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Israeli ultra-Orthodox men launched a protest outside an Israeli army base on Monday following a draft call for 1,200 men from the community following decades of exclusion from military conscription. The 1,200 draftees, who received their call up following a divisive Supreme Court ruling that determined the exemption on their ultra-Orthodox Jewish community as illegal, are set to arrive at the Tel Hashomer base on Monday and Tuesday. Religious students had been exempted from the draft but many had kept this status for decades while others had dropped out of their studies. According to Haaretz,…

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