Out of 17,000 synagogues that existed before the Holocaust, only 3,318 are known to have survived, with only a quarter of that number still functioning.
Israel’s Supreme Court overturned the prison sentences for many of the mothers who defied a court order to return their daughters to an integrated Ashkenazi-Sephardi school.
Tens of thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews gathered in Jerusalem to protest a Supreme Court order to integrate Ashkenazi and Sephardi girls in a West Bank school, after which dozens of haredi parents entered prison.