highways in central Israel on Monday, in opposition to the arrest of an ultra-Orthodox man for evading service in the Israel Defense Forces.
The demonstrators, all men and boys, shut down the Geha Interchange, at the northeastern entrance to the ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, near Tel Aviv.
They chanted the anti-draft slogan, “We will die and not enlist!”
Footage on social media also showed a crowd of protesters booing an ultra-Orthodox policeman, calling him “the neighborhood screw-up.”
Channel 12, reporting from the scene some two and a half hours into the closure, estimated the demonstrators to number no more than 200.
