Overview

• Israeli authorities have stepped up enforcement of draft orders, resulting in the arrest of several yeshiva students.
• MK Meir Porush began a partial hunger strike at a tent outside Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara’s Jerusalem office.
• Porush warned that targeting full-time Torah learners risks igniting a civil war between haredi and secular Israelis.
• Communications Minister Shlomo Karhi and other right-wing allies visited Porush to denounce the attorney general’s actions against bochurim.
• Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu personally phoned Porush to inquire about his health amid the continuing protest.