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Haredim Continue to Scream up a Storm

31-Aug-09

Well, several weeks have went by, and the Harta parking lot is still open. Now the Haredim are really pissed off, and they’ve decided to, in the words of Emeril Lagasse, kick it up a notch. In the last two days of protests, a Haredi man was run over by a car after he literally [...]

Filed in Daily Israeli, In the news, WTF | Also tagged Dr. Hadas Hanani, Haredim, Hareidi Law, Harta Parking Lot, Jerusalem, Meah Shearim, Nir Barkat, Police, Riots | Comments (1) »

Haredim Clash with Police in Jerusalem

11-Jun-09

In what appears to be the worst outburst of ultra-orthodox Jewish violence in Jerusalem in nearly two years, thousands of the city’s Haredim community took to the streets on Saturday to clash with police over the opening of a parking lot by the city municipality to give visitors a place to park their cars while [...]

Filed in Daily Israeli | Also tagged Haredim, Jerusalem, Meah Shearim, Nir Barkat, Police, Shabbat, Ultra Orthodox, Violence | Comments (0) »

Yosef “Tommy” Lapid dies at 77

01-Jun-08

Former Minister of Justice, Yosef “Tommy” Lapid died this morning from cancer in Tel-Aviv. Lapid was a life-long journalist and publicist. He was a central figure in Israeli media, as is his son, Yair Lapid. In 1999, Tommy Lapid became chairman of Shinui, a political party which acted under the banner of secularism and the [...]