{"id":609013,"date":"2026-09-07T22:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609013\/"},"modified":"2026-09-07T22:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T22:28:08","slug":"ultra-orthodox-demonstrators-protest-against-jerusalem-light-rail-construction","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/609013\/","title":{"rendered":"Ultra-Orthodox demonstrators protest against Jerusalem Light Rail construction"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Police said activists tried to block traffic and damage the construction sites, and officers began dispersing the crowd after declaring the protest unlawful.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">A suspect in the alleged arson was later arrested by police and taken in for questioning. An additional suspect was arrested for throwing stones at security forces.<\/p>\n<p>The protests follow an N12 News report that haredi protests have cumulatively caused over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-901802\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">NIS 400 million in damage<\/a> to the Jerusalem Light Rail&#8217;s unfinished Green Line since construction began about six years ago.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The protests have caused Jerusalem Light Rail operator Cfir to change opening dates and routing in several sections of the line, according to N12.<\/p>\n<p>Walla and Alon Hachmon contributed to this report.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Police said activists tried to block traffic and damage the construction sites, and officers began dispersing the crowd&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":609014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12184,11071,42,46,3794,229813,43,52,40,38,41,39,12185],"class_list":["post-609013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-haredi","tag-haredim","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-jerusalem","tag-jerusalem-light-rail","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ultra-orthodox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609013","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=609013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/609013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/609014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=609013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=609013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=609013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}