How anger over taxes and conscription is widening split among Israel’s Jews
by Miriam Berger in Jerusalem from on (#4G9YY)
After a row over military service ended Netanyahu's efforts to form a government, Israelis speak of the resentments behind the crisis
It's Thursday night at the Mahane Yehuda market in west Jerusalem, where the music is thumping and the drinks are flowing. When a bottle breaks, the crowds erupt with a chorus of "mazel tov", or congratulations.
But as some ultra-Orthodox Jewish men in traditional black suits, side locks, and thick skullcaps pass by, Ad Shamsi's face sours. "What do they have to do here?" asks the 56-year-old Jewish Israeli, who is kicking off the weekend at an outside bar.
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