While the crowd was being dispersed, dozens of wedding guests clashed with the cops and threw rocks at them, damaging a police vehicle, according to the statement.
The event organizers and the owner of the venue were summoned for questioning, and their sound equipment was seized.
The officers who allowed the wedding go ahead have been summoned for a hearing on their conduct, according to the Ynet news site, after a photo circulated on social media showing a police officer bowing as he receives a blessing during the event, surrounded by unmasked Hasidic revelers.
תמונה מחתונת תולדות אברהם יצחק אמש בביתר עילית שאומרת הכל pic.twitter.com/P7lBaxcJwk
In a separate event in the central Israel city of Bnei Brak, some 700 members of the Erlau Hasidic dynasty participated in the wedding of its leader’s grandchild at a construction site.
A Moderna COVID-19 vaccine held by a nurse in Boston, Massachusetts, December 30, 2020. (Elise Amendola/AP)
The US biotech company Moderna will deliver a first batch of coronavirus vaccines to Israel Thursday, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said Wednesday.
He did not give a number, but reports have indicated between 100,000 and 150,000 doses will arrive in the first shipment, and that some 300,000 will have arrived by early next week.
Netanyahu said the vaccines will prioritize “people who cannot come to health maintenance organizations and to those quarantined at homes who cannot come to inoculation sites,” Netanyahu said, perhaps due to the fact that Moderna’s vaccine requires less rigorous cooling conditions than those of Pfizer, which have been serving Israel’s vaccination program so far.
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