- Title: JERUSALEM: ISRAELI POLICE CLASH WITH ULTRA-ORTHODOX JEWS
- Date: 19th April 1997
- Summary: JERUSALEM (APRIL 19, 1997) (RTV - ACCESS ALL) 1. GV STREET WITH ORTHODOX JEWS DEMONSTRATING 0.05 2. SCU ULTRA ORTHODOX JEW SHOUTING "SABBATH" 0.07 3. SV POLICEMEN PUSHING DEMONSTRATORS OFF ROAD/ DEMONSTRATORS CALLING POLICEMEN "NAZIS" 0.17 4. LV CARS ON ROAD 0.30 5. SLV OLD MAN SHOUTING 0.34 6. SV POLICEMEN PUSHIN
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- Location: JERUSALEM
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- Country: Israel
- Reuters ID: LVA8RMVGCFO302DFSZC1A032LNUG
- Story Text: INTRO: Two Israeli policemen have been injured in clashes with ultra-Orthodox Jews trying to close a Jerusalem street that Israel's High Court said should remain open to traffic on the sabbath.
Police held back hundreds of religious Jews in traditional black garb who tried to block traffic on Bar Ilan street, a main Jerusalem thoroughfare, on Saturday (April 19).
"Two policemen were injured and seven people have been arrested so far, some of them for stone throwing," a police spokesman said.
A court ruling earlier in the week ended an unofficial eight-month truce along Bar-Ilan street and drew threats from members of the ultra-Orthodox community to renew weekly Saturday protests against the road being open.
In preparation for trouble, police had increased their presence on the street for the first Saturday following the court decision.
The ruling cancelled last year's decision by Transportation Minister Yitzhak Levy, an Orthodox Jew, to close Bar-Ilan street during prayer times on the sabbath and Jewish holidays.
Ultra-Orthodox Jews had suspended their protests pending the court's decision on left-wing appeals against Levy's edict.
Jewish ritual law forbids the operation of machinery, including automobiles, on the sabbath which runs from Friday night to Saturday night.
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