Rally against elections

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men attend a rally calling Orthodox not to vote and to welcome Rabbi Zalman Leib Teitelbaum, in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood January 20, 2013. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Bab el Shams Part II

Israeli border police remove a Palestinian from an outpost of tents in an area known as E1, near Jerusalem January 13, 2013. Israeli security forces evacuated about 100 Palestinians early on Sunday from an outpost of tents pitched in an area of the occupied West Bank that Israel has earmarked for a new settlement. Photo by Olivier

Ultra Orthodox Jewish children protest.

Ultra Orthodox Jewish children participate in protest against attempts to draft members of the cloistered community into the Israeli military, in an ultra Orthodox neighborhood in Jerusalem, Israel, Monday, July 16, 2012. Thousands of ultra-Orthodox Jews, including hundreds of children, are protesting against attempts to draft members of the cloistered community into the Israeli military. The government is currently trying to find a formula to obligate ultra-Orthodox Jews to serve in the military before a court-determined Aug. 1 deadline. ? The current law largely exempts the community from military service. That infuriates many Israelis, since almost all are required to serve. Israel's Supreme Court ruled the law must be revised. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi

Settlers protest against homes evacuation.

Jewish settlers clash with Israeli police after they blocked the road near the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem, Israel, 06 June 2012. Several hundred Jewish settlers marched from the Beit El settlement to the Israeli Knesset in Jerusalem as the Knesset members voted against a law to allow the construction of Jewish houses on private Palestinian land. The plans to evacuate some 30 Jewish families living in five buildings in the Ulpana neighborhood of Bet El and remove the buildings by 01 July. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Final scission

Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men wearing replicas of striped Nazi concentration camp uniforms and yellow David stars take part in a protest against what they see as persecution of devout Jews in Jerusalem's Mea Shearim neighbourhood in this December 31, 2011. Israeli society could be torn apart if disputes between ultra-Orthodox and less observant Jews continue to heat up, Israel's religious affairs minister said on January 4, 2012.
Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Beit Shemesh Day II

Israelis take part in a protest against violence by religious zealots trying to impose their religious code on the town of Beit Shemesh, near Jerusalem December 27, 2011. Several thousand pro-democracy activists protested on Tuesday in the flashpoint town at a rally organised after an outburst of public anger when an eight-year-old girl said on national television that ultra-Orthodox men had spat at her on her way to school, accusing her of immodest dress. The placard reads, "Don't give up on Beit Shemesh."
Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Social protest.

Israelis hold up signs as they take part in a protest march against rising living cost in Jerusalem, Saturday, Sept. 3, 2011. Around 400 000 people took to the streets Satyrday night in several Israeli cities to protest against soaring prices of living. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi

Car terror attack in East Jerusalem

A Palestinian driver was shot and killed in Jerusalem Friday after running over two Israeli border patrolmen, with an apparent intent to kill. The man reportedly hit two the two policemen in East Jerusalem neighborhood of Wadi al-Joz, with reported light injuries sustained by both victims. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Ultra Orthotox protest

Israeli ultra-Orthodox Jewish men during a large protest held at the Intel high-tech facility in Jerusalem, Israel late on 27 December 2009. The facility manufactures high-tech silicon chips and has been the object of previous protests by the Hasidic community protesting that the plant operates on the Jewish Sabbath, Friday night to Saturday night. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Saturday afternoon soccer game or Protest? make your Choice...

Israeli border policemen scuffle with ultra-Orthodox Jews during a demonstration against the opening of a car park during the Sabbath, outside Jerusalem's old city walls on July 11, 2009. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

Parking lot...

UP: Secular residents of Jerusalem take part in a protest to support the opening of a parking lot in Jerusalem June 27, 2009. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.

DOWN: Ultra-Orthodox Jewish men run away from Israeli police during a demonstration against the opening of a parking lot in Jerusalem in the religious neighborhood of Mea Shearim, Saturday, June 27, 2009. Photo by Olivier Fitoussi.