Serious clashes took place here yesterday at an improvised road-block between Israeli military police and members of Nturei Kartha, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish group, in which three soldiers and several civilians were injured.
The ultra-Orthodox group set up the road-block to prevent the soldiers from bringing food on Shavuoth to their colleagues a few yards distant at their posts of duty. When the military police began to remove the block, the Nturei Kartha band threw stones and bottles at them. Reinforcements came up and helped the MP’s disperse the attackers, several of whom were beaten.
Shavuoth, along with the Sabbath, was celebrated in cities, towns and collective settlements throughout Israel with singing, dancing and celebrations, in which children played a major part. Thousands made a pilgrimage to Jerusalem. School and kindergarten children, dressed in white and crowned with garlands of flowers, marched on masse bringing the traditional first fruits of the land–grain, vegetables, fruit, doves, calves and fowl–to the buildings here of the Jewish National Fund. Fully 10,000 children participated in observance of Shavuoth in Tel Aviv alone.
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