Rabbi Uri Blau, leader of the Neturei Karta and nine other members of that ultra-Orthodox, anti-Zionist group were remanded in custody Tuesday for willful destruction of public property and disorderly conduct. Another ultra-Orthodox offender, Rabbi Haim
But the crackdown by law enforcement officials apparently has not ended the escalating war by the religious activists on what they consider “lewd” advertisements at bus stop shelters and on buses in Jerusalem and elsewhere. To date,
Three bus stops and a soldiers’ hitchhiking station were attacked in Jerusalem Monday night and four Orthodox activists were caught defacing signs outside Tel Aviv.
SWIMWEAR ADSTARGETED
Blau and his group were arrested Monday after they were caught by a Jerusalem taxi
Blau, whose Neturei Karta believes that the establishment of a Jewish State before the coming of the Messiah is blasphemous, was taken into custody without bail, as were two accomplices. Seven
(In New York Sunday night, some 5,000 members of the Satmar Hasidic sect demonstrated outside the Waldorf Astoria Hotel against Jerusalem Mayor Teddy Kollek who was addressing an Israel Bonds dinner at the hotel. They accused him of the illegal arrests of
Followers of Blau clashed with police outside one courthouse Tuesday. Disorder erupted at another court Monday when Gottlieb was sentenced to five months in jail — on top of a three month sentence he
Gottleib recited psalms during the proceedings. But his mother created disorder with a screaming defense of her son from the spectator benches. When Judge Miriam Burstyn ordered her removed from the court, border police had to be summoned to quell
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