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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 500

Mea Shearim

Palestinian flags and anti-Israel posters that were seized by Jerusalem police during operation in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood on February 17, 2025. (Israel Police)
Jerusalem police confiscate Palestinian flags, anti-Zionist posters in Haredi area
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Residents of Mea Shearim neighborhood hurl eggs at officers as they work; posters in Hebrew, English, and Arabic bore messages including ‘Jews are not Zionists’
Palestinian flags and anti-Israel posters that were seized by Jerusalem police during operation in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood on February 17, 2025. (Israel Police)
February 17, 2025, 4:56 pm
Jerusalem police confiscate Palestinian flags, anti-Zionist posters in Haredi area
Residents of Mea Shearim neighborhood hurl eggs at officers as they work; posters in Hebrew, English, and Arabic bore messages including ‘Jews are not Zionists’
By Charlie Summers and ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police in Jerusalem, December 15, 2022. (Israel Police)
January 30, 2023, 10:36 pm
Haredi suspect in serious injury of woman at protest says he’s ‘proud’ to be in jail
In letter displayed on posters around capital’s Mea Shearim neighborhood, Meir Kazav asks to be moved to a cell without a television to avoid being drawn into sin
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police in Jerusalem, December 15, 2022. (Israel Police)
December 25, 2022, 8:55 pm
Police arrest suspect over blazing dumpster that injured mother during Haredi riot
Suspect from Mea Shearim in Jerusalem, where anti-police riot two weeks ago led to Mirel Dzalovsky being hospitalized; she remains in serious but stable condition
By ToI Staff
Yehoshua Dadon seen following a hearing at the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court, days before being indicted over a fire that destroyed a cell phone store in the Geula neighborhood in Jerusalem, December 18, 2022. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 23, 2022, 4:00 pm
Haredi man whose arrest sparked riot indicted for arson of Jerusalem cellphone store
Yehoshua Dadon also charged with extortion by threats and obstruction of justice over torching of shop that sells ‘non-kosher’ phones
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox men stand under a sign stating that the entrance of groups and of people in clothes that are not modest offend the feeling of the citizens in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, on March 7, 2013. (Nati Shohat/Flash 90)
December 20, 2022, 3:27 pm
Politicians fume as ultra-Orthodox neighborhood grocery found setting men-only hours
Though it began under their tenure, Lapid and Liberman tie Jerusalem store’s policy to incoming government’s plan to permit gender-segregation in public spaces
By Judah Ari Gross
Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police in Jerusalem, December 15, 2022. (Israel Police)
December 20, 2022, 12:04 pm
Family of woman injured in Haredi protest defends culprits: ‘They didn’t mean harm’
Relatives of Mirel Dzalovsky, who remains unconscious and on a ventilator, say those using incident to advance their agenda are ‘fanning the flames of hate’
By ToI Staff
The scene in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood where a 40-year-old woman was hit by a dumpster that was pushed by ultra-Orthodox rioters, December 16, 2022. (Flash90)
December 19, 2022, 5:40 am
Clip shows moment burning dumpster pushed by ultra-Orthodox rioters hits J’lem woman
40-year-old mother of 10 still hospitalized in serious condition; police issue gag order on investigation into incident; nephew blames ‘anarchists’ dressed as Haredim
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox rioters clash with police in Jerusalem, December 15, 2022. (Israel Police)
December 16, 2022, 4:18 pm
Condemnation pours in after woman seriously hurt by Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox rioters
Outgoing PM Lapid, PM-designate Netanyahu, urge authorities to harshly punish perpetrators, as passerby, a mother of 10, hit by burning trash bin and hospitalized
By ToI Staff
The scene of a riot in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim on December 14, 2022. (Israel Police)
December 15, 2022, 4:33 am
Mea Shearim residents riot after police arrest suspect in torching of cellphone shop
Dozens in Jerusalem ultra-Orthodox neighborhood vandalize vehicles, block roads and set fire to trash cans; cops dispatched to evacuate bus driver who made wrong turn into enclave
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews enjoy eating chulent, a traditional Jewish stew, at Yoel's restaurant in Meah Shearim, Jerusalem. Many of the restaurants in Meah Shearim open late on Thursday nights to serve chulent. December 24, 2015.(Nati Shohat/Flash90)
January 18, 2022, 2:43 am
On the cholent-and-kugel trail with tours of the Haredi ’tisch’
Jerusalem tour guides offer glimpses of the ultra-Orthodox world, with tables full of traditional Sabbath fare
By Jessica Steinberg
Police officers during a raid in the ultra orthodox Jewish neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Jerusalem, April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
December 20, 2021, 6:55 pm
Father arrested after 5-year-old found walking alone in Jerusalem cold
Boy turned over to grandmother after spotted by social worker in Mea Shearim; group, including father, scuffles with police to keep child from being taken
By ToI Staff
Police and Jerusalem city workers take apart a sukkah in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood that was deemed a safety hazzard, September 19, 2021. (Israel Police)
September 19, 2021, 8:29 am
Amid scuffles with police, hazardous sukkah taken down in Jerusalem
Cops assist municipal authorities in taking apart structure balanced high atop scaffolding in ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood
By ToI Staff
Police outside a precarious-looking sukkah in Jerusalem slated for demolition, on September 12, 2021. (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
September 14, 2021, 10:58 pm
Jerusalem police clash with ultra-Orthodox locals defending hazardous sukkah
Cops leave after meeting resistance and securing agreement for community members to take down holiday hut sitting atop scaffolding
By ToI Staff
Police officers during a raid in the ultra orthodox Jewish neighobrhood of Meah Shearim, Jerusalem, April 20, 2021. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 20, 2021, 4:13 pm
Ultra-Orthodox mob locks cops in building; then suspect flees dressed as woman
3 officers hurt in Mea Shearim as arrest raid — targeting suspects in series of Jerusalem protests — turns violent
By Stuart Winer
Police at the scene where a man was injured after being hit by a car in the ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem on February 28, 2021 (Noam Revkin Fenton/Flash90)
March 21, 2021, 6:26 pm
Manslaughter charge for teen in attack on Arab driver who then fatally hit man
Indictment alleges suspect was part of a group who assaulted Arab drivers in ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood on Purim
By ToI Staff
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