Ten orthodox Jews, all members of the Sabbath Observance Organization, were sentenced today by the British court in Tel Aviv to pay $40 each or serve two to three months in prison, for their part in the religious disturbances Saturday before last on the streets of Tel Aviv, in which ten persons were injured.
The orthodox Jews sentenced were charged with using violence and disturbing public order. They attacked non-religious Jews in Tel Aviv, when the latter kept their stores open on the Sabbath.
The fight for observance of the Sabbath in the all-Jewish city of Tel Aviv has long been a matter of conflict between religious and non-religious Jews, since the Sabbath Observance Organization insists on the complete observance of the Sabbath in Tel Aviv by the entire population.
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