Word: petah
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...home front, the next Prime Minister will have to deal with the growing friction between Orthodox and non-Orthodox Jews. Tensions have arisen over issues ranging from burial practices to bus service on the Sabbath. In Petah Tikva, near Tel Aviv, a dispute has broken out over whether restaurants and cinemas could be opened on the Sabbath. The "ultraOrthodox" Jews, as they are known in Israel, have repeatedly battled police in their protests against archaeological digs outside Jerusalem's Old City. When a university professor inadvertently drove through one of their neighborhoods in Jerusalem on a Friday night, thus violating...