Upset with the arrest of a haredi yeshiva student who dodged the draft and with the government's temporary hold on all funding to haredi yeshivas to comply with a High Court of Justice ruling, thousands of haredim took to the streets today to protest and riot. And at least one haredi leader said the arrest and the funding freeze means war. “…We will start a war with the State of Israel, and it will burn like wildfire. We, Holocaust survivors, are now encountering a spiritual Holocaust.They will fail in their attempt to lead us to annihilation. We shall not compromise nor negotiate.”
File photo: Haredim throwing stones at police in Mea Shearim in July 2011
Upset with the arrest of a haredi yeshiva student who dodged the draft and with the government's temporary hold on all funding to haredi yeshivas to comply with a High Court of Justice ruling, thousands of haredim took to the streets today to protest and riot.
And at least one haredi leader said the arrest and the funding freeze means war.
The Times of Israel reports:
…Rabbi David Zicherman, one of the organizers of the Jerusalem protests, called on the ultra-Orthodox public to start a civil disobedience movement and stop paying taxes.
“You are pushing us into a corner,” he said of the government. “We will start a war with the State of Israel, and it will burn like wildfire. We, Holocaust survivors, are now encountering a spiritual Holocaust.”
“They will fail in their attempt to lead us to annihilation,” he warned. “We shall not compromise nor negotiate.”…
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