Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest Israel army draft

ALJAZEERA: …”The government wants to uproot [our traditions] and secularise us, they call it a melting pot, but people cannot be melted. You cannot change our [way of life],” Rabbi David Zycherman told the crowd…

Military service is compulsory in Israel, with men serving three years and women two.

But tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox are currently exempted from army service by virtue of being enrolled in religious seminaries, or yeshivas… (more)