A deadly tragedy unfolded Tuesday afternoon in Yerushalayim, when a bus plowed into a group of Chareidi protesters during a large anti-draft demonstration, killing at least one person and injuring several others.
The incident occurred at the intersection of Yirmiyahu and Shamgar streets, where members of the Eida HaChareidis had gathered for a hafganah protesting military conscription.
Emergency medical personnel rushed to the scene and began treating victims immediately. While several demonstrators suffered light to moderate injuries, one 14-year-old bochur, Yosef Eisenthal z”l, became trapped under the bus and was tragically niftar at the scene.
The bus driver was detained by police at the scene.
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Arab or Leftist? Who was the driver???
ה’ ישמור
השם ירחם
I just saw a campaign that was posted to help a bocur get out of
IDF Jail.
לתועלת הרבים
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Hareidi “rabbis” who encourage lawlessness must own this tragedy.
These hoodlums are not learning Torah, not working, not serving in the army, not contributing anything to society.
There is absolutely no excuse for hoodlums to be blocking the streets where ambulances and other emergency vehicles must get through.
These hoodlums are inciting hatred against all religious Jews, including the many who oppose lawlessness and thuggery.
honestly think it would best if we all just pretend this didnt happen. what are the chances that no more bad things will come because of this. the media should force no commenting on this story
Please add graphic footage to the title- i was shocked to see the video with the killing
i would not have looked.
we have seen enough- this is not gentle footage
Plows into “Chareidim”?
What website is this?
PLAY STUPID GAMES WIN STUPID PRIZES. And I am saying that as a supporter of Neturei Karta, which these phonies endangering their lives are clearly not.
It’s exactly Haaretz type of inciting the public against Haredim.
The hypocrisuly of racist-Haaretzism:
On one hand, Haaretz casts Arab racism terror as “feeedom fighting,” and seeking to impress the world, it fabricates fake news to defame the IDF who fight genocidal “Palestine” leadership. On the other, it hammers Haredim (Talmud scholars pious Jews, who, mostly, don’t even carry weapons)) to join the IDF .
@RightJew
Shame on you,
Yes they do learn and they listen to there daas Torah (if you know what that means as from your words you sound like some MO) to go out to protest
They comtribute by their torah learning more than anything as is known that the holy chazon ish told lehavdil ben gurion שר”י as he was able to persuade him to leave the yeshiva bochrim
Shame on your language to speak such language on holy jewish people
Regarding blocking the roads there was permits for the protest and everyone is allowed to speak their opinion in a democratic country!!
Perhaps something about the burning fires and fear of masses of “pious Jews” violently pounding his bus and screaming curses at him made the driver panic or snap.
Terrible, avoidable tragedy.
Driver was arrested, as he should have been.
Hoping that Haredi leaders will consider what steps they could take to teach their followers not set fires, leap onto buses, and not curse and scream at passers-by.
People blaming protesters for an Arab driving into them. Shame on these despicable excuses for Jews
Both side should have listened to the Posuk in Koheles that says
אַל־תִּרְשַׁ֥ע הַרְבֵּ֖ה וְאַל־תְּהִ֣י סָכָ֑ל לָ֥מָּה תָמ֖וּת בְּלֹ֥א עִתֶּֽךָ
(Do not be overly wicked, and do not be a fool; why should you die before your time?)
Everyone should now follow a few pesukim earlier that says
וְהַחַ֖י יִתֵּ֥ן אֶל־לִבּֽוֹ…
I bet you they’ll be right out there doing it again tomorrow
Living in Yerushalayim and seeing these hafganos live, I can’t help but wonder how this hasn’t happened before!
Rightjew,
It was a 13 year old, you want 13 year olds to go to the army?
The hands of the wicked supreme court is QUITE LITERALLY dripping with Jewish Blood:- This tragedy 100% solely their fault.
Right Jew most people there were not houdlums or anything close to it, most if not all you don’t know what you’re talking about they were lomdei Torah very big ones too
When ayalon highway was blocked every day how come there were no rammings
You are a hater
@RightJew
Take everything you just said and spit it back at all Zionists:
These hoodlums are inciting hatred against all Jews, including the many who oppose zionism.
גואל הדם הוא ירצח את הרוצח בפגעו בו
מי לה’ אלי
I tell you every frum chareidi faithful Jew that is true to his religion and true to God must leave the state of Israel ASAP the agenda of the state is too slowly eradicate the from ultra orthodox chareidi Jews leave while you can.
