Hundreds of thousands are expected to flood the streets of Yerushalayim tomorrow to protest the government’s giyus decree and the arrests of yeshiva bochurim. Gedolei Yisroel will stand on balconies along Yirmiyahu and Sarei Yisrael Streets, joining the masses in tefillah.
The organizers have stressed that the event will be entirely devoted to tefillah and kiddush Hashem, with no political overtones. The gathering is being held in protest of the threats to Torah learning and the detentions of bnei yeshivos.
The main atzarah will begin at 2:30 p.m. at the entrance to Yerushalayim and is expected to continue for approximately two hours. The program will include Tehillim and special tefillos composed for the occasion.
The protest area will extend from the Chords Bridge toward the city entrance up to the gas station, continuing along Rechov Yirmiyahu to Rechov HaTzvi, as well as along Sarei Yisrael, Shazar Boulevard, and Rechov Yafo up to their junctions. Gedolei Yisroel and roshei yeshiva will be positioned on balconies along these main routes to participate and lead the tefillos.
The atzarah will conclude around 4:30 p.m., close to shkiah, to allow the crowd to disperse safely. Organizers emphasize that all participants must follow safety and security instructions, maintain decorum, and ensure the event proceeds in a spirit of kiddush Hashem.
Hundreds of buses are being organized independently across the country to bring participants to Yerushalayim. The public is urged to follow official guidance from the organizing committee.
Police are preparing for the massive event, deploying hundreds of officers and Border Police units to ensure public safety, direct traffic, and maintain order.
Traffic Restrictions:
From 12:00 p.m. until the conclusion of the event, Route 1 will be closed in both directions from Latrun to Givat Shaul, including entrances via Route 16 and Sha’ar HaGai. Entry into Yerushalayim through Route 1 will be permitted only for prearranged buses, which will be directed by police to designated drop-off zones. Private vehicles will not be allowed to use Route 1.
Drivers exiting the city will be directed through the Arza Tunnel, Route 16, or Route 443, which will remain open for private traffic. Within Yerushalayim, the main entrance area and surrounding roads will be closed, as well as central city routes. Additional closures and delays are expected near the protest zone.
Gedolei Yisroel — including leading roshei yeshiva, rebbes, and rabbonim — have called on the public to join this historic event, to stand together in unity and sanctify the name of Hashem before the world.
{Matzav.com}
Tucker Carlson’s latest episode took a shocking turn when he invited white nationalist Nick Fuentes onto his show for what turned into a friendly discussion about Jews, Israel, and blame, JTA reports. Carlson opened the program with a mix of curiosity and defiance. “Everybody’s going to be like, ‘You’re a Nazi, you just like Fuentes,’” he said. “But then I’m like, ‘I don’t think Fuentes is going away. Ben Shapiro tried to strangle him in the crib in college, and now he’s bigger than ever.’”
The conversation, long anticipated by followers of both men, finally confirmed that Carlson—who has remained influential within President Donald Trump’s circle—was willing to engage openly with one of America’s most notorious antisemites. Fuentes, who has built his notoriety on antisemitic rhetoric and extremist nationalism, didn’t hold back. When asked whom he most wanted to see removed from the conservative establishment, he said bluntly: “These Zionist Jews.”
Carlson, whose audience still numbers in the millions, has drawn criticism for increasingly catering to voices that promote antisemitic and anti-Israel sentiment on the right. The decision to host Fuentes came amid a growing tide of conspiratorial and extremist ideas taking root among younger conservatives. “As far as the Jews are concerned, you cannot actually divorce Israel and the neocons and all those things that you talk about from Jewishness: ethnicity, religion, identity,” Fuentes told Carlson, asserting that Jewish identity and support for Israel are inseparable.
In an apparent attempt to distance himself, Carlson interjected, signaling mild disagreement. “I’m not that interested in ‘the Jews,’ but I am very interested in the foreign policy question,” he said, adding later, “The second you’re like, ‘Well, actually, it’s the Jews,’ first of all, it’s against my Christian faith. Like, I just don’t believe that and I never will. Period. And second, then it becomes a way to discredit. That’s when I was like, ‘This guy’s a fed.’”
But Fuentes persisted, describing Jews as a people who “resist assimilation for thousands of years.” He argued that their connection to Israel was intrinsic, saying, “They’re a stateless people. They’re unassimilable… And now they have this territory in Israel. There’s a deep religious affection for the state. It’s bound up in their identity.” He traced what he called the “Jewish origins” of neoconservatism to “Jewish leftists who were mugged by reality when they saw the surprise attack in the Yom Kippur War.”
Fuentes went on to claim that his hostility toward Jewish influence began as disillusionment with his conservative idols. “Ben Shapiro, Mark Levin and Dennis Prager were my right-wing heroes in high school,” he said, recounting how his admiration faded after realizing “how pro-Israel” they were. When a colleague from The Daily Wire asked if he wanted to visit Israel, Fuentes replied, “No, I think I have everything I need right here in America…. And that was a little bit of foreshadowing.”
He said his attempts to question support for Israel were met with accusations of antisemitism. “I would say, ‘So, why do we give Israel all this money?’ They would say, ‘You’re asking it in an antisemitic way.’” The rejection, he claimed, led him to embrace conspiratorial thinking about Jewish power in media and politics.
Fuentes presented his worldview as one of reluctant revelation. “If you are a Jewish person in America, it’s sort of rational self-interest, politically, to say, ‘I am a minority. I am a religious, ethnic minority. This is not really my home. My ancestral home is in Israel,’” he said. “They have this international community across borders, extremely organized, that is putting the interests of themselves before the interests of their home country.”
