{"id":544520,"date":"2026-07-16T14:52:08","date_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:52:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544520\/"},"modified":"2026-07-16T14:52:08","modified_gmt":"2026-07-16T14:52:08","slug":"highway-4-closed-in-both-directions-due-to-haredi-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/544520\/","title":{"rendered":"Highway 4 closed in both directions due to haredi protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Highway 4 was closed in both directions from 4 p.m. on Thursday due to a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protest in Bnei Brak, Israel Police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The closure affects the highway between the Aluf Sade Interchange, south of Ramat Gan, and the Em Hamoshavot Interchange, north of Bnei Brak, police added.<\/p>\n<p>Video footage seen by The Jerusalem Post appears to show haredi protesters sitting in the highway blocking cars, buses, and other vehicles from being able to pass at Highway 4&#8217;s Geha Interchange.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The footage also shows Israel Police and Border Police officers at the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A police officer at the scene declared the demonstration illegal, Israel Police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The protesters continued to block the highway despite police requesting that they move, Israel Police said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The police advised the public to seek alternative routes, noting that additional traffic will likely occur on adjacent highways.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A second protest is expected outside Military Prison 10 in Beit Lid due to the arrest of a haredi draft dodger, Ynet reported.<\/p>\n<p>This is a developing story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Highway 4 was closed in both directions from 4 p.m. on Thursday due to a haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protest&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":544521,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[62036,12184,85,46,1158,43,52],"class_list":["post-544520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-bnei-brak","tag-haredi","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-protests"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544520","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544520\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/544521"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}