Current sectionIsrael NewsProtesters chanted 'We'll die and won't enlist' as a few hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews were conscripted into the IDF. Religious and secular Jews counter-protested in support of the conscriptsShare to FacebookShare to XArticle printing is available to subscribers onlyPrint in a simple, ad-free formatSubscribeComments: Zen reading is available to subscribers onlyAd-free and in a comfortable reading formatSubscribeAaron Rabinowitz09:07 PM • August 30 2026 IDTDozens of ultra-Orthodox protestors demonstrated against the conscription of a few hundred Haredi Jews on Sunday at the Israel Defense Forces' Tel Hashomer enlistment center in central Israel.Loading...Click the alert icon to follow topics:Israel protestUltra-OrthodoxIDFHaredim CommentsLoading...In the NewsIn the News: Live UpdatesWest BankChief RabbiGaza Militias El-Sayed NetanyahuOfer WinterRoger WatersPollHaQuizHaaretz PodcastHaredi Israelis Protest IDF Draft Outside Military Enlistment CenterFour Men Plead Guilty to Arson Attack on Jewish Ambulances in LondonWhen to Say 'Genocide': What Leftists Could Learn From GermanyPalestinian Attacked by Settlers Freed After Month of Detention, in Rare ReleaseFormer Hostage Whose Family Was Murdered on October 7 to Host Memorial CeremonyRemembering and rebuilding two years laterICYMIHasan Piker Talks Hamas, anti-Zionism and Why Americans Are Fed Up With Israel'Israel Is Sending Militias to Commit War Crimes – and I Have to Protect Them'Israeli Court Acquits Man of Assaulting Nun in Jerusalem's Old CityPoll: Likud Sinks to 19 Seats as New Right-wing Party Falls Below ThresholdJewish Space Lasers? Israel Wants 'Rods From God'Ben-Gvir's Ambush Shook Netanyahu – and Unleashed a War for Right-wing Votes