Overview
- Two Education and Youth Corps commanders on a home visit were mistaken for draft enforcers, surrounded by a crowd and extracted by police without injuries.
- Rioters set a police motorcycle on fire, overturned a police vehicle and hurled objects at officers, with police later reporting religious items burned in the bike’s compartment.
- Police detained roughly two dozen people across the disturbances, and by Monday most were released, with reports citing only two placed on brief house arrest.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and IDF Chief of Staff Eyal Zamir condemned the assault, and leading haredi rabbis including Yitzhak Yosef, Dov Lando and Moshe Hillel Hirsch denounced the rioters.
- Defense lawyers and local officials allege excessive force and “show arrests,” as police continue deployments and reported using stun grenades during related Jerusalem clashes.