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"Shabbat" in Israel feed
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Haaretz - 08:48 Aug 11, 2026
The ultra-Orthodox aren't happy about a new coffee shop operating on Shabbat in Jerusalem. But there are plenty more places to enjoy a good cup of coffee around Israel on Saturday -
Haaretz - 08:30 Aug 08, 2026
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox protesters gathered in streets surrounding the cafe, which in past weeks has turned into the center of a growing dispute over businesses operating on Shabbat. 'Let them open in a secular neighborhood,' one Haredi leader said -
Haaretz - 21:36 Aug 07, 2026
As demonstrations against Café Basimta grow, one Haredi leader said that the owner has a 'right to open on Shabbat, and we have the right to protest against it. There are plenty of secular neighborhoods in the city – let them open there' -
Haaretz - 12:35 Aug 06, 2026
In Jerusalem, ultra-Orthodox extremists are targeting a café that opens on Shabbat. In Ramat Gan businesses have been torched or vandalized. The battle is not only over the Jewish day of rest, but over Israel's identity -
Haaretz - 12:08 Aug 01, 2026
In the latest of consecutive protests against the Jerusalem Café Basimta operating on Shabbat, police forcefully fended off Haredi protesters who attempted to break in, as dozens of secular residents gathered to voice their support for the café -
Haaretz - 10:26 Jul 11, 2026
For the second week in a row, confrontations developed between ultra-Orthodox protesters and secular Israelis at the recently opened BaSimta café, the only business in the central Jerusalem neighbourhood that is open on Shabbat -
JPost.com - Business & Innovation - 10:05 Jun 22, 2026
The Director General of the Ministry of Interior sent an unprecedented letter to the municipality, attacking the non-enforcement of the law on Shabbat. Will the giant complex be closed?
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Haaretz - 20:36 Jun 17, 2026
After police barred anti-Netanyahu protesters from demonstrating in Jerusalem last Saturday for the first time, the High Court said a ban on sound equipment until the end of Shabbat will remain in place, but protests will not be restricted -
Haaretz - 17:26 Aug 22, 2025
Hostage families blocked highways and conducted a symbolic Shabbat meal outside Prime Minister Netanyahu's house on Friday ahead of planned major Tuesday protests. 'Families are forced to spend the Sabbath fearing for their loved ones,' the activists said -
Haaretz - 18:55 Apr 03, 2025
The mall has revived a decades-old debate over Shabbat observance in public spaces. While ultra-Orthodox leaders call it a 'civic obligation,' BIG Shopping Centers said, 'Live and let live. Stop interfering in secular people's lives' -
Israel Hayom - 08:57 Jun 09, 2024
In an incredible act of solidarity and kindness, Mayor of Highland Park Elsie Foster hand-delivered the message of the hostages' return to every synagogue in town so that they could share it with their congregations. The news of the hostage rescue in Israel broke on Shabbat, so observant Jews in the New Jersey county […] -
Haaretz - 22:33 Mar 03, 2024
Israel's ban on infrastructure work on Shabbat has no parallel anywhere in the enlightened world. This government of the ultra-Orthodox and the far right isn't even capable of building an overpass on Shabbat -
JPost.com - Antisemitism - 01:24 Dec 23, 2023
Temple Beth Am is not the first synagogue to have its Shabbat services disrupted by pro-Palestinian protests.
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Israel Hayom - 08:48 Nov 08, 2023
Last Friday night, the Nitzan family invited for Shabbat dinner soldiers posted to beef up security in the community of Shiloh in the Binyamin region. Fifteen minutes before Shabbat, Yaakov, the father of the family, saw a group of soldiers gathered outside the house. "I wonder why they are early," he asked himself and […] -
Haaretz - 14:57 Nov 07, 2023
As war rages in Gaza, Israel's internal fight over public transportation grinds to a halt as buses, trains and airplanes continue to operate on Shabbat.