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Yisrael Beytenu leader Avigdor Liberman in Tel Aviv, July 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
August 22, 2019, 8:48 pm
Liberman reaches out to LGBTQ community after homophobic comments surface
Video of 2013 meeting with hardline Jerusalem Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach sees the Yisrael Beytenu leader seemingly agreeing to help stop gay pride marches in the capital
By ToI Staff
Avigdor Liberman meets with hardline Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach in Jerusalem in 2013. (Channel 12 screenshot)
August 21, 2019, 11:09 am
Liberman’s liberal credentials questioned over video with fundamentalist rabbi
Yisrael Beytenu chief accused of homophobia after TV airs 2013 clip of meeting with the late Shmuel Auerbach, in which the MK spoke out against gay pride parades
By ToI Staff
Ultra orthodox Jewish men protest against the army draft, at the entrance to Jerusalem on March 8, 2018. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
March 8, 2018, 5:56 pm
Ultra-Orthodox draft protesters block entrance to Jerusalem for three hours
Hundreds demonstrate, causing major traffic jams, in first show of strength since death of leader Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox men carry the body of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach during his funeral in Jerusalem, Sunday, February 25, 2018. (AP Photo/Ariel Schalit)
February 26, 2018, 4:30 am
Tens of thousands attend Jerusalem funeral of influential anti-draft rabbi
Shmuel Auerbach, whose supporters regularly clash with police over opposition to IDF registration, passes away at age 86
By AP
Ultra-Orthodox followers of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach mourn during his funeral in Jerusalem, on February 25, 2018. Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 25, 2018, 3:45 pm
Tens of thousands throng Jerusalem streets for radical rabbi’s funeral
Members of Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach’s anti-conscription ‘Jerusalem Faction’ use eulogies to call on ultra-Orthodox to shun army offices
By Michael Bachner
Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach speaks with his students in Ramat Beit Shemesh on June 2, 2016. (Yaakov Lederman/Flash90)
February 25, 2018, 11:04 am
Jerusalem braces for traffic disruptions as venerated extremist rabbi buried
Major routes in capital to be blocked as tens of thousands expected to gather to bid farewell to Shmuel Auerbach, head of radical, anti-conscription ‘Jerusalem Faction’
By ToI Staff
Rabbi Shmuel Auerbach speaks during a rally in Jerusalem against the draft of the ultra-Orthodox community on March 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
February 24, 2018, 7:48 pm
Shmuel Auerbach, leader of anti-draft ultra-Orthodox group, dies aged 86
Head of the radical ‘Jerusalem Faction,’ at forefront of often violent protests against conscription, suffers fatal heart attack
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews clash with police during a protest against the enlistment of members of their community to the IDF, next to the army recruiting office in Jerusalem, on November 28, 2017. (Flash90)
November 28, 2017, 11:11 pm
After riots, IDF denies arresting female ultra-Orthodox draft dodger
Army says no truth to ‘erroneous’ rumor, condemns use of violence by Jerusalem demonstrators against police officers
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men clash with police during a protest against the arrest of a religious seminary student who failed to comply with a recruitment order, next to the army draft office in Jerusalem, November 28, 2017. (Flash90)
November 28, 2017, 5:49 pm
34 arrested at ultra-Orthodox riot against army draft in Jerusalem
Protesters block road outside IDF recruitment office, throw rocks, eggs at police officers trying to disperse them, injuring 3
By ToI Staff
Extremist ultra-Orthodox demonstrators, protesting against the army draft, block the entrance to Jerusalem on November 26, 2017. (Flash90)
November 26, 2017, 4:59 pm
Fury as ultra-Orthodox demonstrators block Jerusalem entrance for 3 hours
At least 35 arrested as entrance to city snarled by hundreds of extremists, light rail suspended from bus station to Old City, in fresh protests at arrests of draft dodgers
By ToI Staff
Police carry away ultra-Orthodox Jewish demonstrators as they disperse a protest against army conscription in the city of Bnei Brak, November 20, 2017. (AFP/Ahmad Gharabli)
November 26, 2017, 11:51 am
Fringe ultra-Orthodox sect plans fresh anti-army protests in Jerusalem
Demonstration slated to take place near Central Bus Station could bring bus routes, light rail to a standstill
By ToI Staff
Benjy Singer
October 20, 2017, 2:17 pm
Benjy Singer
We need to meet the Haredim halfway
6 counterpoints to the sad, disgusting, and frankly embarrassing Haredi ‘Day of Rage’
Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against Israeli army conscription, in Jerusalem, on March 28, 2017. (AFP PHOTO / MENAHEM KAHANA)
April 18, 2017, 9:42 am
28 ultra-Orthodox journalists arrested on suspicion of extortion
Police nab senior staff and editors of Hapeles newspaper for alleged harassment of potential advertisers
By ToI Staff
Ultra-Orthodox Jews protest against Israeli army conscription, in Jerusalem, on March 28, 2017. (AFP/Menahem Kahana)
April 13, 2017, 9:37 pm
13 ultra-Orthodox protesters arrested after blocking major highway
Route 4 reopened after police intervene in rally outside Hadarim Prison
By ToI Staff
Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews, protesting the arrest of ultra-Orthodox draft dodgers, hold a rally against army recruitment in Jerusalem, March 28, 2017. (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 3, 2017, 2:55 am
Yeshiva student whose arrest sparked protests gets 56 days in military jail
Yisrael Meir Toledano’s detention, after he failed to report to IDF office, set off violent demonstrations in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh
By ToI Staff
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