5:55PM IL: Rav Yehuda Citon Z”L, who sustained serious injuries in the unrests in Geula on motzei Simchas Torah was niftar in Yerushalayim on Sunday afternoon. The incident began at the Toldos Aaron Beis Medrash and the victim was struck as he tried fleeing the scene, struck with a baton by police as shabavnikim were involved in violent disturbances in the area.
The niftar remained in coma for a number of weeks, finally opening his eyes. Since the incident he did not leave Hadassah Ein Kerem Hospital where family members report he endured much suffering during the months since police struck him. The mourners are hopeful the truth will emerge in a court of law.
EMS personnel from MDA and Ichud Hatzalah were waiting at Kikar Shabbat when a child summoned them, finding the victim nearby in a pool of blood from his head injuries. They began CPR and he was transported to the trauma center in critical condition. It appears he sustained severe neurological compromise as a result of the blows to his head. It was later learned he left the yeshiva, seeking to avoid any involvement in the brewing violence.
Moshe Levy, one of the MDA medics who treated him that night, denies reports that police prevented rescue personnel from treating the victim.
The levaya is taking place in Yerushalayim and kvura will be in Har Menuchos.
(Yechiel Spira – YWN Israel)
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Watch as the murderers are let off the hook or with a slap on the wrist. When governmental agents murder religious Jews the penalty is a quite pat on the back.
Is the above story reporting anti-Jewish police brutality in Jerusalem 2010 or in Berlin 1938?
First the Flotilla and now this . The Israeli Gov. has no respect for human life. We should start our own state, I mean we already have Ambulances and Shomrim Police who needs
the seculars.
May hashem avenge his blood….
In the same way as the terrorists on the Gaza bound ship found out that there is a price to be paid for violence, so those in the outwardly haredi community who riot just for the sake of it have found out there is a heavy price to pay.
The difference is that in this case he who suffered was innocent and a frum Yid. That simply makes the rioting that the haredi community induces even more reprehensible.
Avreimi- why are you blaming the instigators of this streak of violence, instead of the perpetrators themselves? You needn’t condone the shababnikim, but the police are still lowlife, violent scum and murderers.
A good answer, Avreimi. I feel very sorry this happened, but let’s be honest: IF there was no Charedi rioting, this poor man wouldn’t have been hurt. Simplistic, but true.
BDE.
smartalek
I hope you never need the services of the police to proterct you. 99% of all cops are honest and hard-working. They place their own lives at risk every time tey report for work.
Your remarks are the most disgusting I have ever seen on this site.
You owe policwemen the world over an abject apology.
We the family have lost s very special person. Ths is a pure story of being inthe Wrng plce at the wrong time BDE. And as for ywn the levaya wz in bnei beak nt yerushalayim
smartaleck
If you know that the police are ” lowlife, violent scum and murderers”, which I do not accept, then don’t start up with them simply for the fun of making a riot. Someone is certain to get hurt. Of course some of the police are looking for any excuse to teach the haredim a lesson but that is all the more reason to avoid rioting.
Avremi is right.
This is unquestionably a tragedy.
But to the “mahigei HA’Eidah'”we must shout “yadeichem shafchu es hadam hazeh, v’eineichem ra’ueh.”
Our hafganos — the hafaganos of the rov hatzibur hachareidi who follow the rov minyan ubinyan of Gedolsie Torah who held teh Satmar Rebbe in great esteem as a tzaddik but vociferously opposed his “shittah” — should be outside the homes of the leaders of the Eidah, because through tehir actions they are becoming Rodfim of our kehillos, of us and of our siblings and children who live in Artzinu Hakedoshah and do not follow the Daas Yochid they have chosen to embrace and distort.
The Satmar Rebbe never condoned the reckles desctruction of street lighs, burning dumpsters in the streets, stoning Chavrei Haknesses, or blowing out the tires of Egged busses.
Yes it’s Shabavnikim — but those Shabavnikim are not the ones who left teh “Kehillah” but those who are part of it.
The Hundreds of “Charedi” “Reb-Araleh” looking hooligans who are shomer shabbos but who are terrorists.
Enough is enough.
And it’s time we said it.
Get your facts straight, b4 starting to spread hate and denounce erliche Yidden. That night there were ho hafguns. These were hooligans who just flittered in the streets. Firs its the Edah etc. – COME ON YOU SELF-HATING charedim
The ISRAELI Secular Anti religious police are not ‘just regular police’.
People talk of victims of crime of needing these ‘police’.
When do they need them?
When Seculars or
Arabs break into their houses and rob them and the police don’t care because it’s “only a religious fanatic”?
When do the religious Jews in Israel actually ‘GET’ all this help, they are supposed to be so greatful for?
As for ‘rioting’ how come those so ready to condemn the cheredim for such violence have no problem with the riotging of the seculars doing it?
I remember several years ago it was reported in either the Hamodea or the Yated Ne’eman (one of those two) that some seculars were opening some kind of utznenius store in a chaerdi neighborhood and many cheredim were peacefully protesting on the sidewalk.
One old man was saying Tehillim and the secular thugs attacked him and beat him to death.
As they were beating him before he died they knocked him onto a police car and the secular thug police inside did nothing untill other cheredim tried to get to the old man to treat him for his wounds and stop the ebating.
Only when others tried to save his life did the secular thug police bother to get out pof their car and forcibly keep the Cheredim from treating the old man.
He without any help finally died and nothing happened to the police for the murder the helped to commit.
