Israel: The Flag-Burning Crisis: Israel’s Haredi Showdown With the State A massive anti-draft rally in Jerusalem has again exposed one of Israel’s deepest internal fractures: the long-standing clash between the Ultra-Orthodox Haredi community and the secular Israeli state over military service, money, and national identity. At the protest, thousands of Haredi men — many of whom receive extensive government subsidies — burned Israeli flags in the streets, rejecting the state’s demand that they se