{"id":599929,"date":"2026-08-29T19:40:09","date_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:40:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599929\/"},"modified":"2026-08-29T19:40:09","modified_gmt":"2026-08-29T19:40:09","slug":"haredi-protesters-block-jerusalem-entry-roads-police-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/599929\/","title":{"rendered":"Haredi protesters block Jerusalem entry roads, police say"},"content":{"rendered":"

Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters set up a series of roadblocks<\/a> at the entrance to Jerusalem on Saturday evening, blocking traffic for nearly two hours before police dispersed the demonstration, according to a police statement.<\/p>\n

According to police, \u201cfollowing the blockade at the entrance to Jerusalem, the protesters have left the area, and traffic has returned to normal.\u201d<\/p>\n

Officers have remained on scene to \u201censure the continued flow of traffic<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

Jerusalem<\/a> Deputy Mayor Adir Schwartz, chairman of the Awakening Movement, condemned the roadblocks, saying that the protest had crossed a red line.<\/p>\n

\u201cWhat is happening now at the entrance to Jerusalem is crossing a red line. No one can decide to close the city by blocking roads<\/a> and threats,\u201d Schwartz said.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe liberal public in Jerusalem will not give in and will not disappear. We will continue to come to the city, spend time there, and live there even on Shabbat, because Jerusalem belongs to all of us.\u201d<\/p>\n

Schwartz added that attempts to turn Jerusalem into a city closed on Shabbat through pressure and intimidation would fail.<\/p>\n

\u201cJerusalem will allow everyone to spend Shabbat as they see fit, and the Zionist and liberal public will continue to be here, in the public space and in open businesses,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

\u201cI expect the Israel Police to act with the same determination as we saw they know how to do in the alley cafe,\u201d Schwartz added.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters set up a series of roadblocks at the entrance to Jerusalem on Saturday evening, blocking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":599930,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[132751,85,46,1158,3794,43,52,8440],"class_list":["post-599929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-haredi-protests","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-jerusalem","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-traffic"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599929","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=599929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/599929\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/599930"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=599929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=599929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=599929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}