Jerusalem City Council Member Aryeh King invited eighth graders of the "Emunat Zion" Talmud Torah school to his office on Tuesday so that they could study in a relatively orderly place and would not have to study in the municipality plaza.
Students, parents and others associated with the Talmud Torah have been demonstrating in Safra Square since Sunday, when it was removed from space it had been renting in the Ort College building on Neviim Street. demanding that the municipality receive a building for the ultra-Orthodox institution. The parents association said haredi-religious council members "ignore us because we are newly observant. The only ones who took care of us were Religious Zionist King and Laura Wharton of Meretz."