Overview

• Rabbi Moshe Sternbuch in Jerusalem likened the government's conscription policy to the Spanish Inquisition and called it a decree of annihilation.
• He said many young men are in military detention for refusing to serve and ruled that it is halachically forbidden to enlist, urging recipients to discard draft notices.
• Thousands filled the Dushinsky beis medrash for the address, which drew senior figures from the Eidah HaChareidis and the Dushinsky court.
• In Bnei Brak, Vizhnitz Av Beis Din Rav Chaim Meir Hager warned the draft's real goal is to alter Haredi spiritual identity, citing a minister's remark relayed by former MK Menachem Eliezer Moses.
• Rav Hager framed Torah study as a form of lifelong enlistment in divine service and said no force can compel entry into the army.