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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 424

Tel Aviv municipality

The Orthodox Jewish group Rosh Yehudi sets up a gender divider made of Israeli flags at a public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
October 9, 2024, 10:12 pm
Supreme Court orders Tel Aviv to allow public Yom Kippur prayers with gender partition
Justices criticize municipal authority for what they said was discrimination against Orthodox worshippers, express frustration at Tel Aviv’s refusal to compromise
By Jeremy Sharon
Israelis hold a gender-separated protest prayer event in Tel Aviv's Dizengoff Square, organized after the municipality rejected a request for gender-segregated prayers there during the upcoming Yom Kippur, in Tel Aviv, August 8, 2024. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
August 9, 2024, 8:00 am
Protest service held in Tel Aviv after city rejects gender-segregated public prayer
Hundreds join gender-separated Dizengoff Square event, organized after request for segregated public Yom Kippur service in the square was rejected by municipality as discriminatory
By Noam Lehmann and ToI Staff
A police officer at the Rehovot municipality, June 4, 2024. (Israel Police)
June 4, 2024, 2:50 pm
Police arrest officials in Rehovot, Ashkelon amid multi-city graft probe
Investigation started 2 weeks ago with arrest of 13 Tel Aviv city hall employees; police suspect they took bribes in return for help in securing sanitation contracts
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: Students take their mathematics matriculation examination in Tel Aviv, June 29, 2020. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
November 21, 2023, 5:20 pm
Schools in Tel Aviv permitted by municipality to fully reopen, but not all can
Many students in central Israel have not been in school full-time since September, before the Sukkot holiday
By Gavriel Fiske
Illustrative: Israeli high school students. (Moshe Shai/Flash90)
November 20, 2023, 9:56 pm
Schools in Tel Aviv permitted to fully re-open on Tuesday
Many students in central Israel have not been in school full-time since before the Sukkot holiday in September
By Gavriel Fiske
Head of Rosh Yehudi, Israel Zeira, bottom right, attends a hearing on Tel Aviv Simhat Torah celebrations at the Supreme Court in Jerusalem on October 6, 2023 (Chaim Goldbergl/Flash90)
October 6, 2023, 1:53 pm
At High Court, Tel Aviv officials acquiesce to Orthodox group holding Sukkot event
After judges criticize municipality’s conduct, sides agree on Saturday night Simhat Torah celebration in city center provided no physical barriers are erected to separate sexes
By ToI Staff
Israel Zeira (R), the head of Rosh Yehudi, arrives for an arbitration hearing at the Tel Aviv District Court in Tel Aviv, October 4, 2023. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
October 4, 2023, 4:30 pm
Court affirms Tel Aviv’s right to yank Orthodox group’s permits for Sukkot
Rosh Yehudi plans fresh Supreme Court petition following the ruling on the municipality’s decision to deny permission to hold events over holiday after Yom Kippur clashes
By Canaan Lidor
Israel Zeira, head of Rosh Yehudi, an Orthodox group, speaks with police officers during protests after the group set up a gender divider for a Yom Kippur public prayer event at Dizengoff Square, in Tel Aviv, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/ Flash90)
September 29, 2023, 4:56 pm
Judge rejects Orthodox group’s petition over canceled permits for its Sukkot events
Tel Aviv District Court judge urges Rosh Yehudi, municipality to come to agreement on planned gatherings in city, after Yom Kippur altercations; jurist cites ‘reasonableness law’
By ToI Staff
Shlomo Marmor at the flower shop on Yehuda Halevi Street in Tel Aviv that his family has owned for 70 years. September 2023. (Shoshanna Solomon / The Times of Israel)
September 28, 2023, 11:57 pm
Shops along route of Tel Aviv light rail still waiting for promised business boom
Stores on Yehuda Halevi Street were told a bonanza would come after 8 years of mere survival in a construction site; so far this has not materialized
By Shoshanna Solomon
Activists from the Rosh Yehudi organization set up a divider made of Israeli flags ahead of a public prayer event in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur eve, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash 90)
September 28, 2023, 9:38 pm
Tel Aviv yanks religious group’s permits for Sukkot events after Yom Kippur fracas
Municipality casts Rosh Yehudi’s use of physical gender barriers as ‘severe’ violation of permit conditions, says now-nixed plans could have caused another public disturbance
By Michael Horovitz
Secular and Orthodox Israelis at a contested public prayer service in Dizengoff Square, Tel Aviv, on Yom Kippur, September 24, 2023. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
September 25, 2023, 7:11 pm
Activists block public Tel Aviv Yom Kippur prayers as Orthodox group sets gender divider
Angry scenes at Dizengoff Square gatherings on Sunday, Monday after Rosh Yehudi group defies courts, puts up improvised flag barrier between men and women; similar tussles elsewhere
By ToI Staff
About 2,000 worshipers attend the Yom Kippur Neilah prayer at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, Israel on October 5, 2022. (Courtesy of the Municipality of Tel Aviv)
September 24, 2023, 11:54 am
Orthodox group says will hold Tel Aviv public prayer despite ban on gender divider
Though municipality and courts rejected request to segregate genders in public space, Rosh Yehudi reverses its declared intention to nix its two Yom Kippur events
By ToI Staff
Men and women sit together at an event held by Rosh Yehudi on Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on November 10, 2022. The event featured a mechitzah, or divide. (Courtesy of Rosh Yehudi)
September 23, 2023, 6:37 pm
Supreme Ct. rejects gender divider for Yom Kippur prayers at central Tel Aviv square
Judges side with lower court and municipality, say decision follows ‘prevailing public policy’ against gender segregation
By Michael Horovitz
A bird's-eye view of about 2,000 worshipers as they attend the Yom Kippur Ne'ilah prayer in Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv, on October 5, 2022. (Courtesy of Rosh Yehudi)
September 21, 2023, 3:17 pm
Annual Yom Kippur mass prayer tests the limits of Tel Aviv’s vaunted liberalism
City has prohibited the placing of a divider between men and women at popular street event that draws 2,000 Orthodox and secular participants; as things stand, it won’t go ahead
By Canaan Lidor
Screen capture from video of Barcelona Mayor Ada Colau, 2022. (YouTube. Used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
February 9, 2023, 4:27 pm
Barcelona mayor suspends twinning with Tel Aviv, claims Israel abusing human rights
Ada Colau says she’s responding to petition demanding she act against Israeli treatment of Palestinians; move may yet be shot down by city council
By AFP and ToI Staff
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