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While talmidim succeeded in preventing city officials from destroying illegally built portions of Yeshivas Pnei Shmuel in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of Yerushalayim on Monday night, they were back on Tuesday, determined to demolish the areas ordered removed by the courts.

Confrontations continued on HaPisgah Street on Tuesday morning 19 Adar-II as talmidim once again took to the streets, unwilling to permit authorities to destroy significant portions of the yeshiva. At least five of the protestors were arrested.

This saga has been ongoing for at least a year, pertaining to illegal additions to a yeshiva under the leadership of Rabbi Neuwirth Shlita. The yeshiva, Pnei Shmuel, is located at 20 HaPisgah Street in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood of the capital. According to Jerusalem City Hall, some 1000 meters of the multistory building have been added illegally and in some of the construction, materials that are prohibited were used, materials that pose a health threat to the area.

Each side, the yeshiva and City Hall, accuse the other of distorting the facts in the case.

(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem / Video with permission from Kikar Shabbos via Media Resource Group)