Ultra-Orthodox Jews are resisting new laws which force them to join the army
Despite unprecedented pressure to start swapping the holy books they so assiduously study for the M-16 of the Israeli army, the ultra-Orthodox young men at the Hebron Yeshiva, or religious seminary, are planning to stick to their lives of learning and prayer. They're holding out against plans to draft them into the military and the workforce, and to turn them into adherents of the Zionist, or Jewish nationalist, ideology on which the Israeli state is based.
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