Yossi Schwartz ISL (RCIT section in Israel/Occupied Palestine) 07.01.2026
The ISL supports the objection of the Ultra -Orthodox Jews to serve in the Zionist army, simply because their objection is weakening the army of the Zionist monster.
15,000 ultra-Orthodox factions demonstrated on Tuesday against the military conscription draft law at the intersection of Bar Ilan and Yirmiyahu streets in Jerusalem. The demonstrators tried to break through the fences separating them from the stage set up there. The demonstration was held under the title “The Conscription Law – The Decree of Destruction, Kill and Don’t Pass.” The signs waving read, among other things, “Consent to the conscription law, consent to the destruction of Judaism,” and “Stop the trade in the souls of Israel.” In addition, leaflets were distributed against Shas Chairman Aryeh Deri, criticizing him for promoting the recruitment of Sephardic ultra-Orthodox Jews. “We will not forget and we will not forgive,” they read.
This is a demonstration that unites all the factions in ultra-Orthodox society, including the Jerusalem faction, the ultra-Orthodox community, and the Sephardic faction led by Rabbi Moshe Tzedka. The purpose of the demonstration was to exert internal ultra-Orthodox pressure on the ultra-Orthodox parties not to pass the law currently being discussed in the Knesset and not to approve sanctions and conscription targets.
Rabbi Moshe Tzedka, the leader of the Sephardic faction, spoke at the demonstration. “Instead of making a law that everyone should enlist in the army, we should make a law that everyone should study in yeshivas, and then everything will be fine. But these poor people (the secular) learned from the gentiles, he said. Rabbi Ben Zion Motsafi, a senior rabbi among the Sephardic ultra-Orthodox, added: “We must declare in a loud voice not to trade in yeshiva students and to enlist them in the army, even the wicked gentiles would be careful about this.”
Rabbi Azriel Auerbach, leader of the Jerusalem faction, said that yeshiva students are “guardians of the land” and that, among other things, they should be exempt from paying taxes. “There is a great deal of trouble when the people in power come to enact the conscription law to carry out their plot, and in their malice they demand that thousands of precious lives be brought to the places of destruction,” he said.
According to the new version of the law, all orders sent since the expiration date of the previous exemption law in 2023 will be canceled, personal sanctions on evaders will be imposed only until the age of 26, and ultra-Orthodox will be allowed to enlist in civilian service in security agencies at a rate of up to 10% of the annual enlistment target. In addition, the law contains a broad definition regarding the question of who is an ultra-Orthodox, and includes ultra-Orthodox who dropped out of the education system.