I hardly have any words..not only is what happened devastating…some comments here are disgusting and show that most Jews in chul have long ago disconnected from their Jewish hearts and think like goim
You have no feeling or understanding of what is happening in Eretz Hakodesh and why there was a protest…
It seems that this bochur had nothing to do with the blockade of this bus, he was struck on Shamgar and the other kvutzah stopped the bus on Yirmiyahu. He was (as it seems) crossing the road.
Yossi Name Edited:
just hours after the simchas torah massacre, despicable Neturei Karta took to the streets to support “Palestinians”. But even they had the tact not to rejoice at the murder of Jews.
You, yossi name edited, are the low of the low. I’ve never heard ever in Jewish history, of a Jew publicaly saying “play stupid games win stupid prizes” at the violent death of a 14 year old Jewish boy. You are trash. You are Erev Rav. I don’t know who you are behind the keyboard, but I will be davening that Hashem smites you down, and you don’t wake up tomorrow morning.
@(un) TruthfulMentch
You are a perfect example of the loss of critical thinking in the Hareidi community and its replacement with dishonest delusional group think which ultimately destroys Judaism.
Citation from a letter posted on the Matzav Inbox:
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“I was there tonight at the draft protest in Yerushalayim. I am not repeating rumors, headlines, or social media hysteria. I watched it unfold with my own eyes. I am a chareidi grandmother, and what I saw was shameful, reckless, and utterly leaderless.
Hundreds of boys — children — were running wild in the streets. They were jumping on buses and cars, blocking traffic, and preventing drivers from moving.
There were no parents in sight. No rabbonim. No roshei yeshiva. No adults taking responsibility. No one stopping this disgraceful chaos.
Garbage bins were dragged into the road and set on fire. Plastic sheets were slapped across bus windshields, blinding drivers until they struggled to rip them off. Buses full of chareidi passengers were stuck for twenty minutes or more, held hostage by unsupervised, out-of-control boys who clearly had no idea what they were doing or the danger they were creating.
The bus drivers tried — desperately — to maneuver through the madness without hurting anyone. They were surrounded, harassed, blocked, and endangered. This was not a “peaceful protest.” It was anarchy.”
וְעָנ֖וּ וְאָֽמְר֑וּ יָדֵ֗ינוּ לֹ֤א שָֽׁפְכוּ֙ (כתיב שפכה֙) אֶת־הַדָּ֣ם הַזֶּ֔ה וְעֵינֵ֖ינוּ לֹ֥א רָאֽוּ: is the correct words.
doom777 – your vile language and vicious curses against me prove not only what Chazal state – כל הפוסל במומו פוסל – but also what my heroes from Neturei Karta wrote on their posters: Jews are not Zionists and ZIONISTS ARE NOT JEWS!! The fact that you are willing to curse a fellow Yid demonstrates beyond a shadow of a doubt that all of the lip service you pay to “ahavat yisrael” is just an empty slogan where it is only your fellow Zionist reshaim whom you love.
Now to answer your flawed logic (or lack thereof), I certainly didn’t ח”ו rejoice in the death of the poor young bochur, just like I didn’t rejoice in the death of 45 Jews in the Meron disaster of 2021. But if you are wondering who else says “play stupid games win stupid prizes”, it is none other than the Torah itself that states ונשמרתם מאוד לנפשותיכם, and Chazal who clarify – “הכל בידי שמיים חוץ מצינים ופחים.” Being a self-righteous holier-than-thou haredi and paying lip-service to following the infallible daas Torah of the (exclusively Litvish) gedolim is not a license to endanger your life and the life of others, no matter what the screaming headlines of haredi propaganda outlets write.
And in fact, the gedolim themselves warned of such reckless behavior. When Rav Amram Blau asked the Brisker Rav zt”l why he doesn’t lay on the streets to stop traffic in frum neighborhoods on Shabbos, the Brisker Rav answered that it’s because davka the Zionists are indeed capable of murder.
So if you – doom777 – want to be a bigger tzadik than the Brisker Rav, that’s your silly choice, but don’t curse at me because I am the one who is following TRUE daas Torah.
(P.S. You are חייב to ask mechila from the holy tzadikim of Neturei Karta שליט”א for calling them “despicable – afra lepumei!)