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