Violent riots erupted in Jerusalem and Beit Shemesh as hundreds of ultra-Orthodox Jewish protesters clashed with Israeli police over plans to conduct autopsies on two infants who died in an unlicensed daycare. Roads were blocked, garbage bins were set on fire, vehicles damaged, and public transport disrupted as police declared the protests illegal. Authorities say the autopsies are crucial to determine whether heat exhaustion and negligence caused the deaths, while religious leaders call the procedure a desecration of the dead. The unrest has intensified tensions between state authorities and ultra-Orthodox communities.