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Haredi teargases woman for using 'men only' sidewalk
By Yair Ettinger and Liel Kyzer
Tags: Israel news, Mea She'arim 

An activist in Jerusalem's ultra-Orthodox Eda Haredit community was conditionally released from prison Monday, a day after his arrest for allegedly spraying an ultra-Orthodox woman with tear gas in the capital's Mea She'arim neighborhood.

Yoel Kraus was arrested after the woman filed a police complaint. The alleged attack occured about two weeks ago, during the Sukkot holiday, as the woman was walking on a "men only" sidewalk, and refused Kraus' demand that she move to the women's side.

The woman did not require medical attention.
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According to an agreement reached with the police, Kraus is to spend five days under house arrest at a location outside of Jerusalem and will not be allowed to return to the city for two weeks. He will then be prohibited from participating in public protests or public events for 30 days.

Although Kraus is not the Eda Haredit's official spokesman, he often grants interviews, leading the media to dub him the "operations officer of the Eda Haredit."

The alleged incident occured during the interim days of Sukkot, when the streets of Mea She'arim and adjacent Geula neighborhoods are packed with hundreds of thousands of visitors celebrating the Simchat Beit Hashoevah festival.

Because of the crowds, community leaders decided three years ago that to preserve the community's standard of modesty, men and women would walk on separate sides of the street. Parents were permitted to walk together with their children on one of the side streets.

A special pedestrian interchange was set up on the street to lead men and women to their separate sidewalks. The neighborhood leadership and the various Hassidic groups hired dozens of security guards to maintain the gender-specific arrangement. Kraus reportedly did not trust the guards, and set out to inspect the arrangement himself.
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  2.   Welcome to the Middle Ages 11:05  |  Rozanna 27/10/09
  3.   haredi 11:08  |  zoe 27/10/09
  4.   Rationale 11:15  |  Yossi 27/10/09
  5.   mad frummies 11:26  |  Stop this nonsense 27/10/09
  6.   Men Only Sidwalk 11:38  |  Daniel 27/10/09
  7.   `Men only" SIdewalk 12:35  |  Arlene Rubin 27/10/09
  8.   Tolerance?? 13:11  |  Jan Bresky 27/10/09
  9.   Tolerance?? 13:13  |  jan Bresky 27/10/09
  10.   Men only sidewalks---Jews only roads--hmmm 13:17  |  Labhras 27/10/09
  11.   send them to re-education centres 13:23  |  nadav 27/10/09
  12.   Teargas and Men Only Sidewalks? 13:45  |  Leah 27/10/09
  13.   Just another tourist trap 14:24  |  Jacek 27/10/09
  14.   Another "alleged" item that . . . 15:06  |  Zev Davis 27/10/09
  15.   Which side of the street do gays, bis & transgenders walk? 15:47  |  just wondering 27/10/09
  16.   Wake up Israel! 17:12  |  Maurice 27/10/09
  17.   Heredi rules? 19:17  |  Mexi 27/10/09
  18.   An arab kid would have been shot and Kraus walks 21:26  |  Avi 27/10/09
  19.   Teargas Wpman 22:44  |  Bill Berliner 27/10/09
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