A video circulating Sunday evening shows yeshiva students in Jerusalem engaging in an arm-wrestling match with a woman, followed by shouts of 'this is allowed but enlisting isn't?' The clip was posted by Yossi Levy, director of the Netzach Yehuda association which integrates Haredim into the IDF, who reacted angrily: 'This is surely the next Torah scholar — I was horrified.'
A video circulating Sunday evening on social media shows yeshiva students in Jerusalem engaging in an arm-wrestling match with a woman on the street, with bystanders shouting at them: 'This is allowed but enlisting isn't?' The clip was posted by Yossi Levy, director of the Netzach Yehuda association, which works to integrate Haredim into the IDF. Levy wrote in response: 'This is surely the next Torah scholar — I was horrified.' The incident comes amid heightened public tensions over Haredi draft enforcement, with multiple yeshivas reported in recent weeks to be providing legal guidance ahead of potential military arrests, as The Zioneer reported on June 16. The video is unverified beyond the original posting by Levy.
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