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Daily Briefing Jan. 7: Day 824 – Chaos and death at a Haredi anti-IDF protest

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Welcome to The Times of Israel’s Daily Briefing, your 20-minute audio update on what’s happening in Israel, the Middle East and the Jewish world.

Political reporter Sam Sokol joins host Jessica Steinberg for today’s episode.

WATCH the full episode here:

After a 14-year-old ultra-Orthodox teenager was killed and three others were injured by a bus ramming into protesters following a mass Haredi rally against IDF conscription, Sokol describes the chaotic scene, including fires set in the middle of a busy street by young men and teens roaming around Jerusalem’s Romema neighborhood on Tuesday night.

The rally, the initiative of a group of leading ultra-Orthodox rabbis and connected to the Jerusalem Faction, an extremist........

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