Former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef leads Bnei Brak protest over arrests of yeshiva students, as Shas lawmakers attend despite party unease and coalition efforts continue to pass draft-exemption legislation

Cabinet Secretary Yossi Fuchs says arrests of yeshiva students are pushing Haredim away from enlistment and risk tearing Israeli society apart; Netanyahu claimed police enter…

The most recent proposal advanced is a bill that would halt the arrests of haredi draft evaders, which is set to be debated on Tuesday in the Knesset’s Foreign Affairs and Defense…

Former chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef leads Bnei Brak protest over arrests of yeshiva students, as Shas lawmakers attend despite party unease and coalition efforts continue to pass…

The rally, attended by hundreds of haredi men and led by former Sephardi chief rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, protested the drafting of yeshiva students to the army.

"The cursed chief of staff, may his name and memory be erased, sent a soldier to prison because he put a Messiah note,” Rabbi Aryeh Yazdi told protesters on Monday in Bnei Brak.

At a Bnei Brak rally, Rabbi Aryeh Yazdi used a phrase traditionally reserved for particularly hostile figures in Jewish history to refer to IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir,…