Overview
- A late-night attempted arrest by Military Police in Modi’in on Tuesday night drew hundreds after a Black Color alert, protesters surrounded the building, clashes followed, and the student was released after negotiators intervened.
- The IDF and Israel Police issued sharply different accounts of the Modi’in episode with each blaming the other for the decision to abandon the arrest and issue the student an order to regularize his status.
- Attorney General Gali Baharav-Miara has ordered urgent improvement of proactive enforcement, citing official figures showing gaps at borders and airports that allowed dozens of draft evaders to leave or return undetected.
- A senior IDF official said Military Police are unable to carry out arrests when met by mass chareidi protests and has asked for substantially larger Israel Police deployments to support operations.
- Demonstrations have spread to Jerusalem and Bnei Brak with footage showing stun grenades, batons and an officer ripping a protester’s tzitzis, and activists warned that the detention of a bochur in Eilat could prompt further large-scale protests around the Oct. 7 anniversary.