JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrated across Israel on Monday, blocking roads and trains and setting cars on fire to protest mandatory enlistment in Israel’s military. Israel’s police said demonstrators blocked major intersections and attacked a soldier who disembarked from a bus near a protest. Police struggled to control the crowds with water cannons and horses. The protest largely crippled the country’s center, with highways closed and public transportation halted by the massive crowds in both Jerusalem and the Tel Aviv metro area.

Protests are expected in Jerusalem, Bnei Brak, Beit Shemesh, Safed and Nof HaGalil after arrests of draft dodgers, days after road blockages and clashes with police.

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Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Israelis have demonstrated across the country against mandatory military enlistment

JERUSALEM: Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox demonstrated across Israel on Monday, blocking roads and trains and setting cars on fire to protest mandatory enlistment in Israel’s…