Overview

• Rabbi Dov Lando convened Haredi figures from Israel and abroad to coordinate a unified response to recent military arrests of Torah scholars.
• Raphael and Baruch Itzhakov were seized in a late-night raid at their Tel Aviv home and sentenced by a military court to 17 and 13 days’ detention for draft noncompliance.
• Baruch Itzhakov had previously served a 14-day term over a Purim arrest, marking his second imprisonment under intensified conscription enforcement.
• Rav Lando declared that the state has “declared war on Torah students” and warned that Haredi Jewry will launch a global struggle if detentions continue.
• Agudas Bnei HaYeshivos and Ezram U’Magenim have provided legal aid and instructed yeshiva students to defy enlistment orders, signaling an escalated communal pushback.