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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 537

Kikar Hashabbat

Haredi protesters blocking a light rail train in Jerusalem on February 21, 2023. (screen capture: Twitter/Yair Levy; Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 22, 2023, 3:20 am
Ultra-Orthodox extremists riot outside Jerusalem police HQ, block light rail
Hundreds demonstrate at several locations in capital to protest detention of suspect in cellphone store torching; two arrested over disturbances
By ToI Staff
Likud party leader Benjamin Netanyahu attends Kikar HaShabbat conference at the Waldorf Astoria Jerusalem Hotel, September 12, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
September 12, 2022, 4:19 pm
Netanyahu says ‘no intention’ of removing attorney general if returned to power
Senior Likud members claimed former PM plans to fire Gali Baharav-Miara, installed by outgoing government, if party wins November elections
By Ash Obel
Screen capture from video showing police dispersing ultra-Orthodox protesters from Kikar Hashabat intersection, Jerusalem, on Memorial Day, April 18, 2018. (YouTube)
April 18, 2018, 5:24 pm
Ultra-Orthodox protesters try to disrupt Memorial Day salute in Jerusalem
Police disperse demonstrators at capital’s Kikar Hashabat intersection before nation marks minute of silence for fallen soldiers
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative. Ultra-Orthodox men protest against the arrest of an IDF draft-dodger, in Jerusalem August 19, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 21, 2017, 9:02 am
Five police officers injured during ultra-Orthodox rioting
Youth arrested as police disperse demonstrators in Jerusalem protesting IDF draft; soldier attacked
By ToI Staff
President Reuven Rivlin at the President's Residence in Jerusalem, September 14, 2016. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 1, 2016, 1:12 pm
Rivlin apologizes for proposing changes to religious status-quo
After raising ultra-Orthodox ire with suggestions that religious matters be decided locally, president says he was trying to ease tensions
By ToI Staff
Democratic presidential nominee Hillary Clinton speaks at a campaign rally with Vice President Joe Biden (L) in Scranton, Pennsylvania on August 15, 2016. (AFP PHOTO/DOMINICK REUTER)
August 25, 2016, 6:17 pm
In Israel’s ultra-Orthodox press, Hillary Clinton is invisible
Democrat’s potential ascension to presidency is renewing debate in some Haredi circles over acceptability of photos of women
By Daniella Cheslow
Illustrative picture: Matzah (photo credit: Sophie Gordon/Flash90)
April 3, 2016, 12:00 pm
Tehran Jews begin making matzah
As Passover festival approaches, Jewish community in Iran prepares traditional unleavened bread
By ToI Staff and Agencies
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at the Prime Minister's Office in Jerusalem, September 20, 2015. (Ohad Zwigenberg/Pool)
October 1, 2015, 5:54 pm
Netanyahu avoids Pakistani leader in New York
Prime minister cancels dinner plans at a plush eatery after Nawaz Sharif books a table
By Stuart Winer
View of the settlement of Givat Zeev, near Jerusalem. (Hadas Parush/Flash90)
August 10, 2015, 12:58 am
Givat Ze’ev synagogue evacuated ahead of planned demolition
Shul in settlement outside Jerusalem allegedly built on Palestinian land; High Court to hold final hearing next week
By ToI Staff
Bentzi Gopstein, head of Lehava, in Jerusalem's Old City, October 30, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 8, 2015, 1:41 am
Catholic Church files complaint against extreme-right group leader
Bentzi Gopshtain, head of the Lehava organization, advocated burning mosques and churches at panel earlier this week
By Adiv Sterman
Lehava head Bentzi Gopstein at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court in Jerusalem on December 18, 2014. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
August 6, 2015, 8:47 am
Radical Jewish group’s head advocates burning churches
Benzi Gopshtain of Lehava says Jewish law mandates putting churches to the torch, prepared to sit in prison for saying so
By ToI Staff
Member of Knesset Rabbi Yisrael Eichler (Miriam Alster/Flash90)
June 18, 2015, 9:41 pm
Ultra-Orthodox MK: Women of the Wall same as church arsonists
Yisrael Eichler tells PM that nondenominational service attendees are ‘no less dangerous’ than hate-crime perpetrators
By Jonathan Beck and ToI Staff
Sephardic Chief Rabbi Yitzhak Yosef, left, speaks with his brother David Yosef, April 5, 2015. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
June 8, 2015, 6:58 pm
Chief rabbi excoriates Riskin for causing ‘conflict’
Sephardi rabbinical leader Yitzhak Yosef slams US-born rabbi over ruling on blessing uttered by men
By Stuart Winer
Illustrative: The 2015 Netanyahu government as photographed on Tuesday, May 19, 2015, with womens faces pixelated by the ultra-Orthodox Behadrey Haredim website. (Flash 90)
June 4, 2015, 6:10 am
They would have blurred Golda Meir’s face, too
The ultra-Orthodox papers’ censorship of women’s faces has been entrenched for decades, experts point out, and hardly represents a shift to radicalization
By Marissa Newman
Illustrative: The rebbe of the Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty, center. (Yaakov Naumi/Flash90)
May 26, 2015, 9:56 am
Haredi leaders urge Rivlin to help free US Jewish criminal
In rare pilgrimage to president’s official residence, rabbis seek aid in the case of fraudster Rabbi Mordechai Samet
By Judah Ari Gross
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