Overview

• In the first such action, military police entered a Haifa family home at 1 a.m. to detain a newly married yeshiva student for evading enlistment.
• Two brothers, Raphael and Baruch Yitzchakov, were seized overnight at their Tel Aviv residence after defying IDF draft orders.
• A military court sentenced one brother to 17 days and the other to 13 days of detention, underscoring the hard-line enforcement.
• Rabbi Dov Landau hosted an emergency meeting in Bnei Brak, uniting Haredi factions to formulate a coordinated response.
• Haredi authorities have called the operations a war on Torah students and announced plans for mass demonstrations, including a rally at Jerusalem’s Bar Ilan junction.