Pedestrians summoned police on Monday afternoon at Jerusalem’s Kikar Tzion after seeing a weapon partially exposed among the belongings of a panhandler who was working the area.
Apparently, at some point the beggar waved the weapon at a chareidi male for reasons that remain unclear, but this prompted bystanders to summon police. Police went through the beggar’s belongings and quickly learned that the man was an Arab disguised as a Jew for the purpose of obtaining money from passersby. The weapon was a teargas gun. The man was taken into custody.
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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This is just another reminder that one should be judiciously careful in who one gives “tzedoka” to. When I was last in Yerushalayim I was about to give to someone when I was told that he is a goy and reputedly mentally unstable; he is worth a lot of money but hassles people daily. Of course he had a kipa on and had flowing tzitzis. Going to daven one morning I saw a meshulach getting out of a rental car with a jaunty look to him. Once he got into the Beis Hamedrash he had disheveled his collar and was looking like a real nebuch. And no, it wasn’t the cheapest grade of rental car either.
1. I hear what you are saying but as someone who has done his share of car rentals I will inform you that many many times the rate for the “not the cheapest” looking car is actually LESS than the rate of a midsize. Another possibility of what could have happened was they upgraded him.