Gender-segregated streets in Jerusalem

If they could, I'm sure the Chareidim would put a mechitzah in the womb of women carrying a boy and girl twin

Miriam.

As you probably know - the orthodox wield alot of power in the political arena (the government zionism and the orthodox work hand in hand for establishing more land etc), Some are being given land for free, they have the government around a barrel in many ways. They are also persecuting messianic Jews - with slanderous and libelous posters, large mobs intimidating and using violence, even occasionally using bombs and firebombs - they are a radical bunch of people...

Moshe, that made me laugh!
I used to live in a very frum neighbourhood Down Under, and many was the time when I'd hear male footsteps urgently rushing behind me. Within a half-moment their owners would overtake me and rush onwards. More often than not they were little boys! Clearly, they had been told at a tender age not to have a woman in their sight.
I respected my frum neighbours, and found them very nice people; but I did feel a trifle demeaned by that!
It can be taken to ludicrous extremes, like whan an octogenarian scholar giving a lecture in Israel was asked to do so sitting behind a screen. Of course, some objected to hearing her female voice altogether.

They must suffer in the heat: Big hat, long jackets, long hair...
And the women with their wigs and winter wear on year round!?

Long hair? You mean long beards and pe'ot? Not necessarily sheitels - berets and scarves as well.

Yes Yvetta, I mean beards, pe'ot, sheitels, berets, scarves - the whole shbang!
Israel's mighty hot to be wearing that stuff, maybe their understanding of Torah was lost in translation (down the ages)?

Yet, in Oz in sweltering temperatures of over 80 degrees Fahrenheit, when everyone is wilting and doing the "Australian salute" (i.e. the characteristic motion of waving away a blowfly at virtually every stride), they always manage to look cool!