Israeli police clash with ultra-Orthodox protesters over school lockdown

&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpcnt">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"wpa">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<span class&equals;"wpa-about">Advertisements<&sol;span>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div class&equals;"u top&lowbar;amp">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<amp-ad width&equals;"300" height&equals;"265"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; type&equals;"pubmine"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-siteid&equals;"111265417"&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab; data-section&equals;"1">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;amp-ad>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;<&sol;div><p>Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators have clashed with police in two major Israeli cities&comma; as authorities faced new difficulties in enforcing coronavirus restrictions in the country’s religious communities&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The clashes occurred in Jerusalem and Ashdod as police attempted to close religious schools that had opened in violation of lockdown orders&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Throughout the pandemic&comma; many major ultra-Orthodox sects have flouted safety regulations&comma; continuing to open schools&comma; pray in synagogues and hold mass weddings in funerals&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>This has contributed to a disproportionate infection rate&comma; with the ultra-Orthodox community accounting for more than a third of Israel’s coronavirus cases&comma; despite making up just over 10&percnt; of the population&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In Jerusalem&comma; police fired tear gas and putrid-smelling water to disperse a crowd of hundreds of ultra-Orthodox residents outside a reopened school&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Demonstrators cried &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;get out of here&comma; Nazis” at officers who were filmed arresting participants&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>In the coastal city of Ashdod&comma; police scuffled with dozens of protesters outside an ultra-Orthodox school&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Five officers were wounded in the disputes&comma; and at least four people were arrested&comma; police said&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>With the country experiencing a raging coronavirus outbreak&comma; the Israeli government last week extended the country’s third nationwide lockdown until the end of January&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The Health Ministry has recorded more than 595&comma;000 cases of the virus since the start of the pandemic and 4&comma;361 deaths&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>New cases continue to climb&comma; even as the country has launched a massive vaccination campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Sunday’s clashes were the latest incident of heightened tensions over enforcement of lockdown rules in ultra-Orthodox neighbourhoods&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>On Friday&comma; ultra-Orthodox Israelis attacked a police vehicle in the city of Bnei Brak&comma; outside Tel Aviv&period; A crowd pelted the police car with stones and punctured its tyres&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu Israel will close its international airport to nearly all flights to help bring the virus outbreak under control&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The entry of highly contagious variants has contributed to one of the world’s highest rates of infection&comma; and has threatened to undercut Israel’s successful vaccination campaign&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Late on Sunday&comma; the Israeli cabinet approved what Mr Netanyahu said would be a tight closure on incoming and outgoing air traffic&period; The government said it would make exceptions for a small number of humanitarian cases&comma; such as funerals and medical patients&comma; and cargo flights&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>The order is to begin early on Tuesday and remain in effect until January 31&period; Mr Netanyahu’s office said the order still requires parliamentary legislation to be finalised&period;<&sol;p>&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div style&equals;"padding-bottom&colon;15px&semi;" class&equals;"wordads-tag" data-slot-type&equals;"belowpost">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<div id&equals;"atatags-dynamic-belowpost-68e23b99445f8">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;<script type&equals;"text&sol;javascript">&NewLine;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;&Tab;window&period;getAdSnippetCallback &equals; 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