Jerusalem – Thousands Of Charedi Children Attend Prayer Protest Against ‘Chilul Shabbas’

Jerusalem – Thousands of Charedi children from the “Talmudei Torah” elementary schools attended a marching from the Shabbat Square in downtown Jerusalem to the Safra Square in protest against the decision to open a parking lot at the site on Shabbat.

Th event was called by the Edah HaChredit. The children recited teh Shema prayer, and were holding flags which read in Hebrew “Jerusalem was only destroyed because its inhabitants desecrated the Shabbat”. (Talmud: Shabbat 119b)