Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) demonstrators blocked major roadways during an anti-conscription rally on Monday, August 17 delivering sharp rhetoric against military enlistment and the state. "A State of Palestine is better than a Zionist state!" protesters shouted in Hebrew, as an onlooker noted, "Alright friends, they are shouting here: 'A Palestinian state is better than a Zionist state.'" During the sit-in, demonstrators reiterated their refusal to join the 'Israeli' military, repeatedly shouting: "We will die rather than enlist!"
