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=== 9 October === Hundreds of Jews rioted in [[Nazareth]], breaking windows in a shopping mall and torching two cars. The mayor of [[Karmiel]] was attacked when he tried to calm Jewish citizens there. Arab property in [[Bat Yam]] and [[Petah Tikva]] was vandalized.<ref name=HaaretzTimeline/> A large police force was required to thwart hundreds of demonstrators in Tel Aviv's [[Hatikva]] Quarter and in [[Bat Yam]] from attacking Jaffa.<ref name="Rabinowitz" /> In [[Afula]], roughly 700 Jewish demonstrators blocked Route 65 with boulders, and assaulted a policeman. 100 of the protestors broke off and tried to enter the Arab village of [[Nein]], until police thwarted them.<ref name="Rabinowitz" /> In [[Acre (city)|Acre]], hundreds of Jewish rioters vandalized Arab shops and cars owned by Arabs.<ref name="Rabinowitz" /> The newspaper [[Al-Ittihad (Israeli newspaper)|Al-Ittihad]] reported that four men stabbed an Arab worker on his way to work at a supermarket in [[Rosh HaAyin]]. In [[Jaffa]], a mosque was torched as police looked on.<ref name="Rabinowitz" /> Attempts were made to burn Jewish apartments and two synagogues. In [[Ramla]], a synagogue was torched and traffic was stoned and firebombed. In [[Lod]], a Jewish citizen was shot, a school was burned down, and attempts were made to torch a police station.<ref name=OrOfficial>[http://elyon1.court.gov.il/heb/veadot/or/inside2.htm#e Official Or Report Timeline] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080522125823/http://elyon1.court.gov.il/heb/veadot/or/inside2.htm#e |date=22 May 2008 }} {{in lang|he}}</ref> In Nazareth, a crowd of mourners from the funerals of the two demonstrators killed a day earlier approached the police station and threw rocks and firebombs at it, despite the police's decision to keep all officers inside and out of sight until quiet set in. The police responded with tear-gas; when the stone-throwing continued, the assistant-mayor and two Arab Knesset members on the scene guaranteed a cessation in exchange for a police retreat, which they did. Arab youths also vandalized traffic signals at the Canyon Junction.<ref name=OrOfficial/> In [[Migdal HaEmek]], Jewish residents blocked the main road and stoned cars believed to be owned by Arabs. A number of stoners were detained, and teenagers marched on the police station insisting on their release, with rocks being thrown at police, resulting in one being wounded.<ref name="Rabinowitz" /> Several hundred youth from [[Umm al-Fahm]] stoned dozens of passing vehicles on [[Highway 65 (Israel)|Highway 65]] and vandalized utility poles. The assistant mayor unsuccessfully attempted to stop the youths per agreements with police to avoid their involvement. The police still decided to keep distance, and the Umm-al-Fahm municipality finally cleared debris from the road allowing it to be reopened.<ref name=OrOfficial/>
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