Carlson responded with agreement on one point: Israel. “I always thought it’s great to criticize and question our relationship with Israel because it’s insane and it hurts us,” he told Fuentes. “We get nothing out of it. I completely agree with you there.” He went on to denounce Christian Zionists, including former US Ambassador Mike Huckabee, saying they’d been “seized by this brain virus.”
Discussing the war in Gaza, Carlson added, “One of the reasons I’m mad about Gaza is because the Israeli position is, everyone who lives in Gaza is a terrorist because of how they were born, including the women and the children. That’s not a Western view. That’s an Eastern view. That’s non-Christian. That’s totally incompatible with Christianity and Western civilization. They say, ‘Oh, we’re the defenders of Western civilization.’ Not with that attitude, you’re not.”
The episode also revisited Fuentes’s past controversies, including his notorious 2022 dinner at Mar-a-Lago with Ye and Trump. “This guy’s hardcore. I like this guy,” Trump said at the meal, according to Fuentes—though Trump later claimed not to have known who he was. When asked by Carlson what kind of America he envisioned, Fuentes was explicit: “We do need to be right-wing. We do need to be Christian. We do, on some level, need to be pro-white,” he said. “Not to the exclusion of everybody else, but recognizing that white people have a special heritage here, as Americans.”
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As final preparations are underway for the historic atzeres tefillah scheduled to take place at the entrance to Yerushalayim tomorrow protesting the arrest of bnei yeshiva for the offense of learning Torah, Yeshivas Mir Yerushalayim has announced that its talmidim will walk together with the roshei yeshiva and rabbonim from the yeshiva campus in the Beis Yisroel neighborhood to the site of the gathering.
Mir, the largest yeshiva in Eretz Yisroel with thousands of bochurim and avreichim, issued a special notice detailing the plan. According to the announcement, the talmidim will depart on foot from the yeshiva courtyard at 2:10 p.m., led by the roshei yeshiva and rabbonim. They will proceed to the intersection of Malchei Yisroel and HaTurim Streets, where they will join the masses of participants for the tefillos and recitation of Tehillim at the massive demonstration.
The yeshiva’s official notice reads: “For all bnei hayeshiva hakedoshah—the avreichim and bochurim, may they be protected. In response to the call of Maranan gedolei Yisroel and our rosh yeshiva shlit”a to take part in the atzeres tefillah in the streets of the city, to cry out to Hashem over the affront to the honor of Torah—for we have none to rely on but our Father in Heaven—on Thursday, 8 Cheshvan, bnei hayeshiva hakedoshah, together with the roshei and rabbonim of the yeshiva, will gather in unity at the corner of Malchei Yisroel and HaTurim Streets at 2:30 p.m. The procession from the yeshiva courtyard, led by the roshei and rabbonim, will depart at 2:10 p.m.”
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The latest draft of the Chok HaGiyus (Conscription Law) prepared by MK Boaz Bismuth (Likud), chairman of the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee, introduces a series of personal sanctions aimed at yeshiva students who receive a draft order and fail to report for service, as reported yesterday by Matzav.com.
According to the proposal, those who evade enlistment will face the loss of several rights and benefits. They will be barred from obtaining a driver’s license until the age of 23—by which time many in the yeshivah community are already married—prohibited from leaving the country, and denied access to scholarships, state employment, housing subsidies, and other financial benefits if annual recruitment targets are not met.
Committee legal adviser Adv. Miri Frankel-Shor submitted initial comments to the chairman, though she stated that her full position will be presented at the official hearing next week. Among her key recommendations is raising the first-year draft target from 4,800 to 5,760 recruits, arguing that the earlier figure applied to the previous year and no longer reflects 2025 demographics.
The plan sets out a gradual recruitment ladder: 5,760 recruits in the second year, 6,840 in the third, 7,920 in the fourth, and within five years, the conscription of half of each chareidi age cohort.
One significant change is the removal of the combat-service quota. The IDF clarified that it cannot control the precise number of soldiers assigned to combat roles, leading lawmakers to drop the requirement. The definition of “national-security service” will be expanded to include volunteering in rescue organizations and other emergency-response agencies.
The bill also narrows the definition of who qualifies as chareidi for legal purposes: anyone who studied in a yeshivah for at least two years will be counted within the chareidi population. Lawmakers said this definition was intended to include dropouts from yeshivah frameworks who still identify with the community.
The proposal limits the scope of the driving ban: it will apply only to new draft dodgers, meaning those who already hold a driver’s license will not have it revoked, in order to avoid retroactive punishment. The travel ban will also be capped—applying only until age 26—after concerns were raised that indefinite restrictions on leaving Israel could violate basic legal rights.
Public debate on the bill has been postponed to next week. Officially, the delay was made at the request of Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu, who asked to review the text. However, sources said the decision was also influenced by appeals from chareidi factions who did not want discussions to coincide with Thursday’s massive “Million-Man Rally” in Jerusalem.
As previously reported by Matzav.com, the IDF chief of staff will establish a special committee to oversee implementation of the law. Members will include a retired dayan from the Chief Rabbinical Court, a former IDF chief rabbi, a representative from the Human Resources Directorate, and two senior officers appointed by the chief of staff.
The committee’s mandate will be to assess whether the IDF is meeting its commitments to create service tracks suitable for chareidim and to monitor compliance with the recruitment benchmarks.
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