Haredi protesters blocked the railway tracks at Tel Aviv's HaHagana station and near Ben Gurion Airport in protest of the arrest of 190 haredi men, according to reports. The action halted rail service on the line toward Lod, as The Zioneer reported in an earlier bulletin at 18:05.
The protest is part of a wider wave of haredi demonstrations that has intensified since the afternoon. At 15:12, police transferred 19 draft evaders to the military police in Tel Aviv, triggering earlier highway blockades on Route 1 and Route 6, which police cleared by reopening all Jerusalem-area roads at 19:44. The protesters are opposing the enforcement of conscription orders on haredi yeshiva students, a policy that has drawn tens of thousands into the streets over the past week. No reports of injuries have been made at the HaHagana or airport blockades.
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