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L. It's not: The student who has been sexually harassed by her driving instructor demands that he stop teaching

When Tali started learning to drive at the end of 11th grade, she was very excited - but the enthusiasm was slowly replaced by rejection and fear, when she realized that her teacher was sexually harassing her. Girls Can't Trust A Driving Instructor "

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Yoav Itiel

Saturday, 04 December 2021, 08:02 Updated: 10:58

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In the video: A young woman who was sexually assaulted during driving lessons talks about the cases and the impact on her life (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Four years after 21-year-old Shatli (pseudonym) complained that her driving instructor had committed sexual offenses with her, the Magistrate's Court in Haifa last month allowed the publication of an excerpt from the indictment against him.

As reported, the indictment was filed "for committing offenses of indecent acts, in 2017, on a number of occasions, on his minor student, during driving lessons."

Today, the teacher, Yosef Baor, is still free, and the trial in his case is being held behind closed doors, while the prosecutor's office is negotiating with his defense attorneys about a plea deal in which he will perform service work and will not want imprisonment at all.

The complainant agreed that the teacher would not want imprisonment, but noted that it hurt her that the 74-year-old man would continue to teach driving.

"It hurts me to see him like that - after I complain and after I confront him - he continues to teach girls, and I must not say anything because it will complicate me," Tali shared.

"It hurts to recreate all these events and see how stupid I was, that I didn't catch it before. It led me to a lot of anxieties. I stopped being who I was, I felt old Tali was dead and Tali was alive. I got into a situation where I had to get up and re-learn to do all sorts of things. Less innocent, and to understand that I am no longer the same innocent girl as I used to be. "

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"I realized I was no longer the innocent girl I used to be."

Tali (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

The incident happened four years ago when Tally finished 11th grade. "I felt very good that I was starting work on the big day off, that I was starting to learn to drive. I was in a very safe place in my life," she recalled. "He picked me up from home and I still remember myself with the school clothes, very excited for the class. We started the trip and started a conversation about who I am and what I am and the sport I love. .

According to her, suspicious signs appeared from the first lesson. "At first it was like a non-serious touch, but I probably did not know how to handle this situation so I pushed it and let myself be dragged into more and more lessons, with each lesson crossing the line and exaggerating more."

According to her, the contact became more and more intimate, and the teacher strived to reach hidden places.

"I will not forget, how because he put his hands on me, I almost got in the truck," she said.

"In the last lesson I took with him, when there were already obscene acts on a level where I felt it was hallucinatory, he reached for a certain place, and then instead of taking control or saying 'enough, I'm not comfortable,' so I turned the wheel, froze, looked down, and the next thing I remember "That he jumps on the wheel, takes over the car and saves us from a collision with some white Toyota. To this day in nightmares I remember the siren of that Toyota and Yashar wakes up, in anxiety of course."

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"I will not forget, how because he put his hands on me, I almost got in the truck" (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

When Tali returned to school, she told her good friend about it, who begged her to share it with her mother, which she did later. "Actually only a day after I started telling my mom, the tokens started falling on me slowly. I went back to live the events."

She says the testimony at the police station was difficult. "Suddenly I had to tell everything in front of him, and it was a very shaky 'experience' for me, that somehow made me feel like I was wrong, that I let it get to the low point it reached. And understand what I went through. "

Following the actions, and the excitement, she experienced a breakdown. "I got to the parking lot at home, and collapsed. I was in tremors and insane cramps for three days. There is no muscle in my body that I did not feel. I could not get out of bed. I felt like one Tali was dead and when I woke up in the hospital then a new Tali got up," she shared. "I started psychological and psychiatric treatment, and fortunately I had a supportive family around me, thanks to whom I was able to overcome. Although I still live it and will live it, I was able to rise up and also do full service in the IDF.

"No matter how much they tell me 'it's not your fault' or 'it's not you, it's him' - I somehow torment myself that I was in these situations and did not know how to put the 'stop'," she continues. "I complained at another time, when people were less susceptible to sexual harassment. In the meantime, these campaigns like 'Who's' came and helped me and made it clear that I was not the only idiot."

"Campaigns like 'Who's' helped me understand that I'm not the only 'idiot'" (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Tali is of course not "dumb", and of course not alone. How common is the obscene phenomenon of sex offenses of driving instructors in their students? In response, the Israel Police stated that "the requested figure cannot be segmented." However, only in August was another indictment filed against driving instructor Moti Cohen, 52, from Ma'ale Adumim, for indecent acts on six of his students. According to the indictment, during the driving lessons, the defendant stroked his students, in two of them he even reached intimate places. The Jerusalem District Attorney's Office stated that Cohen had performed what was attributed to him when a lawsuit had already been filed against him for an indecent act on another girl as part of driving lessons he taught.

In March of this year, an indictment was filed against driving instructor Kobi Rubinger, 61, from Jerusalem, for an indecent act on a student. Last week, in a reasoned judgment spanning 63 pages,The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court convicted driving instructor Moti Eliezer, 55, of Ma'ale Adumim, on seven charges of indecent acts and eight charges of sexual harassment.

"Other girls who are now about to learn to drive, I say - do not settle for a recommendation from a friend," says Tali.

"In my eyes girls can not trust a driving instructor. I would not hesitate to bring mom or dad to classes. At least for the first time. If they have already gotten into a situation they should think well of themselves if they are mentally strong enough to go through this whole process, which is not easy, especially when pulling and pulling. "The discussions that are constantly canceled and postponed. To tell it to the police and more in front of the same person is a very shaky experience for me."

"The interior of a vehicle is an area that creates intimacy that has no place in a driving lesson."

Tali and her father (Photo: Shlomi Gabay)

Eviatar (pseudonym), Tali's father, believes that there should also be an open eye beyond the first few lessons. "My idea is basic, simple and not revolutionary at all. A driving school car is a public car for everything," he told Walla! "Intimacy that has no place in a driving lesson and the camera can prevent the dangers it produces."

Driving instructors do not seem to oppose such a move. "We even encourage it. Most driving instructors already have cameras in the car, both pressed and in front, and also with sound. Overall it also keeps them from being taken care of," he told Walla! Shlomo Yosefsberg, 69, from Kiryat Bialik, chairman of the "Professional Association of Driving Instructors in Israel", which unites 2,232 out of about 3,300 driving instructors in Israel, formerly chairman of the National Association of Driving Instructors,With 42 years of experience as a driving instructor.

He said, "There are already so many laws, so let such a law be enacted as well. We have no control over what is legislated."

He wants to emphasize, "We condemn in disgust and in any case any such improper conduct and anything related to harassment. In every crate of fruit there can be one broken. It needs to be dealt with on a spot basis."

Attorney Tami Ullman, who is representing Yosef Baor with Adv. Shahaf Ullman, said that she will only be able to comment on the plea agreement after the proceedings in the case are completed. She noted that "And there was no application to revoke his license, so there is no reason to act in this direction at this stage."

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