Israelis living in the Jerusalem suburbs demonstrated against a plan to annex their communities to the capital. Motorists disrupted traffic, while other protesters set fire to tires. The annexation plan is favored by some Israeli officials, who see it as a way of increasing the number of secular Jews on Jerusalem’s population registry, thereby offsetting the rapid increase in the number of fervently Orthodox Jews living there.
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