The Israeli Police have given their final approval for a massive protest to be held Thursday afternoon at the entrance to Yerushalayim, in response to the continued imprisonment of yeshivah bochurim, including talmidim from Yeshivas Ateres Shlomo, among them Ariel Shamai.
The event, which organizers are calling a “million-man march,” is expected to draw hundreds of thousands of participants from across the country.
Sources told B’Chadrei Chareidim that the final police authorization came following an additional meeting between representatives of the organizing committee and the Jerusalem District Police.
Preparations for the protest include the closure of major routes, from the entrance to Yerushalayim, along Sarei Yisrael and Bar-Ilan, continuing through Kikar Maran, with police bracing for massive crowds expected to fill the area.
According to organizers, the demonstration will be held without a formal stage or sound trucks, in keeping with the tone of tefillah and hisorerus that rabbanim have called for.
Gedolei Yisrael from the Litvish, Chassidish, and Sephardic communities are expected to take part, with tefillos to be recited from a central balcony that will serve as the symbolic focal point of the gathering.
The protest comes amid growing outrage over the government’s continued enforcement of the draft decree and what chareidim say are escalating efforts to criminalize limud hatorah in Eretz Yisrael.
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Why not organize a parade to thank those who lost lives, limbs, and parnassah to protect you? Aren’t we all about hakoras hatov? Instead, we have the hypocrisy to say ‘we couldn’t stop learning, it was our koach hatorah that freed the hostages and stopped the missiles… but um, we are going to stop learning now and protest, because koach hatorah won’t stop draft laws or free bochurim, right? we’re going to join the evil government and get deeply involved in politics because koach hatorah won’t bring us money… you, know, that thing called hishtadlus? we suddenly believe in it … when we’re not the ones risking anything’ What a kiddush hashem!!
Why didn’t they do a tefillah rally on behalf of the hundreds of thousands of soldiers who sacrificed their learning (for the many thousands of frum soldiers), their parnosa, their family lives, their emotional and physical health, and even their very lives on behalf of everyone in Israel?
Where’s the draft evading Arab arrests
Oh right they’re not drafted because they can’t be trusted, but they could be trusted with Healthcare and education funds, and also a passport. I guess some citizens get away with contributing nothing
when will the Zionists arrest Tibi, Odeh and his ilk for not serving? The Zionists focus is on stopping Torah not so called spreading the burden
Dreambig – Why doesn’t the secular Israeli government make such a הכרת הטוב parade? Oh, they’re too busy going back to their squabbling and political maneuvering, of which the Chareidi draft is just one component. A parade might also ח״ו result in הכרת הטוב to the politicians they are seeking to throw out…
Nosson Nota – There were many such Tefillah assemblies in Yeshivos and Shuls all over the country. Some of them were shown here on YWN. It wasn’t legal to make such a mass gathering in one location when missile strikes were still a threat. You forgot all these things?
let us hope every Yid will take this opportunity and pray during the time of the gathering for the Geulah!