MK (Bayit Yehudi) Rabbi Hillel Horowitz was targeted by terrorists who attacked his vehicle with stones in Yerushalayim. The rookie MK was traveling both to and from Har HaZeisim for a memorial for the late Prime Minister Menachem Begin when attacked. On the way back following the memorial, Horowitz stopped the vehicle and ran after the attackers. B�chasdei Hashem he and his passengers escaped injuries.

Horowitz calls on Israel Police to increase its presence in the area and to take a more aggressive approach to law-enforcement against those responsible for the rock attacks. �A week after the petira of Adele Biton we should be more cognizant regarding the life-threatening dangers of such attacks� state Horowitz.

Horowitz added �Yesterday the mayor of Yerushalayim responded to an attack http://www.theyeshivaworld.com/news/headlines-breaking-stories/286759/identity-of-jerusalem-stabbing-attack-victim.html but he cannot be in every place every time. The police must act more aggressively in the eastern capital to prevent the next tragedy, which almost occurred today� he concluded.

Horowitz was appointed to fill the MK slot of the late Uri Orbach. He is a veteran resident of Hebron�s Jewish community.

(YWN � Israel Desk, Jerusalem)