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Dozens of attacks and only seven charges: four months of violence against protesters against Netanyahu
Thousands of people take part in weekly protests across the country against government corruption and the prime minister.
From north to south, protesters encountered violent protesters who beat, stabbed and sprayed them with tear gas.
Assault suspects have been arrested, but so far only a few indictments have been filed - and only one has reached jail.
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Liran Levy, Maya Horodnichano, Yoav Itiel, Yanir Yagana and Eli Ashkenazi
Tuesday, October 27, 2020, 9:15 p.m.
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In the video: Demonstrators attacked in Bat Galim neighborhood in Haifa (Walla! NEWS system)
Four months ago, widespread protests began across the country against Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and government corruption.
Every week, thousands of demonstrators go out to protest at intersections, bridges and squares from north to south, as well as in the main demonstration centers in front of the prime minister's residence in Jerusalem and his private home in Caesarea.
In recent weeks, there have been dozens of serious attacks against protesters against Netanyahu.
Her mind in the Gaza Strip was stabbed in the neck, a demonstrator in Jerusalem wore a pink bandana and was beaten with a glass bottle, her mind in Tel Aviv was run over and injured in the leg and in Haifa the life of a demonstrator was threatened.
For all those incidents, only seven indictments have been filed so far, one of which has reached the sentencing stage.
The chronicle in front of you describes a terrible reality, in which one case of violence haunts another case of violence.
Here are the main events.
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Dozens of assaults, individual indictments.
Demonstrators in front of the Prime Minister's Residence in Jerusalem, July (Photo: Reuven Castro)
June
June 27: Tear of tear gas at demonstrators at Binyamina junction
Protesters against Netanyahu at Binyamina junction were attacked with tear gas by a man who arrived in a vehicle.
He zigzagged between lanes, got out of his car and chanted slogans against them and in favor of the prime minister.
He then sprayed tear gas at a couple in their 70s and a young man, who was being treated at a hospital.
Two days later, police announced that they had arrested a suspect in the act, who was released without being brought to court.
July
July 23: Protesters in Jerusalem testify that La Familia activists attacked them
in a demonstration against Netanyahu held near the prime minister's residence. Six demonstrators claimed that right-wing activists, identified by them as members of La Familia, physically attacked them with kicks and spitting.
Several suspects were arrested by police, and released on restrictive conditions.
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July 25: Stabbing of a demonstrator at Nir Am junction, spraying a wave of pepper at demonstrators in Ramat Gan, attacking her brain with a helmet and a glass bottle in the area of Paris Square
that Saturday, about 20 residents of the kibbutzim near Sderot demonstrated at Nir Am junction.
Several participants were attacked during the demonstration and one of the demonstrators, Nir Saar, was stabbed and slightly injured in the neck and needed medical treatment.
"From 18:30 we were at the intersection and demonstrated," he said, "there was a very calm demonstration, and we were with the children. When we came to fold, two people came, tore the sign wildly and then started pushing us. They punched us, ambushed us, spat on us and attacked us. "They literally crowded in front of my friend, I saw them pushing him so I went to him - and then I felt a stab in the neck in the back. I did not understand what it was and I continued, because I feared for the friend's safety, then I realized they stabbed me."
Saar filed a complaint with the police.
Police arrested several suspects on suspicion of assault and a few days later an indictment was filed against Felix Ilyaev, a 22-year-old Sderot resident
at the Aluf Sadeh intersection in Ramat Gan, protesters complained to police that they were sprayed with pepper spray from a passing vehicle.
There were no casualties, and police opened an investigation.
Last week, an indictment was filed against a 34-year-old city resident.
Stabbing of a demonstrator at the Negev Gate, July 25
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In the video: A demonstrator against Netanyahu was stabbed and slightly injured in the Gaza Strip (Photo: Yanir Yagna)
On the evening of that Saturday in late July, thousands of protesters arrived in the Balfour area.
Alongside the protests, there were a series of assaults against demonstrators, one of the most prominent of which was that of a demonstrator wearing a pink bandana, and his assailants called out to him that he had no right to demonstrate in Jerusalem.
Then, according to eyewitnesses at the scene, they beat him with a helmet and broke a glass bottle on his body.
Six suspects were arrested.
In addition, protesters who were in the area of Paris Square reported that boys called out to them "only Bibi", kicked them and threatened to stab them with a knife.
July 28: A demonstrator was stabbed on Fourth Street in Tel Aviv
At the end of July, a demonstration began in front of the home of Minister of Internal Security Amir Ohana in Tel Aviv, and from there the demonstrators marched around the city during which Maccabi Tel Aviv fans allegedly attacked the protesters.
