Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat on Thursday evening threatened to dismiss his deputy, Haim Epstein, who represents the extremist haredi organization 'The Yerushalmi Faction', if the organization goes through with its threats to disrupt the Jerusalem Marathon, scheduled for Friday.
"In order to prevent disruptions along dozens of kilometers of the race tracks, the police will have to allocate unprecedented manpower, while these forces will have to deal at the same time with traffic disruptions and demonstrations all across the country," the Yerushalmi Faction said in a statement earlier on Thursday.