We won’t only protest in the streets, we’ll topple the economy, a leader of the ultra-Orthodox community told the religious weekly Besod Siah this week, in response to the Plesner Committee’s recommendations to draft religious men to military or national service.
Rabbi Baruch Genot, from the central ultra-Orthodox city of Elad, a prominent student of the super-influential Rabbi Chaim Kanievsky, said creating a run on the banks, buying only imported goods and boycotting any secular-owned business would put the Israeli economy into a tailspin.