Police attacked with stones at Jewish costume festival Purim in Israel – S. China Post

Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews marking the Purim holiday threw stones at police in Jerusalem on Sunday, as tensions persist between authorities and a deeply religious community accused of repeatedly flouting coronavirus restrictions.Police said residents of Jerusalem’s mainly ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighbourhood threw stones at officers who had cut down police effigies hanging from power lines.“Police commissioner Yaakov Shabtai” was written on one effigy.Some ultra-Orthodox shouted “Nazis”…