The media, being a Jєωιѕн construct by and large, is wilfully distorting the issue.
At its core, the protest has to do with something the haredim, Jєωry's greatest freeloaders (not that it's easy for us mere goyim to distinguish one Jєωιѕн freeloader from another), are mightily upset about. Whilst they have been claiming for sixty years that they regard the State of Israel as an abomination, its abominableness hasn't stopped them from moving there—or in the case of the super-rich Jєωs of Crown Heights, Forest Hills, and Westchester, Putnam, and Sullivan counties, from maintaining a pied à terre there and flying over there on Israeli election days to vote—because using their money and other forms of influence, they have gotten themselves exempted from military service so they can pursue "religious" study. (That at least is the term used to describe their diamond businesses and their government-backed seizures of Palestinian property.) Their "religiousness" also exempts them from many if not most taxes (Israel, being the model of a modern communist state, taxes at least as many things as Uncle Herschel Sam does).
The secular-atheist gangster-founders of this storefront operation of International Jєωry decided long ago to roll out the red carpet for these self-important cultists in their midst. They figured, "So what? There aren't many of them, and the Gentiles really think the haredim are weirdly attractive—the echtest of echt Jєωs!" What the gangsters didn't count on was the fertility of these horny, inbred jerks. Their families are typically three and four times larger than more secular Israeli Jєωιѕн families, and so of late, with even the billions in American government, NGO, and QUANGO support cash being insufficient to maintain the lavish standard of living of all these bums, the Knesset klowns have debated whether to put some of the special-status provisions enjoyed by the haredim into at least temporary abeyance.
No important Western newspaper would publicize the facts because of the embarrassment it would cause the self-chosen. Doubtless, too, any wider awareness might awaken some people to the fact that everything involving Jєωs is a racket. That awakening, of course, usually goes by another name in Establishment circles: anti-Semitism, history's oldest hate. [yawn]