One of the protesters, who asked to remain anonymous, said that "when we reached Fourth Street, between ten and 15 protesters appeared in black shirts, and started beating with everything nearby - chairs, bottles, glass - everything they could. Blood was spilled there."
He added that "as soon as they became a minority they started fleeing, scattering tear gas all over the street."
Five of the demonstrators needed medical treatment at the hospital, and two of the demonstrators were stabbed in the back.
Four suspects were arrested by police during the events on suspicion of disturbing public order and assault.
The Magistrate's Court released the suspects under house arrest and removed them from the focus of the demonstrations.
The police investigation was completed and the case against the suspects was transferred for review and decision by the State Attorney's Office, which has not yet decided whether to file indictments against them.
Attack on protesters in Tel Aviv, July 29 (Photo: Assaf Shafir)
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In the video: Documentation of the attack on the demonstrators against Netanyahu in Tel Aviv (Author: Assaf Shafir)
August
August 2: A man threw stones at demonstrators in Haifa and wounded one of them
. 36-year-old Dennis Potodinsky from Haifa threw stones at a group of demonstrators standing at a charming intersection in the city, injuring a resident of Nesher who passed by.
According to the indictment filed against him, he also attacked the police officers who arrested him with curses, threats and racist remarks.
Last week, he was sentenced to eight months in prison - the first sentence imposed on protesters against Netanyahu.
August 8: Spraying material at demonstrators in Eilat
During a protest demonstration in the tourist square in Eilat, several demonstrators complained that a passing vehicle sprayed material on them, apparently pepper spray or tear gas.
Police officers who arrived at the scene verified the report, and an investigation was opened - which is still ongoing - in order to find the people who sprayed the gas.
August 19: A bottle was thrown at a demonstrator at the Kfar Tavor
junction
At the Kfar Tavor
junction, a bottle full of ice was thrown at a demonstrator.
A complaint was filed with the police, and according to the testimonies, a suspect, a resident of Afula, was arrested for 24 hours - and then released.
His attorney, Attorney Wasim Shehadeh of the Public Defender's Office, said the suspect denied the act attributed to him.
About ten days later he was released under house arrest.
Throwing stones at a group of demonstrators in Haifa, August 2
August 29: A young man waving in front of the demonstrators with a dummy gun at the boat interchange At the
end of August, the demonstrators of the black flags at the boat interchange in Herzliya were attacked by a young man who passed by in a passing vehicle and threatened what appeared to be a gun.
The incident was even documented and a day later the police arrested two brothers from Ariel, and then it turned out to be a plastic dummy gun.
One suspect was released, while his brother, who was documented hoisting the gun at the protesters, was brought to the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court, where his detention was extended by three days and he was later released on restrictive conditions.
No indictment has been filed against him so far.
Pulling out the dummy gun at protesters at the boat interchange, August 30th
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In the video: Pulls out a gun on protesters against Netanyahu at the boat interchange (Photo: Walla! NEWS system, edited by: Itai Amram)
September
September 6: A cup of cold coffee was thrown at protesters in Hadera, and vehicles were vandalized
at the Hadera police junction. A cup of cold coffee was thrown at protesters, and Olga Bridge protesters found at the end of the demonstration sabotaging their cars by smashing windows and punching tires.
Following this, a complaint was filed with the Hadera police.
September 17: Protesters in Misgav complained about an attempt to run over
protesters at the Kornit-Neighbor intersection in Misgav testified that a driver tried to run over them.
A police force arrived at the scene and collected evidence.
Since then, a photo has been published from the Facebook page of the black flags, in which you can see the sign of the tire of the car they were driving on the square.
September 20: A demonstrator in support of Netanyahu was knocked down by the
police Police arrested two protesters against Netanyahu, a man and a boy, near the Balfour encampment, on suspicion of knocking down a demonstrator in support of the prime minister and causing injuries.
Last week, police filed an indictment against the two.
Shai Erel, 62, who was arrested that day on suspicion of the same assault, said he did not know an indictment had been filed against him.
At the court hearing, his defense attorney said he asked the same woman to get off the chair several times until he took him, and that he called the police.
The boy, a 16-year-old resident of Ashdod, is accused of punching the same woman.
Attackers of protesters in the Shapira neighborhood, in Tel Aviv, September 26 (Photo: Reuters)
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In the video: Attacking demonstrators in the Shapira neighborhood of Tel Aviv (Editing: Shaul Adam)
September 26: Protesters are attacked with helmets in Tel Aviv, a bottle thrown at a protest in Jerusalem,
according to the protesters, rejoiced in the Shapira neighborhood in Tel Aviv, motorcyclists threatened to run over them, and then began beating them with a helmet and kicks.
