Segregated Yom Kippur prayers spark slurs and bitterness, not atonement, in Tel Aviv Angry tussles mar Judaism’s holiest day, as Orthodox and secular tensions hit a boiling point at court-barred ...

Ahead of Wednesday’s Supreme Court ruling permitting the group to hold Yom Kippur prayers complete with a barrier that separates men and women, activists who said they wanted to protect Tel Aviv ...

The specific trigger for the confrontations in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur, which ran from Sunday evening until Monday night, was a prayer ceremony in Dizengoff Square, a plaza that to many secular ...

Radical secular protesters clash with religious Jews in Tel Aviv on Yom Kippur, Sept. 24, 2023. Israel’s Supreme Court ruled unanimously on Wednesday night against a ban on gender-separated ...

The Supreme Court ordered the Tel Aviv Municipal Authority on Wednesday to allow the Rosh Yehudi Orthodox outreach organization to hold Yom Kippur prayers in the city’s Meir Park with gender ...

Whatever the High Court decides, there is concern that this Yom Kippur might feature a repeat of the infighting that characterized last year’s prayers in Tel Aviv. Last Yom Kippur, Dizengoff ...

Clashes ensue during an Orthodox Yom Kippur prayer service at Dizengoff Square in Tel Aviv on September 25, 2023. (Itai Ron/Flash90) ...

But the city later issued a statement saying it had not been planning to allow residents or tourists to rent bikes through Tel-O-Fun on Yom Kippur itself, and attacked Katz for “not checking the ...

Israeli Cabinet ministers slammed the Tel Aviv Municipality’s decision on August 6th to once again ban public Jewish prayer during the upcoming High Holiday season, which starts on the evening ...

Fletcher says the Middle East unrest has not been this heated since the Yom Kippur War, which started in 1973. IE 11 is not supported. For an optimal experience visit our site on another browser.

In Tel Aviv, Yom Kippur is the one day of the whole year that the public Tel-O-Fun bike-rental service does not operate. You can rent a cycle just before the holiday begins but you’ll have to keep the ...