Overview
- Military Police detained two haredi brothers in Ramla, arrested a returning yeshiva student at Ben-Gurion Airport, and tried but failed to make arrests in Be’er Sheva, adding to earlier home raids in Ramat Gan and Givatayim.
- One detainee taken during shivah for his father was released after legal representation and public pressure, while Ateres Shlomo student Ariel Shamai was sentenced to 20 days in a military prison.
- Thousands rallied outside Prison 10 with round-the-clock study vigils, where senior rabbis including Moshe Hillel Hirsch and Chaim Feinstein addressed supporters and delivered a shiur.
- Leading Lithuanian-haredi rabbis set a mass prayer rally in Jerusalem for Sunday following a phone consultation between Rabbis Dov Lando and Moshe Hillel Hirsch.
- Shas resigned its Knesset committee posts to pressure Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu to advance a draft law, stating it will coordinate with other haredi factions while remaining in the coalition.