They also reported that the attackers shouted "King Bibi" and shouted various insults.
"They just blew them up and parents were in a complete panic on the sidewalk as soon as they went to separate them," one of them recounted.
Another violent incident took place in Jerusalem, when a man threw a bottle at a protest convoy of protesters.
He then resisted arrest and assaulted police officers, injuring one of them.
October
October 1: A rider hits a demonstrator in Tel Aviv, a flame retardant is sprayed at protesters in Pardes Hanna
during a protest march held in Tel Aviv, a Mazda driver accelerated and drove toward protesters near Menachem Begin Road in the city.
One of them was injured but did not need medical attention.
The incident was documented, and suspect Pini Luzon turned himself in to police station a few hours later.
His detention has been extended from time to time by the Tel Aviv Magistrate's Court and he is currently under house arrest.
"I landed on my right foot, received a blow to the abdomen from the vehicle and a blow from the road on my right foot," said Dorit Zak, who was hit by Luzon's vehicle. "An ambulance was standing 20 meters away.
There was nothing between me and him, and he did not even bother to contact me. "
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In the video: Documentation of the demonstrations in Tel Aviv (Walla NEWS system!)
Luzon claimed at a hearing to extend his detention that he was himself attacked by protesters, apparently after honking at them, and therefore fled the scene.
He denied harming protesters on ideological grounds.
Police have not yet completed the investigation, and at this stage it is not known when an indictment will be filed.
That evening, protesters near Meged Square in Pardes Hanna claimed to have been sprayed with flame retardant.
Documentation distributed on the network shows a vehicle passing by the protesters standing on the side of the road, and according to the suspicion, material from a fire extinguisher is sprayed at them.
Two weeks later, a 31-year-old resident of the place was arrested - who was released without being brought to court.
Demonstrator attacked in front of sheltered housing in Tel Aviv, October 3 (Photo: The Black Flags)
October 3: The deputy mayor of Netanya received blows and was injured in the ribs, attempted trampling in Haifa and beatings of a demonstrator in Pardes Hanna. The
deputy mayor of Netanya, Ephraim Bolmesh, was beaten by a man who even threw stones at demonstrators on Einstein Street in the city.
Although the incident was partially documented, Bulmesh, 67, chose not to complain to police.
"If the police want - the whole area is networked with cameras," he told Walla!
NEWS The day after the attack.
Bulmash said he did not attach much importance to the blow he suffered, but at night he was attacked by excruciating pain and in the morning he was evacuated to the trauma department at the HMO, where a crack in his rib was discovered.
"My goal as I see it is to stop this madhouse and open a dialogue, because otherwise we're here in a civil war. Instead of firing a gun - spitting."
Police did not arrest the man who was documented committing violence in that incident.
Elderly woman pushed in Haifa, bottle thrown in Ramat Gan, October 3 (Photo: Reuters)
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In the video: Protesters report violence in demonstrations against Netanyahu (Photo: Or Ravid and Itamar Cohen, edited by Shaul Adam)
This Saturday, several violent incidents also took place against demonstrators in the Haifa area.
In the city, firecrackers were thrown at demonstrators who were holding a procession in the Hadar HaCarmel neighborhood.
Ten days later, the police detained for questioning a 17-year-old Haifa resident who was released on unspecified restrictive conditions.
Police said that "their findings show that there was no intention to harm the demonstrators and no casualties were reported in the incident. All the evidence will be forwarded for review and the prosecution will be decided accordingly."
That evening, at the end of a demonstration in Neve Tut Square in Pardes Hanna, Guy Lev, a 48-year-old social activist and resident of the community, was attacked and his hand was broken.
"They blew me up with kicks and punches. Then they grabbed me, dragged me to my car, and forced me to drive away," he said.
An ambulance evacuated him to Hillel Yaffe Hospital.
Police were called to the scene, and the investigation continues.
The beatings suffered by Guy Lev in Pardes Hanna (Photo: courtesy of those photographed)
October 10: Eggs, cans and pebbles were thrown at protesters in Jerusalem.
Protesters at one of the intersections in Jerusalem were threatened by boys, one of whom also tried to take the flags they were holding.
At another intersection in the city, protesters reported that eggs, cans and pebbles were thrown at them.
Protesters in Nahariya also complained that a man who passed by with a scooter tried to run over them while stepping on the sidewalk.
October 13: Protesters in Holon sprayed with tear gas
Protesters against Netanyahu were sprayed with tear gas at the Meditech complex in Holon.
