A man was recorded pushing and slamming an ultra-Orthodox boy to the ground: "Only because he had tefillin in his hands"
The boy was walking with his friends on a main street in Tel Aviv when he suddenly encountered the foreign man, who forcefully pushed him to the floor.
According to the boy's father, the stranger hissed at them "something against ultra-Orthodox", and later they complained to the police.
Torah Judaism MK on the case: "The incitement of politicians turns into actual physical violence at the moment of truth"
Yaki Adamker and Uri Sela
05/09/2022
Monday, 05 September 2022, 00:29 Updated: 03:57
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On video: a man violently pushes an ultra-Orthodox boy in Tel Aviv (from Levi Neustadt's Twitter)
A passer-by was recorded last Friday pushing and forcefully slamming a boy to the floor in Tel Aviv.
The boy, who belonged to the Chabad sect, was walking with his two friends in the street during an operation to encourage the placing of tefillin on the spot, when suddenly the foreign man pushed him
. ", the father of the guy who was pushed to the floor said to Walla. "They stood there in complete shock, complete shock.
He was very confused and said that the attacker had hissed something against Haredim.
For two hours they sat on a bench and did not move.
It was because they were wearing ultra-Orthodox clothing with tefillin in their hands.
A complaint was also filed with the police today, it's shocking."
"It was because they had tefillin in their hands."
Documentation of the event (photo: official website, from Levi Neustadt's Twitter)
MK Israel Eichler of Torah Judaism said of the attack that "as we warned, the hatred and incitement of politicians like Lieberman and others, does not stop at the line of verbal violence.
It turns into real physical violence at the moment of truth."
He added that "the Israeli police must arrest the attacker immediately and punish him with all the severity of the law of 'hate crime', because there is no other reason here than anti-Semitic hatred.
It is not possible for a Jewish person to walk down the street of a city in the Land of Israel and be attacked because of his religious appearance and because of the tefillin in his hands.
The response must be, for them to hear and be seen.
The honor of the Jew and the tefillin is not wasted."
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