{"id":1736,"date":"2006-09-26T11:41:11","date_gmt":"2006-09-26T09:41:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/26\/once-again-arabs-travel-freely-jews-restricted-this-time-in-the-old-city\/"},"modified":"2006-09-26T11:41:11","modified_gmt":"2006-09-26T09:41:11","slug":"once-again-arabs-travel-freely-jews-restricted-this-time-in-the-old-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/2006\/09\/26\/once-again-arabs-travel-freely-jews-restricted-this-time-in-the-old-city\/","title":{"rendered":"Once Again, Arabs Travel Freely, Jews Restricted, This Time in the Old City&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.israelnationalnews.com\/news.php3?id=112595\"><strong>Restrictions on Old City Jews During Ramadan, by Hillel Fendel<\/strong><\/a>    (Israel National News)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Full Text;<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong>With the onset of Ramadan (Moslem holy month) celebrations, the police have instructed Jews living on a main Old City thoroughfare not to traverse it between 8 and 10 PM in the coming weeks.  <\/p>\n<p>The Jews living in the Moslem Quarter of the Old City &#8211; 800 in number &#8211; were informed by the Jerusalem Police that they must not leave their homes without prior coordination during the evening hours. This, because of the expected large number of Moslem celebrants &#8211; including many hostile ones &#8211; returning from the Temple Mount at that time each night.<\/p>\n<p>Ramadan, for devout Muslims, is a month of fasting by day and feasting at night.<\/p>\n<p>The orders originally applied to all the Jewish families in the area, but were later reduced, following a request to the police, to include only HaGai St. Some 30 Jewish families, as well as the students of a yeshiva and a pre-military academy, live on HaGai St.<\/p>\n<p>Reactions among the Jewish public were mixed. One man said, &#8220;It is not acceptable to us that the police simply decides that it cannot protect us and enforce the law and that therefore we must be restricted.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Is it conceivable in the U.S. that the police would inform the Greek community not to leave their homes because the Italians are having a celebration?&#8221; asked another.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, local security head Yuval Alpert told Arutz-7, &#8220;We work together with the police and trust them.&#8221; Asked why the police don&#8217;t simply station more forces in the area, he said, &#8220;You apparently don&#8217;t realize the numbers of Arabs that are going to pass on this street &#8211; very many&#8230; In any event, we will still be able to reach our homes via back ways and the like.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The Jerusalem Police Department informed Arutz-7&#8217;s Shimon Cohen that the roads will simply be divided in a way that will enable separate ambulatory traffic routes for Jews and Arabs. Asked if there will be roads that are open only to Jews, the police spokesman said no.<\/strong><\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Restrictions on Old City Jews During Ramadan, by Hillel Fendel (Israel National News) Full Text; With the onset of Ramadan (Moslem holy month) celebrations, the police have instructed Jews living on a main Old City thoroughfare not to traverse it between 8 and 10 PM in the coming weeks. The Jews living in the Moslem [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1736","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1736"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1736\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1736"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1736"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sefer-torah.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1736"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}