JERUSALEM (VINnews) — Bar Ilan street in Jerusalem was once again the scene of violent demonstrations Sunday evening, with two people injured. The current protest however was not over the light rail due to pass through the street within the coming years but rather over the arrest of two people suspected of damaging Optika Halperin, a store which opened on Kikar Hashabat and used females in its ads.
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Hundreds of protesters gathered at the Bar Ilan street intersection and demonstrated for hours over the arrests. Police used a number of methods to disperse the protesters, including water cannon and mounted police. One of the mounted police ran over a protester, who required medical treatment in hospital. Another demonstrator was allegedly hit in the face by police and his glasses broke, causing him facial wounds which required medical intervention.
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At the same time as the protest, an assembly took place at Satmar Beis Midrash on nearby Yoel Street. The assembly was attended by hundreds of extremist elements who were protesting the arrest and remand in custody of suspects in the torching of a cellphone store as well as the damaging of the Optika Halperin store. (which is owned by the chareidi Halperin family, the children of Rabbi Refael Halperin)
Protesters riding on a truck presented a number of exhibits, including a baby cot decorated with the words “Daddy, when will you see her?”, since one of the detainees, Yehoshua Dadon, had a baby girl last week but has yet to see her. Additionally they staged a table with Chanukah candles to show that the detainees had not been able to return home and light Chanukah candles.
Chareidi extremists protest arrests of arson suspect and Optika Halperin suspects (Photo: Chaim Goldberg)
Some of the protesters themselves were wearing orange prison clothes to identify with those being held in custody. Children on the truck were holding signs stating”you forgot that only in Russia the government is a dictatorship.”
On Monday the Jerusalem Magistrates Court will hold a further hearing on the detainees.
Police reported that “a protest took place in central Jerusalem including disturbances. Hundreds of rioters blocked Bar Ilan street in two places causing traffic delays. Some protesters threw stones at police forces. Police officers ordered the protesters to disperse and when they did not comply with police orders, acted to remove the protesters and rioters. Police will continue to enable the right to protest but will not allow public disturbances or harming people’s right of way.”
It’s great that the Protesters all Wore Prison Garb To Identify With Detainees, that will speed up all their bookings into jail.
Was the almost-murder of a woman by one of their young teens not a big enough lesson for them!?
Next time don’t burn a store and one won’t get arrested. It’s really pretty simple.
silly me, for a moment i thought they were protesting the critical injury of a Heredi woman from last week’s riots
of course they don’t have time for that, but they have all the time in the world to protest an optics store with woman ads.
and I thought Avire D’eretz Yisroel Machkim….
Don’t waste taxpayers money by putting these people in jail. Cut off all their entitlements, and the stipends their families are getting, and most importantly, the stipends to the רבנים and their institutions, that instigate and encourage this disgusting behavior. Cut off the funding and they’ll get the message.
How nice it would be if these chevra went and got a real job. The problem is the Israeli gov’t keeps giving them hand outs so they don’t have to work. They have to do something during the day to keep them occupied. Sports they don’t do, Movies they don’t go to, volunteer in a hospital C’V, so why do you blae them if this is their occupation.
When will the rest of Israel wake up. – It is only going to get worse as time moves on.
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I wonder where brainless Archy is? Where is his support of these Shkutzim?
The so called charidim are right the should burn ALL the stores that use women in their ads fooy! Tumeh they shouldn’t allow women to buy anything’s in any store
Wouldn’t it be more productive to have discussions with store management about taking down offensive ads, followed by a boycott of store if need be? They opened a store to make money, not offend community. What a terrible chinuch !
To the clever fellows who reccomend cutting off their “entitlements” should realize that the govt. would then have to cut them for rampaging Arabs who commit acts of terrorism. And all the leftist lawyers would be howling against that …. it’ll never happen.
None of is to justify the vandalism of some Chareidim, who, I’m fairly sure owe a lot of money to the owners of the optical shop.