Ultra-Orthodox extremists cause significant damage to Jerusalem light rail

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and police, in a protest against a national military draft bill, Jerusalem, April 10, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews and police, in a protest against a national military draft bill, Jerusalem, April 10, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90/File)

Ultra-Orthodox extremists have caused hundreds of thousands of shekels in damages to Jerusalem’s light rail during recent protests against a new planned route for the train, Channel 12 reports.

In one of the protests, participants attacked one Arab worker with an axe and a second employee had his leg broken and was shot by an air rifle, the network says.

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