The High Court of Justice is postponing the planned demolition of a synagogue in the Givat Ze’ev settlement outside Jerusalem for a time to be determined by police over the next two weeks.
The court rejected the police request to postpone the demolition for the end of the month, but gave them until November 17 to proceed with the order.
The High Court of Justice ruled earlier this year that the structure be razed because it was allegedly built on private Palestinian land.
Earlier, hundreds of people barricading themselves inside the Ayelet HaShahar synagogue in the settlement, with some threatening violence.
The manager of the synagogue told the Hebrew daily Maariv: “There are people here with gas balloons; one of the worshipers threatened to hang himself while other encouraged him to do so.”
According to Maariv, a Channel 10 reporter who arrived at the scene was physically attacked by those present.
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