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If the people are extreme enough:

Over the weekend, 1500 ultra-Orthodox Jews massed outside a newly-opened Intel plant in Jerusalem in order to protest the chip maker being open on the Sabbath.

The ultra-Orthodox protest was not peaceful. Protesters broke in and ransacked parts of the factory, saving special vehemence for an on-site synagogue installed for Orthodox employees.

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Intel had received multiple threats from different sectors of Israel’s wildly diverse ultra-Orthodox community beforehand. On Thursday, the chipmaker installed a barbed wire fence around the to-be-opened factory in preparation.

And then for the insult

While the masses of ultra-Orthodox rabbis prepared their flocks for protests, the same rabbis quietly gave permission for their female parishoners to work at Intel during the non-Sabbath week. Women needing permission to work in 2009?

I wasn’t aware that women needed permission to work in Israel.

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