Brak

I was in Bnei Brak on the Sunday before, on Elul, at the old Zichron Meir cemetery where my uncle, aunt, and beloved cousin are buried.

They decided to take their fight to the streets of Bnei Brak.

Women and men who are seemingly normative, who assert themselves as liberals, come to Bnei Brak to demonstrate for women’s rights, while trampling other rights along the way.

Illustrative: Ultra-Orthodox students seen at the Ponovitz Yeshiva in Bnei Brak, February 27, 2024.

Israeli police officers clash with Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during an Ultra-Orthodox protest against army draft on July 16, 2024 in Bnei Brak, Israel.

According to Health Ministry figures, Jerusalem has the highest number of coronavirus cases with the much smaller predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak in second place.

Ahead of the burial ceremony, a large number of police officers were deployed to the predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Bnei Brak, where the funeral procession set out from.

Kanievsky is a prominent leader of the Lithuanian ultra-Orthodox community in Bnei Brak with hundreds of thousands of followers.

Later, Rav Kohanim, a resident of Bnei Brak, became a successful businessman but lived extremely modestly and spent most of his day learning Torah.

Netanyahu announced new curbs on Wednesday to deter movement around Bnai Brak, an ultra-Orthodox Jewish town that has suffered a disproportionately large outbreak.

New figures released earlier Thursday continued to show the cities of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak far outpacing other locations in patient numbers, with 1,630 and 1,594 cases respectively.

No further details were given on the location of the groups nor of the religion of those involved, but in video footage released by the police, they were seen shutting down at least one group in Bnei Brak.

Police arrested 13 people in Bnei Brak on Sunday, during violent clashes that erupted as police tried to shutter a synagogue in the ultra-Orthodox city, where hundreds were praying in violation of the ongoing coronavirus lockdown.

Police close a synagogue in Bnei Brak that was open despite coronavirus restrictions forbidding it, the Ynet news site reports.

Rav Wolff is the son of Rav Menny and Feigel Wolff of Kiryat Malachi, Israel, and is the son-in-law of the famed Chabad shaliach Rav Moshe Greenberg, z’l, and his wife Devorah, of Bnei Brak.

The move comes after the city of Bnei Brak was placed into lockdown on Friday morning.

After the probe was launched last week, 12 people were questioned, mostly residents from the Bnei Brak and Jerusalem areas.

An election poster featuring Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu overlooking a street in Bnei Brak, December 2018.

In July, the 29-year-old Bnei Brak native was arrested in Greece following a joint operation by Interpol and the Israel Police.

In this Sept. 17, 2019 photo, ultra-Orthodox Jews watch Rabbi Israel Hager vote in Bnei Brak, Israel.