An Ultra-Orthodox Jew, who is largely exempt from military service, holds a placard while protesting with others against conscription by blocking a highway near the centre of the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on April 28, 2026. Israel's Supreme Court on April 26 ordered the state to cut financial benefits to ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. There is a long-standing exemption from compulsory national service for ultra-Orthodox men who engage in full-time religious study, which dates back to Israel's founding in 1948. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images) /

TOPSHOT - Israel mounted police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are largely exempt from military service, protesting against conscription by blocking a highway near the centre of the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on April 28, 2026. Israel's Supreme Court on April 26 ordered the state to cut financial benefits to ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. There is a long-standing exemption from compulsory national service for ultra-Orthodox men who engage in full-time religious study, which dates back to Israel's founding in 1948. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images) /

Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are largely exempt from military service, hold placards while protesting against conscription by blocking a highway near the centre of the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on April 28, 2026. Israel's Supreme Court on April 26 ordered the state to cut financial benefits to ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. There is a long-standing exemption from compulsory national service for ultra-Orthodox men who engage in full-time religious study, which dates back to Israel's founding in 1948. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images) /

Israel mounted police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are largely exempt from military service, protesting against conscription by blocking a highway near the centre of the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on April 28, 2026. Israel's Supreme Court on April 26 ordered the state to cut financial benefits to ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. There is a long-standing exemption from compulsory national service for ultra-Orthodox men who engage in full-time religious study, which dates back to Israel's founding in 1948. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images) /

Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are largely exempt from military service, hold placards while protesting against conscription by blocking a highway near the centre of the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on April 28, 2026. Israel's Supreme Court on April 26 ordered the state to cut financial benefits to ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. There is a long-standing exemption from compulsory national service for ultra-Orthodox men who engage in full-time religious study, which dates back to Israel's founding in 1948. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images) /

Israeli police disperse ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are largely exempt from military service, protesting against conscription by blocking a highway near the centre of the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on April 28, 2026. Israel's Supreme Court on April 26 ordered the state to cut financial benefits to ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. There is a long-standing exemption from compulsory national service for ultra-Orthodox men who engage in full-time religious study, which dates back to Israel's founding in 1948. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images) /

(FILES) A takeaway delivery driver rides a bike in Paris on March 13, 2024, two days after EU states endorsed controversial rules to cover app workers in the so-called gig economy, after weeks of wrangling over the watered-down text. Platform workers must be treated as employees, French left-wing MPs demanded on April 28, 2026. They are set to table a bill, with France having just a few months left to transpose a European directive to this effect into national law. For several years now, the self-employed status of platform workers has been strongly contested by trade unions, NGOs and some politicians, who believe it amounts to disguised employment. (Photo by Guillaume BAPTISTE / AFP via Getty Images)

Ultra-Orthodox Jews, who are largely exempt from military service, stand under a bridge while protesting against conscription by blocking a highway near the centre of the Israeli city of Bnei Brak on April 28, 2026. Israel's Supreme Court on April 26 ordered the state to cut financial benefits to ultra-Orthodox Jews who refuse to answer conscription call-ups. There is a long-standing exemption from compulsory national service for ultra-Orthodox men who engage in full-time religious study, which dates back to Israel's founding in 1948. (Photo by Jack GUEZ / AFP via Getty Images) /