Twenty-eight persons, including 22 policemen, were wounded here yesterday in a clash between the police and 1,500 demonstrators, who were protesting against the fact that an industrial exhibition was open on Saturday.
The demonstrators, who included the Deputy Minister for Religious Affairs Zorach Warhaftig and the Deputy Speaker of the Knesset, Benjamin Mintz, held a mass prayer meeting outside the exhibition site here. The clash occurred when the demonstrators unsuccessfully attempted to break through the police cordon. The crowd dispersed at midday.
The demonstrators had gone ahead despite the publication of a notice by the exhibition authorities that no tickets would be sold on Saturday and no motors would be operated. The religious groups, contended, however, that the mere opening of the exhibition on Saturday was, in itself, a desecration of the Sabbath.
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