{"id":294870,"date":"2026-02-17T01:03:25","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:03:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/294870\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T01:03:25","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T01:03:25","slug":"jerusalem-entrance-blocked-by-ultra-orthodox-protests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/294870\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerusalem entrance blocked by ultra-Orthodox protests"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters blocked the main road in and out of Jerusalem on Monday afternoon during a protest against being drafted into the IDF.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-886111\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">protesters<\/a> initially disrupted traffic both around the entrance to Jerusalem and on Highway 38. Police announced that they had successfully dispersed the protesters on 38.<\/p>\n<p>This protest came after mass protests occured in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/tags\/bnei-brak\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Bnei Brak<\/a> on Sunday, spurred after two female soldiers arrived for a home visit to a pre-draft candidate prior to enlistment.<\/p>\n<p>At least twenty-six haredim were arrested during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-886697\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sunday&#8217;s protest<\/a>, though N12 reported that all were released to house arrest afterwards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">According to footage circulating on social media, the mob flipped over a car while chasing the soldiers, and continued to follow them as police escorted them further away and around a corner to safety.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">\u201cA bright red line has been crossed here. We will not lend a hand to harm our female soldiers,\u201d Bennett\u2019s post read. \u201cWe will restore governance to Israel.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Tzvi Jasper contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters blocked the main road in and out of Jerusalem on Monday afternoon during a protest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":294871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62036,12184,12186,85,46,3794,953,43,52,122898],"class_list":{"0":"post-294870","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-israel","8":"tag-bnei-brak","9":"tag-haredi","10":"tag-haredi-draft","11":"tag-il","12":"tag-israel","13":"tag-jerusalem","14":"tag-naftali-bennett","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-protests","17":"tag-ultra-orthodox-draft"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=294870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/294870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/294871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=294870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=294870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=294870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}