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Police clashed with some 100 ultra-Orthodox protesters in Jerusalem on Sunday, arresting three people.

Demonstrators from the Toldot Aharon Hasidic sect were protesting the opening of a cellphone store in their neighborhood. The insular group has in recent years been waging a battle against internet usage and especially web-connected phone ownership in its communities.

Police said the three people were arrested for disrupting police and attacking officers.

Video posted online showed a police officer using a baton to keep a group of protestors who had surrounded him away.

There have been several protests over the opening of the store in recent weeks, due to its sale of regular mobile phones.

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Many ultra-Orthodox people use so-called kosher phones devices stripped of social media and most other apps at the advice of rabbis.

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