Violent clashes broke out in Jerusalem between Israeli police and ultra-Orthodox Jews as thousands of Haredim protested attempts to draft them into the army, Anadolu agency reports according to Israeli media.

Protesters attacked the car of Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, pelting it with stones and accusing him of complicity in the conscription of Haredim, the state-run Israel Broadcasting Authority and Israeli Yedioth Ahronoth daily reported.