Hundreds show up to protest event, which is being held after a district court overturned the municipality's decision to block it.
Police pin down a protester outside the Jehova's Witnesses seminar, Ra'anana, May 2, 2015 Photo by Allison Kaplan Sommer
A demonstration against a Jehovah’s Witnesses seminar being held in a municipal building turned violent in Ra’anana.
Hundreds of protesters showed up to protest the event, which was held on Saturday morning and continued throughout the day, after a prolonged court struggle in which the municipality unsuccessfully attempted to cancel the event.
Two days, earlier, a district court ruled that the objection to the event infringed on the right to freedom of religion and ritual and overturned the municipality’s decision to cancel the event so as not to “hurt the feelings of the public.”
