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Israel News | Ultra-Orthodox Jewish

Israel detains third far-right Jewish Israeli suspected of extremist ties
  • Israeli police have placed the three men in “administrative detention” for six months, allowing them to be held without charge.
  • Police have accused the men of being involved in terror attacks, although no evidence has been presented for formal charging.
  • The arrests follow the recent arson attack by Ultra-Orthodox Jewish extremists against a Palestinian family’s home in the West Bank that left a toddler and his father dead.

“Right now there are three detentions. In the coming days it could be 30, and we could end up with 300. … These orders endanger the entire justice system.”

Read the full story at Reuters.

Gender, Religion + Belief
Zionist religious leaders call for separate gender-segregated accommodations for observant students in Israeli universities
  • Citing the desire to preserve modesty in their academic environments, conservative advocates are attempting to get secular higher education institutions to create separate, gender-segregated learning spaces for students from the Zionist and ultra-Orthodox communities.
  • Organizers have discussed building a “purchasing group” model, gathering students into groups based on field of study in the hopes that universities would “bid” on them, introducing pressure to include gender-segregated classrooms.
  • Although the attempt may signal a new, much-welcomed openness to university studies by ultra-Orthodox communities, higher education officials say that any attempt to create gender-segregated education at non-religious universities would be terminated.

More on this story at Haaretz.

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