A Jerusalem cabbie on Sunday, 2 Cheshvan, picked up two youths in the Sorotzkin neighborhood of Yerushalayim, and to his surprise, shortly after they got into his vehicle, they brandished knives and threatened him, demanding his money. The driver turned over his cash to the robbers.
The driver however was not about to permit the two to get away. He called on his two-way radio for other drivers to assist and they began hunting for the two, who were eventually apprehended at 31 Sorotzkin Street.
The drivers split up, covering different entrances to the building, determined to apprehend the robbers, delinquent youths, apparently from the community. They eventually found the two hiding in the storage room inside the building.
Police arrived and found the two in possession of the stolen money.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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6 Responses
Hashem Yerachem!
were these heimishe boys, yeshiva bochurim?
#2, how could they be heimish or yeshiva bochurim?
#2: They were but not from one of the better yeshivas. Their defense is that they thought they were stealing drugs, not money which is apparently legal there.
#’s 3 and 4 – your interaction sounds like something my mother A’H’ might have said – 50 years ago. You are living in the dark ages. There are good kids and there are bad kids – everywhere. They come from all kinds of homes – wealthy and poor, educated and not. Welcome to life in the 21st century.
Unfortunately, we are seeing more and more ‘former’ yeshiva boys just ‘hanging’ around up to no good. There is a problem in the Yeshiva system that works hand in hand with insensitive parents who do not relate to their boys as people. The outcome is these unfortunates.