Sabbath clashes over Jerusalem cafe expose Israel’s social fault lines

Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has relied politically on ultra-Orthodox Jews for nearly two decades, and has helped the ultra-Orthodox exert growing clout.

Alma Ronen has been fighting in the Israeli military nearly constantly for more than two years. Spending her Saturday not in uniform but in a T-shirt and jeans, she would like to enjoy a coffee outside -- and resents that her more religious compatriots think otherwise. Every week since June, ultra-Orthodox protesters h