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Neturei Karta in 10 Minutes
Neturei Karta—"Guardians of the City"—emerged in 1930s Jerusalem as a tiny, uncompromising faction of ultra-Orthodox Jews who rejected Zionism as a forbidden human attempt to force the end of exile before the coming of the Messiah. Clad in their distinctive black garments and living largely in Mea Shearim, its adherents have spent decades publicly opposing the very existence of the State of Israel, sometimes carrying their protest to the point of aligning with the Jewish people's most determined enemies, remaining a marginal yet persistent reminder that even within the Jewish world the…
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