Thousands of the frontline city's residents are riding out incessant Hamas artillery, citing faith, defiance -- and lack of better options

Multiple people at the biannual event at the Western Wall describe it as a corrective experience

Moshe Gafni says confrontations show activists 'are not referring to judicial reform,' claims that warnings that reforms would harm economy have been proven wrong

Tel Aviv District Court judge urges Rosh Yehudi, municipality to come to agreement on planned gatherings in city, after Yom Kippur altercations; jurist cites 'reasonableness law'

The breaking up of a prayer event over gender segregation has galvanized liberals worried about a slide into coercion, with battle lines mirroring divisions found in overhaul fight

Municipality casts Rosh Yehudi's use of physical gender barriers as 'severe' violation of permit conditions, says now-nixed plans could have caused another public disturbance

At ceremony marking 50 years since Yom Kippur War, president urges Israelis to set aside differences and unite like in 1973, since 'internal threat is the most acute of all'

Angry scenes at Dizengoff Square events on Sunday and Monday after Rosh Yehudi group defies courts, puts up improvised flag barrier between men and woman; similar tussles elsewhere

Though municipality and courts rejected request to segregate genders in public space, Rosh Yehudi reverses its declared intention to nix event

Judges side with lower court and municipality, say decision follows 'prevailing public policy' against gender segregation