Umm el-Fahm:
A march by a small group of Jewish extremists through an Israeli Arab town touched off clashes between residents and police on Wednesday.
Residents of Umm el-Fahm called the 30-minute march - the second by extremists in the town in the past year and a half - a provocation.
Hundreds of police had deployed in the town after Israel's Supreme Court authorised some 60 ultranationalist Jewish activists to march on its outskirts.
Some of the roughly 350 Israeli Arabs who had gathered in anticipation of the rally started throwing rocks at police when they thought the rally had begun.
Police dispersed the crowd with tear gas and stun grenades.
Ten people were arrested, though no serious injuries were reported, police said.
March organisers apparently targeted the town because it is one of Israel's largest Arab communities and is known as a stronghold of the radical
Arab nationalist Islamic Movement.
The Jewish militants are admirers of Meir Kahane, a US-born rabbi who preached that Palestinians should be expelled from Israel and the West Bank.
An Arab gunman assassinated Kahane at a New York hotel 20 years ago.
March organisers said the activists came to Umm el-Fahm to demand that the Israeli government outlaw the Islamic Movement just as it did to Kahane's Kach Party.
Residents of Umm el-Fahm called the 30-minute march - the second by extremists in the town in the past year and a half - a provocation.
Hundreds of police had deployed in the town after Israel's Supreme Court authorised some 60 ultranationalist Jewish activists to march on its outskirts.
Some of the roughly 350 Israeli Arabs who had gathered in anticipation of the rally started throwing rocks at police when they thought the rally had begun.
Police dispersed the crowd with tear gas and stun grenades.
Ten people were arrested, though no serious injuries were reported, police said.
March organisers apparently targeted the town because it is one of Israel's largest Arab communities and is known as a stronghold of the radical
Arab nationalist Islamic Movement.
The Jewish militants are admirers of Meir Kahane, a US-born rabbi who preached that Palestinians should be expelled from Israel and the West Bank.
An Arab gunman assassinated Kahane at a New York hotel 20 years ago.
March organisers said the activists came to Umm el-Fahm to demand that the Israeli government outlaw the Islamic Movement just as it did to Kahane's Kach Party.
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