Ahead of Israel vote, desert town becomes frontline against ultra-Orthodox expansion
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Ahead of Israel vote, desert town becomes frontline against ultra-Orthodox expansion
The drivers were guilty of violating the Sabbath, the Jewish day of rest. The boys also insulted the women in the group, including Cohen's wife. "That's where I started to lose my temper," Cohen told AFP. "It touched me personally." The incident pushed Cohen to join a growing protest movement of secular residents, who say the expanding ultra-Orthodox population is reshaping the character of their hometown. "It's no longer the same city I grew up…
In this city of 30,000 inhabitants at the gates of the Negev desert, lay residents see their daily lives transformed as a result of the expansion... Read article In Arad, lay and ultra-Orthodox disputes over Israel's future appeared first on the Singulier.
"It was that day that I began to get angry," he told the AFP, "personally touched." This episode prompted him to join a protest movement of the lay inhabitants, who believe that the expansion of the population...
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Arad, 13 Oct. (askanews) - For years lay and ultra-orthodox residents of the city of Arad, in the southern district of Israel, have waged a battle for the control of the city. Tension has increased in view of the next parliamentary elections on October 27. The clash between the two communities is the mirror of what [...]
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