They were not even charged with anything.
So there is nothing for Cheredim to be so respectful or greatful for that the thug violent anti Torah police ever do for them.
If the Cheredim do riot sometimes it’s only because they learned after years of watching, that the seculars always get away with it and nothing else has helped the Cheredim deal with the vicious anti Torah government and terroristic Stasi like, police.
I meant to ad that since the old man in the article I mentioned was just standing on the sidewalk saying Tehillim; The claim that if Cheredim were peaceful, “they would not be beaten” is totally false.
Moose613:
You obviously do not live in Israel like I do. 99% of the cops is way too high. I give it maybe 50%. I used to be niave and believe they were just trying to keep the streets clean till I personally saw them beat people that were jsut walking by and were doing absolutely nothing wrong at all.
I could go on and on… Bottom line is that the non religious have a guilty conscious and they hate the religious. There is no din v’cheshbon here. It’s a police’d state. The cops do what they want, when they want and how they want.
lets get something very clear. while the violence by the frum side is unacceptable silence on all issues is also unacceptable. the secular enjoy baiting the chareidi just like the arabs like baiting the israelis. there should not be any reason for the frum to have to protest. there was an agreement when the state was established that officially the gvnmt would not publicly violate tora sensitiviteis(ie grave digging, chilul shabbos, gay rights etc) we conveniently forget their wickedness and talk about the wreckless reactions of fools looking for excitement
Maybe if some of the Chareidim would sign up as police officers, Navy seals, paratroopers, doctors, we wouldn’t have to hear all this Hareidi complaints that “everybody wants to hurt us.” In my opinion if the Chareidim had a real job to go to, they would be busy and not have time to riot. It is horrible if any Jew dies, especially in the hands of another Jew, but if there were no rioting, them the police officers would have been home with their families and not having to fight with other Jews.
ENOUGH!!!
Look at the headlines
“Iran Offers Navy Escort For Next Gaza Convoy”
“Iranian Army to Hold Massive War Games”
Do you really need to express your sinas chenam (no matter how justified it is) Don’t you realize that these headlines mean Israel may be at war in a few days. Don’t you realize that posting your comments here don’t help.
I propose that instead of generating “Justified” Sina we each take on a Mitzva that we will work on.
I will try to start a Coffee Room thread where we can post our Good deeds and our pledges to do good.
Thank you,
While my heart goes out to the family and loved one of the victim, I must express that the guilty party is 100% the “chareidi” community of thugs. The family of the niftar should be taking the rioters to Beis Din, and it is clear that they are all rodefim on the kehilla in that area. Shame on all of the “frum” thugs. HYD.
Frummy I guess u dnt knw the family at allll they just tke thngs and say Thts wht hashem decided for us
I guess we still have not learned much in 2,000 years of Golus caused by sinas chinam, within the community. As the article which is linked to starts:
“The violence outside Toldos Aaron in Meah Shearim on motzei Simchas Torah, when second hakofos were taking place was not the act of outsiders, but the result of ongoing disputes, sinas chinam, within the community.”
I guess we still have not learned much in 2,000 years of Golus caused by sinas chinam, within the community.
We are all saddened by the tragedy of somebody who was trying the FLEE the scene getting killed.
We all agree that the cops are “trigger-happy”.
But, it seems that there are too many important issues we cannot agree on.
I guess we still have not learned much in 2,000 years of Golus caused by sinas chinam, within the community.
So let’s do something about it! How about smiling at somebody who isn’t affiliated which your exact brand of Yiddishkeit? Try it today, tomorrow and next week!
BuzBuz is absolutely right!
When my sister and brother-in-law, unfortunately got themselves mixed in a crowd of protesters, they literally ran for their lives when they saw the police running after them when they did absolutely nothing!
So #17 What jobs are the Chredim supposed to be going to motzoi Yom Tov at night?
Are you saying that rioting seculars do not have jobs to go to and that is the only reason THEY riot?
Yes is some were in the Navy Seals perhaps even then they might have a mission to go on.
How many do you think would make it into an elite group like that?
What are the rest supposed to be doing Motzoi Yom Tov?
What should they do when harrassed by seculars?
#20 He was put into a coma by one of the SECULAR police thugs.
But of course you would convict him of being Frum just like the racist KKK in America would convict one of their victims for being Black.
#3 – i’m with you 100% …. what i cannot understand is why every condition under the sun in Israel has it’s own organization and committee .. and there is not one united religious group … one group that represents and includes all the religious groups … the Sephardim, the Ashkenazim, the Ethiopian, the Indian … all the religious of each group … the problem in Israel is there is no united front among the religious … so the secularists have the strength … the saying ‘divide and conquer’ is the reality in Israel… unfortunately no one actually divided the religious… we did it to ourselves … it can actually be restated to read ‘we have divided ourselves, so we have been conquered’ …. i see this all as a test … how strong is the frumkeit in Israel? it is so fragmented, different camps at odds with each other … and i am not talking about different religious affiliations, like reform and conservative: the religious groups are apart …. ‘and so the enemy came… and conquered’ …. frum Jews, regardless of heritage, are falling victim to the secularists …. i don’t think the secularists are out to destroy yiddishkeit …. i think they are just opportunists … they see an opportunity and they run with it… there is no united religious front in Israel ….. the secularists are just taking advantage of tremendously weak situation among the religious …. they are just being secularists, what more can we expect? ….. but for us? …. ‘a house divided will not stand’…..