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Not so quiet on the western front

For many residents, Kiryat Hayovel is symbolic of the haredi/non-haredi battle being waged in the city.

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Photo by: Marc Israel Sellem/The Jerusalem Post
On February 8 of this year, residents of the Kiryat Hayovel neighborhood woke up to what some saw as a bad joke, and others as a serious insult. Covering four of the neighborhood’s billboards were posters depicting naked women, all taken from famous Renaissance paintings and displayed – deliberately – near buildings where haredi (ultra-Orthodox) families lived.

In answer to a local press correspondent’s question, Shai (not his real name) stated bluntly over the phone that this was the work of his fellow “Free Jerusalem Patrol” members, aiming to keep the neighborhood completely secular.

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