Thousands of protesters were on the streets on Saturday. Police made 24 arrests and one six-year-old boy was slightly hurt by a stone thrown by protesters.

A 20-year-old was seriously wounded after being hit in the head by a stone, while five police officers were lightly hurt in the violence.

A young charedi demonstrator was injured when he fell from a fence he had climbed.

Labour Knesset member Ophir Paz-Pines later urged Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu to intervene to stop "Jerusalem being turned into Tehran".

Forty protesters were arrested throughout the day for disturbing the peace.

In a major standoff near City Hall, several hundred Orthodox protesters hurled rocks, garbage and glass bottles at police for several hours.

Police broke into the crowd frequently and arrested people they described as instigators, many of them minors. Several of the arrested youths held their black hats in front of TV cameras and prayed aloud as they were dragged to police cars.

At sunset on Friday, thousands of ultra-observant protesters flooded Bar Ilan street, a deeply religious part of town, screaming "Shabbos". The demonstrators surrounded police cars, hitting and kicking them.

One thousand secular Jews held a counter protest at City Hall on Shabbat Some held placards that read: "No Religious Coercion" and "Jerusalem is for everybody".

Knesset member Nitzan Horowitz, of the liberal Meretz party, said at the secular protest: "The struggle for the parking lot is just a symbol for the bigger battle of Jerusalem as a free city and of Israel as a free country."

Police used water cannons to subdue ultra-Orthodox rioters three weeks ago when Jerusalem Mayor Nir Barkat first opened the Carta car park on Saturdays. It was kept closed during the intervening two weeks.

The mayor opened the car park at the request of police who said illegal parking in the nearby Old City was blocking emergency vehicles. The mayor tried to appease ultra-Orthodox concerns by not charging for parking and hiring non-Jews to administer the car park.