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Jerusalem bus ads featuring young women in prayer shawls vandalized

Several public buses featuring photos of young women wearing kippot and prayer shawls were vandalized in Jerusalem.
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October 22, 2014
Several public buses featuring photos of young women wearing kippot and prayer shawls were vandalized in Jerusalem. 
 
The buses had their tires slashed and ads defaced with spray paint in the Charedi Orthodox neighborhood of Mea Shearim. Charedi men were responsible for the vandalism, according to reports. 
 
The bus advertisements, launched last week by the Women of the Wall group, feature Israeli girls aged 11 to 14 wearing a prayer shawl and holding a Torah scroll in front of the Western Wall. The ad reads in Hebrew: “Mom, I too want a bat mitzvah at the Kotel.” 
 
Some 50 percent of the Women of the Wall bus advertising has been vandalized since the campaign began a week ago, according to the Cnaan marketing company. 
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