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IDF Detains Sephardi Yeshiva Student in Ongoing Draft-Enforcement Campaign

Protesters outside Military Prison 10 view the arrest as evidence of selective targeting against Sephardic yeshiva students

Overview

  • Traffic police stopped and handed over a Sephardi bochur from Yeshivas Be’er Yehuda in Jerusalem to military police for failing to report to a draft office on Friday
  • Seven detainees remain held at Military Prison 10 as mass nightly protests and rabbinic vigils persist
  • A Matzav.com investigation finds that nearly all arrested so far are Sephardic students or baalei teshuvah studying in chozrim b’teshuvah yeshivas
  • Sephardic rabbinic leaders charge that enforcement deliberately targets their community while sparing Ashkenazim
  • The IDF asserts that operations follow existing law in non-chareidi areas and rejects allegations of discriminatory intent