Overview
- Organizers expect hundreds of thousands at a two‑hour atzeres tefillah at the city’s entrance, with Mir Yeshiva marching from its Beis Yisroel campus to the gathering point.
- Police prepared large deployments, closed key approaches to the capital including Route 1, and shut the Yitzchak Navon train station as crowds converge on Yirmiyahu and Malchei Yisroel streets.
- Religious Zionist leaders, including Har Hamor’s Rav Tzvi Tau and Rabbi David Chai Hakohen, urged participation or solidarity prayers, highlighting rare cross‑camp backing for the event.
- In a High Court hearing, Justice Yael Wilner pressed the state to imprison 5,700 declared draft evaders, reinforcing tensions as reports cited roughly ten recent arrests of returning Chabad students at Ben Gurion Airport.
- A leaked draft by MK Boaz Bismuth would drop combat quotas, count limited security‑oriented civilian service, impose targeted personal sanctions, and raise yearly enlistment targets, with Knesset debate postponed to next week at the prime minister’s request.