Bnei brak

Baby dies at unlicensed Bnei Brak daycare, worker detained by police for further questioning

Israel Police launched an investigation at the location and collected evidence, while the daycare worker who was in charge of the baby was arrested for questioning.

Police officer establishing the administrative closure order of a daycare where a six-month old baby died.
 Rain in Bnei Brak

Haredim in Israel’s periphery show distinct lifestyle gaps from center, Shoresh Institute finds

Burned flag found in home of 16-year-old from Bnei Brak.

Police arrest 16-year-old from Bnei Brak suspected of setting fire to Pride flag in Tel Aviv

View of floods in the central city of Yavne, as storm Byron hits Israel, December 11, 2025

Multiple injured as severe weather causes tree collapses in Ashkelon, Bnei Brak


Police made secret deal not to enforce lockdown in Bnei Brak - report

It seems the deal came to an end following clashes with Vizhnitz hassidim Thursday.

Bnei Brak street scene, April 3

Vizhnitz grand rabbi instructs schools to open

“I hereby order in the open that Vizhnitz schools be opened and that these words be published in the official ultra-Orthodox Hamodia newspaper tomorrow.”

A Simchat Beit Hashoeva celebration at the Viznitz hasidic headquarters in Bnei Brak last year.

Police arrive in Bnei Brak to find vandals, equipped to disperse crowd

The residents protesting the police were ultra-Orthodox extremists belonging to teh Vizhnitz Hasidic dynasty. The protesters numbered in the dozens.

Ultra-Orthodox Jews pray outside their home in the city of Bnei Brak on January 14, 2021, during the 3rd lockdown due to the COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic.

Bnei Brak residents clash with police trying to enforce COVID lockdown

The incident was condemned by many politicians, including by ultra-Orthodox MKs who called on extremist factions in the ultra-Orthodox community to cooperate with the police.

Damage done to the police vehicle by ultra-Orthodox rioters in Bnei Brak on Thursday, January 21, 2020.

Police close Bnei Brak synagogue amid coronavirus restrictions

Police closed a synagogue in Bnei Brak on Wednesday that operated illegally even though it was supposed to be closed due to coronavirus restrictions.

MEN PRAY outside during the third nationwide COVID-19 lockdown, in Bnei Brak on Thursday. (Yossi Zeliger/Flash90)

Israel Police clash with ultra-Orthodox COVID-19 regulation violators

Ultra-Orthodox rabbinic leadership calls for community to get COVID-19 vaccine as soon as possible.

Police officers during a raid on a Yeshiva that is open in violation of the Covid-19 emergency regulations, at the Sanhedria Neighborhood in Jerusalem, January 19, 2021.

Rabbi Gershon Edelstein gets vaccinated, calls on public to do the same

Rabbi Edelstein, 97, heads the Ponevezh Yeshiva in Bnei Brak and serves as leader of the Degel HaTorah political party.

Rabbi Gershon Edelstein

Extremists torch United Hatzalah COVID-19 testing center in Bnei Brak

No one was harmed during the incident.

The remains of a Hatzalah coronavirus testing facility are seen after it was burnt down in an arson attack.

Haredi developers join battle against COVID-19 in Bnei Brak hackathon

"Particularly because we were so deeply affected by the virus, we were determined to recruit our greatest minds to gather and fight this life-threatening illness on the front lines."

Haredi developers take part in coronavirus-focused hackathon in Bnei Brak, Nov. 2020

Bnei Brak infection rate plummets

The city has had more than 25,000 infections, and 143 have died from COVID-19. But now, instead of being in the top 10 for infection rates, it is No. 93.

An ultra-Orthodox Jewish woman crosses a street with her children in Bnei Brak, a town badly affected by the coronavirus disease (COVID-19), and which Israel declared a "restricted zone" due to its high rate of infections, near Tel Aviv, Israel April 5, 2020