Mea Shearim – Hundreds of ultra-Orthdox Jews clashed with police in a conservative neighborhood of Jerusalem on Wednesday as tax officials tried to carry out inspections, a police spokesman told AFP.
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Micky Rosenfeld said several tax authority representatives entered the Mea Shearim neighbourhood on Wednesday morning to carry out “examinations, check-ups and closures” of several businesses.
“Disturbances developed involving representatives of the community. Stones and other objects were thrown at police officers,” he said.
“Four people have been arrested and police are still at the scene responding to the situation.”
Rosenfeld said 200-300 protesters were still clashing with around 40 police on the scene.
Israeli media reported that the protesters were from the Neturei Karta movement, an ultra-Orthodox group that fiercely rejects the authority of the Jewish state.
The reports said that the tax inspectors were seeking to close down an illegal slaughterhouse in the neighbourhood.
Deport the police back to Ukraine and Russia
In Russia they just beat up Jews, in Israel it is a career and they get paid for it!
No wonder they keep pouring in.
They need to start treating terrorists with peyos the way they treat terrorists with keffiyas. Treat thrown rocks like bullets. Respond with overwhelming force, arrest the terrorists and bulldoze their houses.