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Amid rising infections, Israeli ultra-Orthodox defy lockdown

by Associated Press
| October 9, 2020 12:06 AM

TEL AVIV, Israel (AP) — After a revered ultra-Orthodox rabbi died this week from COVID-19, Israeli police thought they had worked out an arrangement with his followers to allow a small, dignified funeral that would conform with public health guidelines under the current coronavirus lockdown.

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