Mordechai Brener
Israel
MIDDLE EAST
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Tens of thousands of Orthodox Jews gathered near the Jerusalem branch of the IDF recruitment office, to protest a government plan to forcefully draft observant Jews. Minor clashes occured when youth threw water bottles and garbage cans at police.
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A rare occasion in the Israeli capital as a snow storm halts traffic and brought the local economy to a stand. Light snow is expected to continue to fall in Jerusalem and northern Israel until the afternoon.
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A demonstration held by Jewish nationalists protesting the grant of observer status to the Palestinian delegation in the UN, were dispersed by police in the center of Jerusalem. Several were arrested after an attempt to burn a flag of the PLO.
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Prior to the holiday of Yom Kippor (Day of Atonement), hundreds of thousands of observant Jews perform a ceremony in which a rooster (for men) or a hen (for women) is ritually slaughtered.
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Citing a wave of rapes, murders and robberies allegedly committed by illegal migrants from Africa, thousands rally for the deportation of the migrants. The protest quickly deteriorated to clashes and vandalism.
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Israeli socialists have gathered a thousand strong Labor Day parade at the center of Tel Aviv, culminating in a rally at Rabin square. Several clashes have taken place with anti-communist activists who demonstrated in front of the rally.
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Dozens of Jews assemble in Kiryat Arba near the grave of Dr. Baruch Goldstein, a doctor who killed 29 Palestinian Muslims in the Cave of the Patriarchs on the eve of Purim of 1994, and was subsequently murdered by the Palestinians.
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Hundreds attended a memorial of Rabbi Meir Kahane, founder of the Jewish Defence League in the United States and of the right wing Kach movement in Israel. Kahane was assassinated by an Islamic extremist in NY. Jerusalem, Israel. 15th November 2011
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