Demography Favors Rise of Israel's Right - Al-Monitor: The Middle Eastʼs leading independent news source since 2012

Akiva Eldar

Akiva Eldar

Jan 2, 2013

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in a yoga class at a studio in Ramat Beit Shemesh, some 20 km (12 miles) from Jerusalem January 1, 2013. Almost a dozen devout Jewish men meet weekly at the studio, the only one of its kind in a neighbourhood where tensions have flared in the past between religious and secular Jews. The studio offers gender separated classes in accordance with the religious beliefs against mixing of the sexes in public. Picture taken January 1, 2013. REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun (ISRAEL - Tags: S — Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men take part in a yoga class at a studio some 12 miles from Jerusalem, Jan. 1, 2013. The studio offers gender separated classes in accordance with the religious beliefs against mixing of the sexes in public. — REUTERS/Ronen Zvulun

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