{"id":74044,"date":"2024-07-02T13:21:46","date_gmt":"2024-07-02T09:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/?p=74044"},"modified":"2024-07-02T14:26:32","modified_gmt":"2024-07-02T10:26:32","slug":"ultra-orthodox-israelis-protest-against-military-conscription-order","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/news\/74044\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Orthodox Israelis protest against military conscription order"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men poured into the streets of Jerusalem on Sunday night to protest against Israel’s top court’s decision on mandatory military conscription.<\/span><\/p>\n

“We all declare to the court: we’ll die, we won’t enlist,” reads one of the posters.<\/span><\/p>\n

According to the Supreme Court’s ruling last week, there is no legal basis for exempting ultra-Orthodox religious scholars from mandatory military conscription. <\/span><\/p>\n

The decision raises the political stakes for the two ultra-Orthodox political parties upon which Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu’s thin parliamentary coalition rests. Carving out military-service exemptions is one of their key political goals. Without that their religious leaders say they have no reason to be in the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jewish men poured into the streets of Jerusalem on Sunday night to protest against Israel’s top court’s decision on mandatory military conscription. “We all declare to the court: we’ll die, we won’t enlist,” reads one of the posters. According to the Supreme Court’s ruling last week, there is no legal basis for […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":73994,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,35,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-74044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","category-politics","category-world"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74044","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=74044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/74044\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73994"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=74044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=74044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abcmedia.am\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=74044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}