Yisrael Porush, son of United Torah Judaism MK Meir Porush, was arrested by police on Motzei Shabbos during a protest outside Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara in Tel Aviv.

Porush, a member of the Elad city council for the Shlomei Emunim movement, a former mayor of the Chareidi city, and leader of the Magen u-Moshi’a anti-enlistment group, was protesting against the detention of Chareidim for refusing to report to IDF draft notices.

A video posted on an official Shlomei Emunim WhatsApp group shows Porush, wearing a Tallis, entering a police vehicle. He states, “I am being arrested for blowing the shofar in the Land of Israel while there are a hundred young men in detention.”

There are around 100 Chareidim in military prison as of last week.

In a statement, Shlomei Emunim called the arrest “an outrageous violation of the right to protest,” while MK Porush stated that his son’s detention reveals the “hypocrisy” of those protesting the government. “That cannot be considered democracy,” he said, adding, “when people demonstrate against the attorney general, who demands mass arrests with governmental violence and the denial of the right to study Torah…that is forbidden, and the demonstrator must be arrested.”

Porush strongly criticized authorities, saying, “Rabbi Porush exposed this hypocrisy tonight. Thanks to him, everyone now knows that the State of Israel is not a nation of law, but a dictatorship hostile to democracy. There are unelected rulers in the legal system against whom it is forbidden to protest.”