Haredim Riot In Jerusalem, Bnei Brak: "We'll Fill Up The Prisons"

After two days of calm, riots resume. Hundreds of haredim from Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on Wednesday clashed with police and blocked roads, while chanting "We'll fill up prisons."

Haredim riot in Bnei Brak, J'lem: We'll fill up prisons

Hundreds block roads in capital, hurl stones, set bins on fire. In Bnei Brak, some 200 youths protest removal of ancient graves in Jaffa

Shmulik Grossman • Ynet

After two days of calm – riots resume in the capital. Hundreds of haredim from Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighborhood on Wednesday clashed with police and blocked roads, while chanting "We'll fill up prisons."

The protestors blocked Shivtei Israel Street and attempted to block another road, but were pushed back by the police. Protestors also hurled stones at police officers and set garbage bins on fire.

Meanwhile, riots also continued in Bnei Brak, where some 200 haredim clashed with police and blocked traffic on Hashomer Street. Police has yet to make arrests.
 
Rioting at both locations come in response to construction work at Jaffa's Andromeda complex, where ancient Jewish tombstones are located.

Rioting has centered in Bnei Brak in the past two days, and was mainly carried out by Shababnikim – young haredi youths that are considered "outsiders."

In Jerusalem, on the other hand, there were two days of relative calm after Monday's incident in which Interior Minister Eli Yishai was stoned while one his way to offer condolences. The perpetrators were affiliated with an extremist faction called the “Sikrikim” belonging to Neturei Karta.

Yoav Zitun contributed to this report.

Comments

[Shlomo]

Whats going to happen when it gets really hot in August

[A. Nuran]

They'll fill the jails. Downside?
Put the rioters in jail.
Put the ringleaders in prison with their brethren, the Arab terrorists.
The ones you catch committing arson against occupied buildings or setting wildfires outdoors, just kill.

[Abracadabra]

Baruch Hashem there are still garbage bins to burn and stones left to be thrown!

How else could they protest the awful plight of the pagan bones?

[effie]

Build more jails.

[jay]

Start prison industries and farms. At least they'll finally pay for their own keep.

[R]

ship them off to Iran or some other desert...a bit like Britain used to do with their criminals...

[harold]

set garbage bins on fire.

Again with the garbage bins. They should get rid of then and replace them with 30gal cans like we have here. People should be responsible for them and they, not the state, should be responsible with replacing them.

[Yochanan Lavie]

Anarchy Israel
Apologies to the Sex Pistols:

Right! NOW! oy, oy, oy, oy, oy

I am an anti-Zionist
I am an anarchist
Don't know what I want but
I won't work for it
I wanna destroy the garbage bins by 'cos I
I wanna BE frum anarchy!
No yeshiva rebbe!

Anarchy for Israel it's coming sometime, oy vey
My wife has babies, I collect the gravy
Your future dream is a schlepping scheme
'cos I, I wanna BE frum anarchy!
In the holy city

How many ways to schnorr what you want
I use the Knesset I use the rest
I use the enemy
I use anarchy 'cos I
I wanna BE frum anarchy!
THE chareidi WAY TO BE!

Is this the P.L.O.
Or is this the U.J.A
Or is this the HAMAS
I thought it was the N.K. or just
another hate fringe
another hate-filled binge

I wanna protect pagan bones
and I wanna be frum anarchy
Nu, what I mean
And I wanna be frum anarchist!
Get broygez, DESTROY !

[Adam Neira]

Will the various leaders of all the Jewish sects accept the wisdom of a higher authority in the coming weeks and months in Jerusalem ?

Time will tell...

[Hometown Postville]

As I've suggested many times before.... ship them all off to a deserted island and let them play war games between themselves. Everything should be all natural there so they'll be able to live kosher without interference from the rest of the world.

[Radical Feminist]

Maybe if they had jobs they'd have less time for this kind of crap.

[rabbidw]

For the first time I agree with the Hareidim. They SHOULD fill up the prisons. They should stay there for years and years. Economically, it will benefit the state as it would cost less to support them in prison than in their homes, and while they are in prison, they cannot breed another generation of parasites. Send them directly to jail.