When the police and the army have to flee the Haredim inside Israel, few red lines remain

Israel from the Inside with Daniel Gordis · Feb 17, 2026 · 1m

If you blinked during the first few seconds of the video above, which was posted by YNet on its Facebook Reels, you missed the important part. So watch it again …

What you’ll see are two women wearing white shirts, being hurried away by police from a menacing crowd in Bnai Brak, a Haredi section of greater Tel Aviv.

What’s with the white shirts? That’s what many women soldiers wear under their uniforms.

So what happened to their uniforms? They took them off, hoping that the gathering crowd might get confused and not realize that they were the soldiers that the enraged Jews were hunting for…