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Ultra-Orthodox protesters block the street outside the IDF Recruitment Center at Tel Hashomer, April 28, 2025. (Avshalom Sassoni/Flash90)
April 28, 2025, 9:34 pm
‘Bring them to justice’: MKs demand legal action against anti-IDF Haredi protesters
Yisrael Beytenu’s Forer demands AG enforce law against inciting evasion. Finance Minister Smotrich calls on law enforcement to ‘seize the rioters and bring them to justice’
By Sam Sokol
Protesters march to the President's Residence in Jerusalem on April 2, 2024 (Photo by Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
April 3, 2024, 3:13 pm
Daily Briefing Apr. 3: Day 180 – Knesset protests, Haredi draft and maybe Israeli cocoa
Political correspondent Sam Sokol looks at anti-government protests, yeshivas and the army; reporter Sue Surkes discusses comptroller’s environment report and a possible new crop
By ToI Staff
Israel Police officer Meir Suissa, right, prepares a stun grenade moments before he hurled it into a crowd of demonstrators during a mass protest in Tel Aviv, March 1, 2023. (Video screenshot; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)
March 6, 2023, 12:51 am
Elderly ex-pilot questioned for posting pic of cop who threw stun grenade into crowd
Suspect accused of threatening police officer by putting photo on social media; university professor appears in court after arrest at demonstration in Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Screen capture from video as police use a water cannon to disperse protesters against enforcement of a national lockdown due to the coronavirus outbreak, in Jerusalem, January 20, 2021. (Kikar Shabbat)
January 18, 2023, 6:03 pm
Ben Gvir said to ban police from using water cannons against Haredi protesters
New directive comes after minister alleged a double standard regarding how left-wing protesters in Tel Aviv are treated versus ultra-Orthodox demonstrators in Jerusalem
By ToI Staff
Police guard while Haredi men protest against a cellular shop in Jerusalem's Geula neighborhood, on January 15, 2023 (Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
January 16, 2023, 2:01 am
Haredi protesters clash with police outside Jerusalem cellphone store
Demonstrators rage against sale of devices that can access the internet; Ben Gvir orders police to probe treatment of protesters
By ToI Staff
Activists lock arms in Tel Aviv to protest the government, January 7, 2023. (AP/Tsafrir Abayov)
January 10, 2023, 2:29 am
Ben Gvir tells police to start arresting anti-government protesters who block roads
Minister to reportedly roll out rules allowing cops to detain anyone demonstrating in road or holding ‘inciting’ posters, despite saying in 2021 that rallying in traffic is fine
By ToI Staff
A car hit by rocks in a suspected terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf, January 3, 2021. (Binyamin Regional Council)
January 3, 2021, 11:52 pm
IDF arrests suspects in rock attack that seriously injured Israeli woman
Israeli troops apprehend a number of people in West Bank village; manhunt and investigation continue
By ToI Staff
A car hit by rocks in a suspected terror attack near the West Bank settlement of Neve Tzuf, January 3, 2021. (Binyamin Regional Council)
January 3, 2021, 3:40 pm
Israeli woman seriously injured in West Bank rock attack
Victim, said to be wife of jailed Jewish terrorist Jack Tytell, taken to hospital with head injuries; 2 kids uninjured; IDF says soldiers pursuing suspects
By ToI Staff
Police use water cannonד on protesters during a rally over the death of Ahuvia Sandak in a car crash during a police chase, near the Police Internal Investigations Department in Jerusalem on January 2, 2021 (Olivier Fitoussi/Flash90)
January 2, 2021, 11:27 pm
7 cops hurt, police car overturned at violent protests over settler teen’s death
Report: Officers who took part in chase that led to death of Ahuvia Sandak cleared, but teens who were in the car with him will face charges, including negligent homicide
By ToI Staff
Illustrative: People walk past closed stores in the Borough Park section of Brooklyn, one of the five boroughs of New York City, on October 9, 2020. (Angela Weiss/AFP)
October 14, 2020, 7:48 pm
A guide to the diverse groups of Jews living in 20 NY virus hotspot ZIP codes
Public mask burnings in Borough Park draw media attention, but who is living in the other afflicted areas where residents are mostly compliant with health guidelines?
By Yaakov Schwartz
Ethiopian-Israeli protesters trash a sidewalk cafe on Ibn Gabriol Boulevard in Tel Aviv, January 30, 2019. (Luke Tress/Times of Israel)
January 31, 2019, 5:07 pm
Judge orders release of detainees held after Ethiopian-Israeli rally
Magistrate says offenses minor and in context of mostly peaceful demonstration against police brutality; authorities had asked to keep them in custody for six more days
By ToI Staff
Palestinians throw chairs and other objects from inside the Al-Aqsa Mosque on Jerusalem's Temple Mount, June 7, 2018. (Screenshot from police footage)
June 7, 2018, 2:51 pm
Palestinians hurl chairs, stones from Al-Aqsa Mosque, injuring tourist, cop
Two arrested after violent outbreak on Temple Mount; police searching for additional suspects in clashes
By Sue Surkes
Israeli snipers prepare for massive protests by Palestinians in Gaza and the potential for demonstrators to try to breach the security fence on March 30, 2018. (Israel Defense Forces)
April 30, 2018, 9:50 pm
Israel’s use of live fire in Gaza protests faces legal test
High Court begins hearing case as 6 human rights groups ask it to declare regulations as unlawful; defending its policies, state says it’s not facing civilian protests
By Agencies and ToI Staff
The Gaza 'Fence Cutters Unit' threatens on the Hamas-run Al-Aqsa TV to breach the Gaza border with Israel and reoccupy the Jewish state 'by force' in footage translated by the Memri TV monitoring project. (Screenshot)
April 30, 2018, 6:54 pm
Gaza ‘fence cutter unit’ vows to breach border, retake ‘occupied lands’
In broadcast on Hamas’s Al-Aqsa TV, masked man pledges: ‘What was taken by force will be regained by force alone’; IDF says it thwarted mass bid to breach border on Friday
By ToI Staff
A Palestinian man hurls stones at Israeli troops during a protest at the Gaza Strip's border with Israel, Friday, April 20, 2018. (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra)
April 20, 2018, 2:51 pm
Palestinians say four, including boy, 15, killed by IDF during Gaza protest
Some 3,000 gather at border clashing with IDF soldiers, sending burning kites over fence to try and set Israeli fields alight
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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