this past week has seen the arrest of a couple of yeshiva bochurim who are officially AWOL from the army. While technically all bochurim are AWOL, since the Tal Law was rescinded and no new system has yet been put in place to replace it to allow yeshiva bochurim to continue learning instead of army service, , most bochurim at least have followed the guidance of Rav Shteinman who says bochurim should show up to the army draft board and go through the process, until the last stage of being drafted. These students just arrested followed Rav Shmuel Auerbach's guidance that bochurim should not appear before the draft board at all and should ignore all notices to that effect. Hence, the arrest of a couple of yeshiva bochurim, and we will probably see more...
The arrests sparked protests in various Haredi areas around the country, including RBS... here is some video from local photographer Yaakov Lederman
and some of his images..
(same comment for all the pictures - at least their hats are safe..)
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