Haredim in Beit Shemesh hurled stones at an Egged bus on
Wednesday about an hour after an ultra-Orthodox man were detained by police on
the same street for demanding that a woman sit in the back of the bus.
The bus's windows were shattered, but police said no one was
injured in the incident, which occurred at around noon.
The commotion began when a haredi man delayed the bus and
demanded that a female passenger move to the rear.
Police were alerted to the
scene and took the man into custody. Officers detained for questioning another woman
who disrupted the arrest.
Some two years ago a mass protest was held in Beit Shemesh
against religious extremism in the city and the exclusion of women from the
public sphere and their degradation.
The protest was sparked by an incident in which
ultra-Orthodox men spat on eight-year-old Na'ama Margolis as she was walking to
school and called her a prostitute because her modest dress did not adhere
exactly to their more rigorous dress code.
Protesters hoisted banners reading "Free Israel from
religious coercion," "Stop Israel from becoming Iran,"
"Segregation is a red line," and "The majority is silent no
more."
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