Pedestrians summoned police on Monday afternoon at Jerusalem�s Kikar Tzion after seeing a weapon partially exposed among the belongings of a panhandler who was working the area.
Apparently, at some point the beggar waved the weapon at a chareidi male for reasons that remain unclear, but this prompted bystanders to summon police. Police went through the beggar�s belongings and quickly learned that the man was an Arab disguised as a Jew for the purpose of obtaining money from passersby. The weapon was a teargas gun. The man was taken into custody.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This is just another reminder that one should be judiciously careful in who one gives “tzedoka” to. When I was last in Yerushalayim I was about to give to someone when I was told that he is a goy and reputedly mentally unstable; he is worth a lot of money but hassles people daily. Of course he had a kipa on and had flowing tzitzis. Going to daven one morning I saw a meshulach getting out of a rental car with a jaunty look to him. Once he got into the Beis Hamedrash he had disheveled his collar and was looking like a real nebuch. And no, it wasn’t the cheapest grade of rental car either.
1. I hear what you are saying but as someone who has done his share of car rentals I will inform you that many many times the rate for the “not the cheapest” looking car is actually LESS than the rate of a midsize. Another possibility of what could have happened was they upgraded him.