An activist of the organization "Bydino - for the Temple Mount" claims that she was arrested and harassed by police and GSS personnel. She is now demanding compensation from both bodies in the amount of NIS 200,000.
According to her activist, she underwent a series of harassments, threatening phone calls, and finally an arrest at the entrance to the Temple Mount that included a humiliating search of her body, as described in the indictment, filed a few days ago against the police and GSS in the Jerusalem Magistrate's Court. , Violation of the Defamation Law and the Protection of Privacy Law and False Imprisonment.
According to the lawsuit, filed by attorney Adi Ben-Hur, in early August 2020, the plaintiff began receiving phone calls from confidential numbers from various people who claimed she was "needed for interrogation" and later even said she "has a debt in execution" and should go to a police station Moriah in Jerusalem The plaintiff claims that she knew she had no debts in execution, and according to her following these conversations she began to be afraid to walk around outside her home, even accompanied by her mother and friends.
On August 9, Adv. Ben-Hur turned to the Moriah station to find out the meaning of those talks, but he did not receive an answer.
Later, the plaintiff describes, police officers were sent to the plaintiff's parents' house in Haifa, a family of new immigrants from France, which caused great panic and fear on the part of the parents that their daughter might get involved in crime.
"On August 25, 2021, at 08:10, the plaintiff arrived at the Temple Mount and was detained there without being explained the reason for the delay, while the police illegally confiscated her telephone, locked it and deprived her of the ability to speak in real time with her attorney about In order to find out what was done, "the statement of claim stated.
The plaintiff, a religious woman, added that after she was detained for questioning and her mobile phone was taken from her, she was taken to the police station near the Western Wall, where she was asked to pick up her skirt and expose her underwear.
Later, she said, more physical searches were conducted on her.
When the plaintiff's attorney arrived at the Merhav David station, she was ushered into the room of a man who identified himself as a GSS employee, who warned her not to post incitement on social media without presenting appendices or a specific case to prove his claims. Attorney Ben-Hur noted that The same investigation was a statement to the plaintiff that she should not incite on social media, after which she was released.
"Did you hit? Will you pay?"
Tom Nissani, CEO of "In our hands for the Temple Mount": "The days are over when the Israel Police or the GSS will take a 24-year-old woman with no problematic past and terrorize her so that she stops working for the Temple Mount. I hope the police will admit their mistakes and even allow "To sue the police personally to avoid paying compensation from the state coffers. Did you hit? Now you will pay."
Adv. Ben-Hur: "The conduct of the police in this case is scandalous on every scale.
As stated in the statement of claim, my client is suing the State of Israel for sexual harassment, during an unlawful delay on the Temple Mount.
No case has been opened against my client in the police following this illegal conduct, as stated in the statement of claim.
This is an outrageous conduct.
My client, a religious and young 24-year-old woman, is shocked to the core of her soul by the conduct of the police in front of her.
My client's honor as a woman has been desecrated. "
"The allegations will be clarified in court"
The Israel Police responded: "The statement of claim was received last week and we will respond to it in court through the State Attorney's Office as usual."
The General Security Service stated: "The General Security Service is responsible for safeguarding the security of the state, the rules of the democratic regime and its institutions against terrorist threats, sabotage, subversion, espionage and disclosure of state secrets. The Israeli police in front of it, it is likely that they will be clarified as part of the legal proceedings. "
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