Haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters on Highway 4 called Israel Police "Nazis" and threw stones during Tuesday's protests against the plan perform autopsies on the two infants who died in Monday's Jerusalem daycare disaster, the police said in a statement.
A protester was also arrested for attacking a Bnei Brak police commander, as the protest was ruled as "unlawful" and the crowd refused to disperse.
In Jerusalem, an 18-year-old was run over after sitting in the road in front of a vehicle at the Golda Meir Interchange during the Tuesday protests, and was evacuated by Magen David Adom personnel to Shaare Zedek Medical Center with moderate injuries.
The offending driver has been detained for questioning, Israel Police said on Tuesday afternoon, warning protesters to avoid altercations with drivers and listen to police instructions.
In a separate incident, protesters swarmed a vehicle on Bar-Ilan Road. According to the Israel Police, the car was heavily damaged, and protesters also attempted to attack the driver.
Officers in the area dispersed the protesters and escorted the driver to safety without injury.
Earlier on Tuesday, a protester was arrested in Jerusalem for shoving an elderly citizen into oncoming traffic.
Eleven protesters have been arrested in total during protests in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh, Israel Police said, and flash grenades are reportedly being used in an attempt to disperse protesters as demonstrations turned violent.
Protesters in Jerusalem and on Highway 4 have begun to disperse following the High Court of Justice's blocking of the plan perform the autopsies.
Peleg Yerushalmi: We 'won the battle of dignity of the dead'
The extreme haredi protest group, Peleg Yerushalmi (Jerusalem Faction), commented on the decision to block the planned autopsies, stating that protesters "won the battle over the dignity of the dead."
The group referenced a bus driver running over a 14-year-old, killing them in a recent protest against the IDF draft. "By this action, [the court and police] permitted the blood of tens of thousands of haredim across the country to be shed, sending a message that it is possible to kill a haredi youth and move on as if nothing happened," it said.
"In the past 24 hours, several cases occurred that proved this, one vehicle ramming into another last night in Bnei Brak, and in Jerusalem today, where drivers were documented taking the law into their own hands and running over demonstrators as if they were a cockroach blocking their way," the group accused.
"It is permitted to run over a haredi protester in Israel - nothing will happen to you. There is no deterrence - it is like a third-world country," the group alleged.
"You have permitted the blood of the haredim [to be spilled]," they concluded.
Second consecutive day of protests
The protesters have gathered for the second consecutive day in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, and on central Israel's Highway 4 on Tuesday, blocking Jerusalem's light rail tracks and attacking bus drivers.
Authorities have called for the autopsies, given that the cause of death has not yet been definitively determined.
However, police have asked the court to extend the detention of two daycare staff by six days under suspicion of causing death by negligence and neglect.
Notably, the families of the two deceased infants also petitioned the High Court of Justice against the plan to perform autopsies, after a Jerusalem Magistrate's Court judge ruled that there is room within Jewish law (halacha) to permit an autopsy in order to uncover a criminal or to clear a criminal suspicion, N12 cited.
Haredi protesters denouncing these plans attacked bus drivers in the haredi neighborhood of Geula and on Yehezkel Street, both in northern Jerusalem, N12 reported.
Israel Police officers began dispersing the protest, which they called illegal, while activists were still causing property damage, including setting garbage bins on fire, while also blocking traffic, the report noted.
Additionally, a haredi man who tried to remove a boulder that was placed on the road to prevent vehicles from passing was assaulted by protesting activists, who pushed him to the ground, the report added.
Protesters also blocked the Jerusalem light rail tracks near the Shivtei Israel station, and police used a water cannon to forcibly disperse protesters at the nearby intersection between Shmuel Hanavi and Bar Ilan Streets.
On Monday night, similar protests took place at various locations, turning violent, including in Jerusalem, Beit Shemesh, Modi'in Ilit, and on Highway 4.
Daycare parent: Manager is 'professional, caring, excellent'
Meanwhile, one of the parents of a child at the daycare center at the focus of the disaster told KAN Reshet Bet that the daycare manager is a woman who they felt was "professional, caring, and excellent" when they met her, adding that she "received our daughter every morning with love."
Discussing the pictures showing neglect and poor conditions within the daycare, the father said, "I saw the pictures and was shocked. I do not know if it is real. I experienced something else - an excellent caregiver... I know it sounds bizarre, but if she reopens the daycare, I will send my daughter there. She has been in the field for 30 years, and there were no complaints."