More than 200 religious Jews today dem### in front of the Israel Consuladte here in protest against the bill passed in a ### reading by the Israel Parliament to draft young women for non-military se### if they claim exemption from military service on religious grounds.
A delegation of the demonstrators was received by Avraham Harman, ### Consul General, to whom they presented their arguments against the Israel ### Placards denouncing the bill were carried by some of the demonstrators w### eted the Consulate. Police guarded the building and there were no inciden###.
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