Supporters of Yaakov Yosef took to the streets in Jerusalem, burning tyres and blocking the city's light railway

Hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jews protest in Jerusalem in July 2009 against an "unjustified" arrest of a religious woman and the opening of a parking lot during the Sabbath. Israeli police briefly detained a rabbi on Sunday over his endorsement of a controversial book that justifies the killing of non-Jews in certain circumstances, a police spokesman said on Sunday.