Dozens of people showed up next to the Binyanei Ha'uma International Convention Center in Jerusalem Thursday to protest the homosexual pride parade. A number of them carried signs in the shape of donkeys. Hundreds of hareidi-religious Jews demonstrated against the parade at Kikar Shabbat (Sabbath Square) in the Mea She'arim neighborhood of the capital.
Police detained anti-parade activist Baruch Marzel, claiming he confronted participants in the parade. Marzel explained that one of them tried to steal a sign from an anti-parade demonstrator and he prevented that from happening. Police arrested three young women on Agron Street, next to Independence Park, where the parade started, on suspicion that they intended to throw eggs at the marchers.