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Last update - 20:05 04/07/2009
Police clash with Haredi protesters in Jerusalem
By Jonathan Lis and Nir Hasson, Haaretz Correspondents
Tags: Israel news, Jerusalem 

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox demonstrators tried to break into a parking lot near Jerusalem's Old City on Saturday while yelling "Shabbat, Shabbat," as police forces confronted them trying to prevent their entry.

For the second Saturday in a row, the demonstrators came out in droves to protest the city's decision to operate the parking lot on the Sabbath, but this week eyewitnesses reported less violence, and no one was arrested.

Sources said, however, that demonstrators were hurling rocks at passing vehicles on the nearby highway 9 in Jerusalem.
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Last Saturday, 28 demonstrators were arrested and six people were wounded during the riots that took place in Jerusalem amid the parking lot debate.

The violent riots began a month ago, after the municipality passed a resolution to open the Safra parking lot in the city center on the Sabbath. Hoping to appease the protesters, Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat decided to open the nearby Carta lot instead, as it is located further from the ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods than the Safra lot. But the controversy has not subsided.

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      1.   This Is Nothing... 21:02  |  Yosemite 04/07/09
      2.   Throwing rocks 21:09  |  ILias 04/07/09
      3.   observation 21:43  |  potobac 04/07/09
      4.   Ilias 21:46  |  eva 04/07/09
      5.   Sounds like hard work 21:48  |  Duncan 04/07/09
      6.   Good ! They are right. 21:52  |  Jew 04/07/09
      7.   Parking in Jerusalem is tough on a good day. 22:21  |  Michael 04/07/09
      8.   Did they use live ammo like they do against Arab protestors? 22:23  |  peacelover 04/07/09
      9.   Isn`t protesting a form of work? 22:30  |  Mark Lincoln 04/07/09
      10.   It`s O.K. Yosemite, : ) God said... 22:33  |  Maureen Ann 04/07/09
      11.   If they do not like it...let them stay in Shul 23:16  |  Arnold 04/07/09
      12.   Haredi hooligans 23:29  |  Paul 04/07/09
      13.   This is what they are doing on Shabbat? 00:02  |  Nechama 05/07/09
      14.   Deport the anti-zionist Haredi 00:15  |  Mark Jeffery Koch 05/07/09
      15.   Calm Down 00:23  |  Jacob 05/07/09
      16.   Respect the law 00:51  |  Naser Abul Haj 05/07/09
      17.   It is okay to shoot a fellow Israeli but not a fellow Jew 00:56  |  Labhras 05/07/09
      18.   Isn`t throwing rocks at vehicles 01:02  |  Axel 05/07/09
      19.   Maureen Ann 01:32  |  Yosemite 05/07/09
      20.   I agree with other posters 01:35  |  dB 05/07/09
      21.   I`m Jewish yet I still don`t know why the Haredi wear those hats 01:41  |  Steve Randolph 05/07/09
      22.   Respect other beliefs 01:57  |  Manuel 05/07/09
      23.   Rioting idiots 02:14  |  Fossil 05/07/09
      24.   police clash with Charedim 02:25  |  Tony 05/07/09
      25.   They would have yelled "Shabbes!," not "Shabbat" 02:56  |  Mirqa 05/07/09
      26.   Jerusalem and Tel Aviv could be in differant countries 03:01  |  Mark Leaman 05/07/09
      27.   Jerusalem and Tel Aviv could be in differant countries 03:01  |  Mark Leaman 05/07/09
      28.   The nuts are out again tonight 03:04  |  WHG 05/07/09
      29.   Working hard on Shabbat 03:54  |  Jasper 05/07/09
      30.   That is Strange, the IDF shoots Palestinian for throwing rocks 06:00  |  Johan Odin 05/07/09
      31.   Headline implies huge clashes 06:15  |  MH 05/07/09
      32.   Treat Them the Same 06:26  |  Steve Grumman 05/07/09
      33.   Violence in the name of religion 07:08  |  Natallie Durson 05/07/09
      34.   #6 Jew ever heard of freedom and democracy 08:06  |  SJ 05/07/09
      35.   Real Journalism 08:30  |  Yaacov Haber 05/07/09
      36.   mark leaman 27 06:48  |  potobac 06/07/09
      37.   I am disgusted by the violence 20:50  |  Y Friedman 06/07/09
      38.   Spit landing on ABC reporter 03:16  |  Mikko 07/07/09
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