Chaos erupted in Yerushalayim on Motzei Shabbos as Shas MK Yoav Ben Tzur was violently attacked by a mob of extremist chareidim while leaving the weekly shiur of Hagaon HaRav Yitzchak Yosef. The rioters targeted the lawmaker over his party’s apparent backing of the coalition’s Chareidi conscription bill.
According to Galei Tzahal reporter Daniel Grovais, a simultaneous protest was also held outside the home of UTJ MK Yaakov Asher, where demonstrators clashed with police.
Witnesses say the pack surrounding Ben Tzur’s car went completely out of control—smashing the windshield, hurling garbage bags, jumping on the vehicle, and ripping off the license plate. Police officers eventually managed to extract Ben Tzur from what onlookers described as an attempted lynching, with claims that he was beaten and had various objects thrown at him.
Shas released a statement condemning the attack, calling it “a severe act of violence carried out by a small group of rioters,” adding that such behavior is a chillul Hashem and “not the way of the Torah.”
Opposition leader Yair Lapid also spoke out, saying the assault “is not the way of the Torah and not the way of the State of Israel,” and calling for the attackers to be dealt with harshly.
Police confirmed the details in an official statement, saying dozens of rioters ambushed an elected official, damaged his vehicle, and threw garbage bags at him. Officers from the Lev HaBira station and Border Police rescued him without injury, though the vehicle sustained damage.
Police added that forces dispersed the attackers, are hunting down suspects, and consider the attack a serious attempt to harm a public official.
More details will be published as they become available.
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Immediately release every בחור from prison, to vacate the prison space for these filthy hooligans.
Whilst at it, time for Herzog to pardon Prime Minister Bibi Netanyahu as per the פסק of the venerated President Donald Trump שליט”א in order to keep even more prison space available for these wicked evil hooligans
I just wonder how we expect the Secular State to know better.
They should pull forces out of Gaza to assist in the hunt.
What has their Torah learning taught them???
Yoav Ben Tzur is a tzaddik. In shul, in the street, or at work in the knesset. He is a real mentsch and a real tzaddik.
these cowards are brave enough when they’re fighting fellow jews. it’s too bad the politicians will let them go without proper punishment.
We should hang them all on their own “Etz”. I don’t know how we let these Etz crazies be considered normal in America, and when they protest gedolim and campaign against them we look the other way. Now it’s MKs – soon it will be gedolim. (Not that what they’ve already been doing against gedolim is any better than this….)
Joseph Goebbels,
You should be tuned over to Germany for prosecution as an anti-Semitic Nazi, just like your close relative was. You’re not even Jewish.
They should be caught and dropped off in Shuafat so that the Arabs can take care of them.
I don’t see the same hatred going toward secular leftist protesters when they get violence but hey people like to hate on religious people more usually. If people actually knew how much dirty politics went behind what was called the hostages and missing people forum, it was anything but an advocate for the families
If we had a “Real Jewish Torah State” with a King and a Sanhedrin and real Shoftim veShotrim, and some wild kids would do something like this, what would happen? They would probably be arrested and get some Makkos Mardus on their rear end… There are lots of things wrong with the secular State, and even with the Chareidi politicians, but on which planet is this Kosher behavior?