Source: Independent [UK]
“Israeli police arrested 28 people after a large mob of ultra-Orthodox men chased two female IDF soldiers through the streets. Chaotic scenes broke out in the city of Bnei Brak amid anger over conscription orders, with police using stun grenades to control the situation. Footage from Sunday afternoon shows two women being escorted away by police while a huge crowd of men chased after them, shouting and kicking wheelie bins along the street. The rioters injured five police officers, overturned a patrol car and set fire to a police motorcycle, reports say. … Rabbi Dov Lando, the spiritual leader of the Degel HaTorah party, was forced on Sunday to deny that his rhetoric was responsible for inciting violence against Israel’s military forces. The rabbi ordered students at ultra-orthodox schools to ignore, on religious grounds, conscription orders to the IDF, an order usually received at the age of 18.” (02/16/26)