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Ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters set fire to construction materials during a protest against work on the Jerusalem Light Rail in the Bar-Ilan area of Jerusalem, June 8, 2026 (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)
July 9, 2026, 8:25 pm
Rioting by Haredi extremists has caused NIS 600 million damage to Jerusalem light rail work
Transport Ministry says ultra-Orthodox groups’ vandalism of infrastructure and equipment at the construction site in the Bar-Ilan area has set light rail expansion back 2 years
By Sharon Wrobel
In this image taken from video police arrest activists as they broke up a pro-Palestinian, anti-Israel demonstration camp at the University of Amsterdam in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, May 7, 2024. (AP Photo)
March 25, 2025, 9:56 pm
‘Ashamed’ Amsterdam alumni to return diplomas after school cuts ties with Hebrew U.
Graduates, including a former Dutch Supreme Court justice and a former foreign minister, accuse UvA of capitulating to violent anti-Israel activists who occupied campuses last year
By Bart Schut
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces during a demonstration against the Israeli outpost of Evyatar in the village of Beita in the West Bank, on August 6, 2021. (JAAFAR ASHTIYEH/AFP)
August 6, 2021, 6:35 pm
Palestinian said killed by IDF live fire during clashes near illegal outpost
Emad Dweikat, 37, reported shot during a protest against flashpoint Evyatar outpost near Nablus; despite gov’t-backed deal for settlers to leave site, area continues to seethe
By Aaron Boxerman
Dr. Vivian Fischer offered medical care in Minneapolis during protests following the death of George Floyd in police custody there, May 30, 2020. (Courtesy Fischer/ via JTA)
June 1, 2020, 1:49 pm
Minneapolis Jews tend wounds, distribute supplies, caring for a city in turmoil
Jewish community members give food and medical aid, board up storefronts even as rabbis urged to remove Torah scrolls in fear of attacks on synagogues
By Debra Nussbaum Cohen
US President Donald Trump speaks in the Oval Office on May 28, 2020 in Washington, DC (Doug Mills-Pool/Getty Images/AFP)
May 29, 2020, 10:43 am
Trump says violent protesters in Minneapolis ‘thugs,’ mayor a ‘weak leftist’
President warns that ‘when the looting starts, the shooting starts,’ leading Twitter to once again flag his tweet
By AP and ToI Staff
Roberta Kaplan of Integrity First for America speaks at the Fortune Most Powerful Women Summit in Laguna Niguel, California, October 2, 2018. (Phillip Faraone/Getty Images for Fortune/via JTA)
July 4, 2019, 3:10 am
Jewish lawyer wants to break the back of the violent white nationalist movement
Roberta Kaplan seeks to deprive supremacist groups of free speech protections by proving incitement to violence, and deter them with massive financial penalties in a civil suit
By Ron Kampeas
Ethiopian-Israelis protest in Tel Aviv's Rabin Square against police violence toward their community, January 30, 2019. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
January 30, 2019, 11:03 pm
Clashes as thousands of Ethiopian-Israelis rally against police brutality
Demonstration by community and its supporters follows deadly shooting by police of Yehuda Biadga, 24, in Bat Yam; after riot, 6 officers injured, 11 arrested
By Luke Tress and ToI Staff
Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas shown recovering in a hospital on May 22, 2018, reading a newspaper. (Wafa news agency)
May 22, 2018, 4:25 pm
From hospital, Abbas shown reading newspaper with anti-Israel cartoon
Palestinian Authority president remains hospitalized for third day, no timeframe given for his discharge
By ToI Staff and Agencies
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
Demonstrators are doused with water cannon by police during riots on July 8, 2017 in Hamburg, northern Germany, after the leaders of the world's top economies gathered for a G20 summit. (AFP / Christof STACHE)
July 9, 2017, 8:05 am
Fresh clashes erupt as world leaders wrap up G20 summit
Protesters set cars on fire, face off with police for third straight day, hours after peaceful demonstration against top-level Hamburg gathering
By Agencies
A Palestinian man throws stones at Israeli security forces during clashes in the West Bank city of Qalandiya, north of Jerusalem, on May 22, 2017. (Abbas Momani/AFP)
May 22, 2017, 6:55 pm
Palestinian protesters clash with Israeli forces across West Bank
Dozens of rioters said injured by Israeli rubber bullets, tear gas during violent protests in support of hunger-striking security prisoners
By Judah Ari Gross, Dov Lieber, AFP and ToI Staff
Illustrative: Runners take part in a marathon in Israel's coastal city of Tel Aviv on February 24, 2017. (Miriam Alster/Flash 90)
March 16, 2017, 11:23 pm
Ultra-Orthodox threaten to disrupt Jerusalem Marathon
Protests part of a series of demonstrations in support of draft-dodging yeshiva students
By Sue Surkes
Opposition leader Isaac Herzog (Zionist Union) at the Labor Party conference in Tel Aviv, December 11, 2016. (Tomer Neuberg/Flash90)
December 17, 2016, 6:08 pm
Herzog to Amona residents: Zionism is not a land grab
Opposition leader joins calls for outpost inhabitants to refrain from attacking security forces during evacuation
By Tamar Pileggi
Police officers clash with ultra-Orthodox men during a protest against the jailing of Jewish seminary students who failed to comply with a recruitment order, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on February 8, 2015. (photo credit: Yonatan Sindel/Flash90)
April 2, 2015, 3:17 am
2 Jerusalem police wounded by ultra-Orthodox rioters
Officers lightly injured from rocks thrown by demonstrators protesting IDF enlistment
By ToI Staff
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