As Israelis all over the country wrapped up their celebrations of Israel’s 69th Independence Day on Tuesday, a group of ultra-Orthodox Jews in Jerusalem set fire to an Israeli flag.
Video footage aired by a channel showed a group of men and boys from Jerusalem’s ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood standing in a circle around a bonfire, as one man waved a large, burning flag backwards and forwards in the flames.
Some segments of ultra-Orthodox society refuse to recognize the State of Israel and oppose Zionism, because of their belief that the establishment of a Jewish state should only co
...me after the arrival of the Jewish Messiah.
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