Israeli police estimated that more than 300,000 haredim from all ultra-Orthodox streams gathered in what was dubbed a “million-man march” at the entrance to Israel’s capital on Thursday to protest efforts to enlist them to the Israel Defense Forces and to condemn arrests by the IDF of yeshiva students, who have ignored enlistment orders.

One death was reported during the demonstration. Menachem Mendel Litzman, 20, fell from a height of about 20 stories at a construction site in Jerusalem. The police said it was an apparent suicide.

The rally, in which protesters prayed and recited Psalms, included participants from the Lithuanian, Chassidic and Sephardic Haredi communities.

Some 2,000 police officers, including Border Police, secured the rally and directed traffic in Jerusalem, which wa

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