Following the wave of haredi demonstrations in recent days, protesting the arrests of three haredim for avoiding induction into the Israel Defense Forces, Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach, the leader of the Jerusalem faction (Peleg Yerushalmi), is escalating his statements and in a letter published in the Peles newspaper under his presidency, he is calling for a "big rally" in the next few days.
Rabbi Auerbach said the IDF is seeking schemes to secularize the haredim via what he called "destructive decrees" "to uproot our religion."