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LEHAVOT HABASHAN, Israel—In the days after the Oct. 7 Hamas attacks in southern Israel, Orna Rayn searched frantically for someone to build a wooden barricade to secure the door of a safe room in her house about 6 miles from the Lebanon border. Rayn’s sister, Einat Rothem-Nechushtan, moved into the safe room on Oct. 10, even before the Israeli government ordered the evacuation of her own small farming community in northern Israel because of fears of all-out war with Hezbollah, the Iran-backed army in Lebanon.

Persons: LEHAVOT HABASHAN, Israel —, Orna Rayn, Einat Locations: Israel, Lebanon, Iran

☆ Israel Protests Turn Focus to Women’s Rights Amid Religious Parties’ Rise
▼ + stars: | 2023-08-26 | by ( Shayndi Raice | Photographs Kobi Wolf For The Wall Street Journal | ) www.wsj.com time to read: 1 min

BNEI BRAK, Israel—When Maayan Elkabir boarded a public bus in the Israeli city of Ashdod, she said the driver scolded the 15-year-old for wearing a tank top and shorts on a line used by ultra-Orthodox Jews. She said he told her and her teenage friends to sit at the back of the bus and cover themselves up with blankets.

Persons: Maayan Elkabir Locations: BNEI BRAK, Israel, Ashdod

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BNAI BRAK, Israel—Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu is rapidly moving ahead with a judicial-overhaul plan that could begin final passage through parliament next week, as the debate over the legislation exposes deep fissures between Israel’s secular and religious communities. Over the past three months, protests against the legislation have brought out hundreds of thousands of people in a country of nine million.

JERUSALEM—A small group of Jewish men clad in black and white stood in a quiet nook of Judaism’s holiest site one recent morning, gently rocking and murmuring prayers before Israeli police motioned for them to move on. Such a scene would have resulted in arrests just a few years ago for violating a longstanding unofficial agreement between Israel and Islamic religious authorities, which forbids non-Muslims from praying on the site known to Jews as the Temple Mount and to Muslims as the Noble Sanctuary.

KIRYAT ARBA, West Bank—Military towers loom over the highway leading to far-right lawmaker Itamar Ben-Gvir ’s hometown, a settlement next to the Palestinian city of Hebron. Residents walk around with pistols strapped to their thighs, just beside their tzitzit, the ritual tassels mandated by Jewish law, as clusters of children play in the streets. Once largely confined to the fringes of Israeli society, an ultranationalist political outlook forged in Jewish West Bank settlements like Kiryat Arba has now been thrust to the center of Israeli public life by Mr. Ben-Gvir’s success in last week’s election. The Religious Zionism ticket co-led by Mr. Ben-Gvir won 14 seats in the 120-seat Parliament, or Knesset, making it the third-largest party in Israel.

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