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Residents have linked the closing of Danny Books to pressure from the ultra-Orthodox public, and according to one employee, the owner was pressured into closing. One neighborhood resident says this is not an isolated incident, but part of a wider Haredification of the neighborhood

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Danny Books, in the Jerusalem municipality settlement neighborhood of Ramot. The store has been boycotted by the growing ultra-Orthodox population. Credit: Noam Revkin Fenton
Residents have linked the closing of Danny Books to pressure from the ultra-Orthodox public, and according to one employee, the owner was pressured into closing. One neighborhood resident says this is not an isolated incident, but part of a wider Haredification of the neighborhood
10:24 PM • May 02 2026 IDT
Tuesday afternoon was busy at "Danny Books" at Jerusalem's Ramot shopping mall, as customers crowded the store's liquidation sale. Most of the shelves were already empty.
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