Four young men, aged 25-22, were arrested during the protest on suspicion of disorderly conduct, with one of them suspected of attacking the protesters by spraying tear gas.
The four were brought in for questioning at the police station, and a few days later were released on restrictive conditions.
Spray tear gas at demonstrators in Holon, October 13
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In the video: Protesters against Netanyahu attacked in Holon and in Jerusalem (Walla! NEWS system)
October 15: One of the leaders of the protest was attacked in Holon, tear gas was sprayed on demonstrators
Sadi Ben Sheetrit, one of the leaders of the "Crimea Minister" movement and one of the prominent protesters claimed to have been violently attacked during a demonstration in Holon, where he was staying with his eight-year-old son.
He filed a complaint at the city police station.
That evening, two boys were detained for questioning on suspicion of spraying tear gas at protesters in Kugel Square in the city.
October 17: A series of violent incidents in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa and the Krayot
during a march that left Balfour, protesters were attacked and, among other things, eggs and cans were thrown at them. An 18-year-old resident was arrested and found stabbed. He shouted at the protesters. Glass and assaulted an undercover policeman. During the interrogation he said he acted in self-defense. The court extended his detention for a day.
At the Petah junction in the capital, where protesters have been attacked several times in recent weeks, a young man was arrested on suspicion of threatening and throwing eggs and stone. He confessed to the offenses. In
Jaffa, two protesters were hit by pepper spray sprayed at them from a vehicle traveling on Yefet Street. A 24-year-old man suspected of the act was arrested, and an indictment was filed against him last week. Additional incidents were recorded in the city: A 19-year-old courier was arrested on Nordau Boulevard in Tel Aviv. An electric bicycle on suspicion of spraying pepper spray on protesters Another suspect, 54, was arrested on Kaufman Street in the city on suspicion of cursing protesters and violently attacking one of them
Attack on protesters in Haifa, October 17
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In the video: Attacking demonstrators against Netanyahu in Haifa (Editing: Itai Amram)
In the Bat Galim neighborhood of Haifa, protesters were beaten, and death threats were made against one of them while moving a finger over his throat.
The suspect even addressed one of the protesters with an explicit threat "they will reach her", stating her street address and house number.
Another demonstrator spat.
A day later, police arrested a 25-year-old city suspect in
Kiryat Ata, a demonstrator was attacked with death threats and a stone was thrown at him.
"Two young men arrived at the scene in a car and zigzagged between the protesters, approaching them dangerously, photographing them and almost crushing them," said Assi (pseudonym. He previously held a public office in the city). "After I drove them away, one threw a stone at my face, and luckily "I instinctively raised my hand and defended them and snatched the injury to my arm, otherwise I would have been left without an eye."
He said, "Before they left, they threatened me that one of them would stab me."
That evening, the police arrested three residents of Kiryat Yam on suspicion of harassing protesters from a vehicle they were traveling on the streets of Haifa.
The three, Yaron Hanayev, 24, Ran Mishiev, 21, and Itai Ben Ami, 19, who are suspected of driving, are suspected of spraying pepper spray at protesters in various places in the city, and throwing food scraps at the protesters.
Police claimed that a search of the vehicle turned up Ella and pepper sprays and that a knife was found next to him.
The vehicle was confiscated and the court denied a request for his release, but although police requested an extension of the three-day detention by five days, the court ordered their release on remand from demonstrations, after only a few hours of detention extension.
Likud supporter in Haifa (Photo: Yoav Itiel)
October 24: A woman is beaten with a stick in Haifa, threats with an electric shock and a bicycle crash in Tel Aviv
A series of violent incidents occurred during Saturday night demonstrations across the country, following which police arrested and detained a total of six suspects, including a 17-year-old boy
. By an unknown person in a passing vehicle who hit her with a stick and fled.
Police launched a manhunt for the vehicle, whose identity is known.
No arrests have been reported so far in this case.
The attacked demonstrator, a lawyer and lecturer at a 56-year-old college, detailed the incident to Walla!
NEWS and said that "the feeling is of shock, mostly mental".
"We were standing along the sidewalk and the vehicle was approaching, with the passenger holding the Likud flag on a 2-meter-long stick from the window, and then when he passed us he just hit me without me being prepared for it at all. I went into a slight shock," she said.
"My husband says that he managed to see him laughing while the vehicle was driving away. This has not happened to me yet, but a demonstrator next to me told me that they spat on her. We gave the vehicle number to the policeman who said he would transfer it to the vehicle."
Protest organizers in Haifa later reported further harassment of protesters.
