Published: 16 October 2020
Last updated: 4 March 2024
VIDEO: Violent clashes during Israeli police raid on wedding spark criticism from ultra-Orthodox leaders (Haaretz)
Video from incident, in violation of COVID lockdown orders, shows arrested man bleeding. Bride's sister says brother assaulted, while police say participants threw glass bottles and suspect injured by fall
Data shows police have fined very few ultra-Orthodox for mass prayer gatherings (Times of Israel)
Amid reports of large events and a lack of enforcement by police, only 171 fines issued for prayer violations across the country during lockdown – and only one in Jerusalem
Haredi health pioneer: Covid-19 defiance fuels anti-Semitism, sullies God’s name (Times of Israel)
Yehuda Meshi-Zahav says many ultra-Orthodox are fighting virus, but a worrying number refuse and won’t reconsider even as death toll rises and hatred of community spreads
Lives Lost: London rabbi worked to end community’s isolation (Ynet)
Rabbi Avrohom Pinter from Stamford Hill, Europe’s largest ultra-Orthodox community founded by Jews fleeing pogroms in Russia, went door-to-door to deliver public health warnings about Covid; within days he caught the virus himself and died
The government can’t save ultra-Orthodox Jews from Covid-19; religious leaders can (Foreign Policy)
The coronavirus has hit Haredi enclaves hard, but without clear directives from rabbis, isolated communities from Jerusalem to New York will continue to suffer
Religious affairs minister officiates wedding in violation of lockdown (Times of Israel)
Yaakov Avitan of Shas apologises for overseeing ceremony attended by dozens after Israeli TV publishes photo of him signing ketubah
Photo: Photos from the wedding in Givat Ze’ev (Israel Hayom)
