At least 11 people from Israel's Charedi community were arrested last night, after protests broke out against the detention of two strictly-Orthodox men who refused enlistment into the army.
More than 300 people from the strictly-Orthodox Mea Shearim community took to the streets of Jerusalem to demonstrate against the arrests - and the conscription of religious Jews in general.
The detained men, who are 18- and 19-year-old yeshivah students, were arrested last week after ignoring their summons to the IDF enlistment offices. They are both being held in the army's Prison 6 outside Haifa.
Protesters brandished placards calling conscription "forced genocide" that "betrays our faith".