In the Horev Center, there was an incident of a water bottle being thrown at the demonstrators standing there.
No one was hurt.
That evening, at the Meditech plaza in Holon, a 17-year-old boy was detained on suspicion of throwing an egg at protesters.
In Tel Aviv, three young men, about 26 years old, threatened protesters with a shocker and fled.
They were stopped in the area shortly afterwards.
In addition, on Ibn Gvirol Street, police arrested an 18-year-old man on suspicion of trying to run over protesters while riding an electric bicycle, and another young man of the same age was arrested after he tried to burst onto the stage and disrupt public order.
Dozens of assaults, seven indictments
The police prosecution division has so far filed seven indictments for assaulting protesters.
The first indictment was filed at the end of July against Felix Ilyaev, for attacking the demonstrator Nir Saar at the Sha'ar Hanegev junction.
In the second case, at the end of July, the police filed an indictment against Dennis Potodinsky, who threw stones at a group of demonstrators standing at a charming intersection in Haifa, injuring a resident of Nesher who passed by.
According to the charges against him, he also attacked police officers who arrested him while cursing and threatening.
Last week he was sentenced to eight months in prison.
Two more indictments have been filed against defendants who attacked a demonstrator in Jerusalem in support of Netanyahu.
According to the indictment, Shai Erel was charged with assault causing actual injury after pulling the chair on which the woman was standing and causing her to fall.
In addition, a 16-year-old from Ashdod is accused of punching the same woman at the same event.
The fifth indictment filed by the police was against a resident of Ramat Gan who sprayed pepper spray at demonstrators at the Aluf Sadeh junction in the city.
The defendant drove the vehicle, passed the protest participants and sprayed them with gas.
The sixth indictment concerns a protest that took place in Tel Aviv about two weeks ago.
The defendant, 54, came to a demonstration on Kaufman Street under the influence of alcohol, shouted at the protesters, insulted and attacked one of them by punching him in the face and injuring him with his hand.
A seventh indictment was filed last week, against a 24-year-old man from Bat Yam, who was accused of spraying pepper spray on two demonstrators on October 17 on Yefet Street in Jaffa, and fled the scene.
Demonstrators on the Jabotinsky axis, Saturday night (Photo: Reuven Castro)
The State Attorney's Office stated that "most cases of violence against demonstrators are handled by the police prosecution, and the State Attorney's Office has not yet filed indictments for such incidents in the current wave of protests. However, at least three cases are currently being investigated by the Tel Aviv and Haifa District Attorneys." The Tel Aviv Cinematheque at the end of July, the crash during the demonstration in Tel Aviv at the beginning of this month, and the throwing of explosives at demonstrators in Hadera in August. "
What are the demonstrations about?
The demonstrators are protesting against Netanyahu's continued tenure while being charged with crimes, claiming, among other things, that he cannot separate his personal and legal good from his political decisions.
The prime minister is charged with three counts.
In the 1000 case
(the benefit benefits case), Netanyahu is accused of receiving benefits worth about NIS 700,000 from businessmen Arnon Milchen and James Packer, while he served as prime minister.
The main gifts were cigars, champagne packages and jewelry.
In addition, it was alleged that Netanyahu acted in favor of Milchen in three matters, in which the businessman sought his intervention: he approached US Secretary of State John Kerry to extend the businessman's visa, he approached Finance Minister Yair Lapid to extend the exemption. A tax for returning residents, and he worked to promote a merger of "Keshet" and "Reshet" - ostensibly at Milchen's request.
According to the lawsuit, these acts damaged the public service's image and public trust in it.
In this case, Netanyahu is accused of
fraud
and
breach of trust
.
The 2000 case
(the Netanyahu-Mozes affair) deals with talks between Netanyahu and Yedioth Ahronoth publisher Noni Mozes. In those talks, the two allegedly discussed the benefit of the prime minister's coverage of the Yedioth group, in exchange for imposing restrictions on the newspaper's main competitor - Israel Today. The person who proposed the deal was Mozes, so he is accused of bribery. On the other hand, the ombudsman was also convinced that Netanyahu did not intend to complete the bribe deal, but continued the talks with Mozes to improve his coverage in the Yedioth group, and even took certain actions.
In this case, Netanyahu is accused of
fraud
and
breach of trust
.
The 4000 case
(Bezeq-Walla affair) The most serious case for the prime minister concerns regulatory benefits worth hundreds of millions of shekels, which Netanyahu allegedly granted to Elowitz.
In return, according to the indictment, Elovich acted to skew the coverage on the Walla!
NEWS, which was under his control.
In this case, Netanyahu is accused of
bribery
.
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