Ultra-Orthodox Protesters in the Bnei Brak area set fire to a dumpster and then threw rocks at the firefighters who came to extinguish it, Israel's Fire and Rescue Authority said on Tuesday.
Over the course of the protest, Highway 4 was blocked to traffic in both directions, and Israeli media reported several altercations between protesters and police officers.
Bnei Brak council member Yaakov Vider denounced the protesters and said that law enforcement was behaving laxly towards them.
"Once again, a marginal extremist fringe is blocking Bnei Brak and Gush Dan, paralyzing the lives of hundreds of thousands of citizens and primarily harming the vulnerable population - seniors, the ill, children, and public transport users," he wrote in a post on X/Twitter.
"Instead of preventing the criminality that harms innocent citizens, law enforcement authorities are enabling it and even making sure to block the roads in advance for their honor," he added.
High Court of Justice calls for enforcement against draft dodgers
The protest comes after the High Court of Justice on Sunday ordered the state to take concrete steps within weeks to revoke key financial benefits from draft evaders and to move toward criminal enforcement against ultra-Orthodox (haredi) men who fail to report for military service, in one of the most forceful rulings yet in the long-running battle over haredi conscription.
The five-justice panel, led by Deputy Supreme Court President Noam Sohlberg, gave the state until June 1 to update the court on implementation on both the economic-civil track and the criminal-enforcement track.
Sarah Ben-Nun contributed to this report.