WATCH: Haredim spark outrage, singing against the draft law, while soldiers fight for their lives

"We don’t believe in the rule of heretics, nor do we report to their offices," sang hundreds of yeshiva students from "Ateret Shlomo" on Wednesday night during the wedding of Rabbi Shalom Ber Sorotzkin’s son.

The lyrics, aimed at the state (termed "heretics"), refer to the Haredi rabbis’ directive not to report to recruitment offices if summoned or issued an order, amid the absence of a law regulating yeshiva students’ status. The song is an anthem of "Neturei Karta," an extreme Haredi faction that rejects cooperation with state authorities and is known for its anti-Zionist stance.

A source from Rabbi Sorotzkin’s yeshiva told Walla: "It was in the spirit of Purim." However, social media erupted with sharp criticism after it emerged that the yeshiva received 26 million shekels in state funding in 2023.

MK Gilad Kariv reacted angrily during a Knesset Constitution Committee session: "A yeshiva head educates his students—who could defend the country’s borders—not only to evade service but also to mock those who went to fight and protect. He should have opened his son’s draft-dodging wedding celebrations with a moment of silence for the fallen, but instead, he mocks bereaved families. Shameless arrogance—you should hang your heads in shame."

Opposition leader Yair Lapid wrote on X: "There’s nothing Jewish or religious about draft-dodging. The October 7 government grants them exemptions at our children’s expense, and no one in Likud will stand up and say, ‘Enough, this isn’t our way.’ A national disgrace."

MK Elazar Stern added: "They don’t believe in our rule—but they do believe in our money and blood."

Yisrael Beytenu chairman Avigdor Liberman commented on the wedding footage: "Don’t enlist? Don’t vote," referencing his party’s proposed bill to strip voting rights from those who evade IDF service.