The Agence France-Presse (AFP) website reports that clashes erupted today (December 26, 2011) between police and several hundred ultra-Orthodox Jews -- who are campaigning for men and women to be segregated -- in a town near Jerusalem.
Israeli police had increased their patrols in Beit Shemesh following unrest sparked by discrimination against women imposed by a radical branch of the town's Orthodox Jews.
Residents of Beit Shemesh -- a town of about 80,000 people 18 miles west of Jerusalem -- showered police and television crews with eggs and stones, and set fire to refuse bins.
Several placards urging segregation between men and women that had been removed by police were later put back up by the protesters.
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