Haredim attack Interior Minister's car in Jerusalem
Eli Yishai is rescued from Mea Shearim by special police after extremist Haredim slash his tires and pelt his car with rocks, eggs.
By Yaniv Kubovich and Liel Kyzer Tags: Israel news Haredim Jerusalem JaffaInterior Minister Eli Yishai's car was attacked by extremist Haredim in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem on Monday evening and special police intervened to rescue Yishai from the attackers.
Neither Yishai and nor anyone in his entourage was hurt in the incident.
Yishai was paying a condolence visit to Rabbi Yosef Shalom Elyashiv, whose daughter passed away. While Yishai was inside the Elyashiv home, extremist Haredim threw eggs and rocks at his parked car and slashed the car's tires. One of Yishai's aides said he was threatened with a knife.
While Yishai was in the home, special police were called to the scene. The police extricated Yishai from the scene in a get-away car.
Elyashiv is the leader of the Lithuanian haredi community.
President Shimon Peres had visited the home earlier in the day without incident.
Also on Monday, dozens of Haredim in Jerusalem created a disturbance in Shabbat Square and blocked traffic in the area. Rioters threw trash cans in the middle of Bar Ilan street.
Jerusalem police were summoned to the scene and dispersed the rioters.
The demonstrators were protesting the detention earlier in the day of 73 Haredi protesters after a demonstration against construction work being done at Andromeda Hill in Jaffa.
The Haredi demonstrators, who also protested at the Jaffa site last week, believe that the area where the construction work is being done was in the past a Jewish cemetery.
Dozens of Haredim have been detained for investigation recently after protests broke out last week against the relocation of human remains in Ashkelon as part of the construction of a new emergency room at Barzilai Hospital.
After Haredim rioted in Shabbat Square on May 16, the Jerusalem municipality cut off services to a number of ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods.
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Interior Minister Eli Yishai |
| Photo by: Hagai Ofen |
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how long is Israelis are going to put up with this jewish cults coaled Haredim and Magna Carta.They are the enemies of Israel! more so then Palestinians, they live of the secular Jews and have demands? What a hucpa! Send them to the army and if they don't wont to go leave or go to jail, why should they be threaded better than others?What they do for Israel beside praying?
They may possess the epitome of Halachic knowledge but unfortunatly they have lost their humanity and along with it their spirituality. They are so biggoted and self rigthous it is painful to see such degradation of an entire jewish community. We must all pray for their enlightenment.
The bring scandal on the whole House of Israel. As for Yishai, what goes around comes around.
Things always have to get worse before they get better. The worse these hooligans behave, the sooner things will get better for the rest. After all, there HAS to come a point when everyone else gets fed up.
For these peasants to protest violently against Eli Yishai while the Rabbi is sitting Shiva is Chillum Hashem so they must therefore apologise to the Rabbi at an appropriate time. May the Rabbi have a long life.
How droll! How justice prevails. Dr. Yishai's Monster is turning upon him
Great news. You reap what you sow!
It's just a slippery slope away. Ever hear about the person who trusted a snake and it bit him? Coddle extremists and they will destroy you. I am a secular humanist. Right wing religious folk deserve their own planet.
Putting Haredim in jail won't help anything but forcing them to have exposure to the outside world might help as well as classes that teach sensitivity to the secular, to other races, to each other, and to other religions. I have spent time in Mea Shearim, lived near it and I think it is time that order is established there so that if anything the Anti-religious cannot use Mea Shearim to justify their bigotry.
This is terrorism, police should deal with Haredim as they deal with other terrorist groups. ...NOW
Israel has spent the last 30 years teaching the Haredi and the Settlers that they are utterly above the law. It is not going to bring them to heel now.
live side by side with non extremist palestinians (and i know lots of them... in fact all the Palestinians i know are the nicest of people) then a country full of Haredim. The real threat is within and we cant even see it.
I prefer living with Palestinians rather than Haredim.
Any group of people are better than these extremists.
Look who we acting like! Is this osmosis?
What are you trying to imply? Who are we beginning to act like? Were you a part of it, if not then why say "we?" To me it seems like they are acting like spoiled little children who need to grow up already and realize there are other people in this world aside from themselves.