Police on erev Pesach during the late morning hours received a domestic violence call in Ramat Beit Shemesh. A woman phoned to report her husband was assaulting her.
When police arrived, they learned the husband had already fled the area. while they were dealing with the call hundreds of chareidim gathered outside the home and turned over their police vehicle.
Police called for backup and they distanced the crowd. A police official released a statement condemning the actions of community residence as police were summoned to help one of their neighbors.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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17 Responses
Why didn’t they go after the lady. Why did she have to call the police?
This is not a nice story!
Aside from the גראבע spelling/grammar errors, the writer clearly has an ax to grind with the frummer. The police regularly mistreat the frummer and there’s got to be more to this story than reported here.
Obviously missing the residents side of this story. The police do patrol the city regularly. There is obviously something that triggered this now. Therefore, this type of reporting/slander I would expect from haaretz, not from ywn.
To no 1. Either you are making a very sick joke about reporting domestic violence or you truly believe that the woman was at fault, in which case, you have bigger problems. As for those attacking the police vans, they should open fire at these animals with rubber bullets to deter such vandalism or make arrests. If there was some police misconduct, which is not evident from the article, than file a complaint. Otherwise, don’t dare attack the security forces or you will be severely punished.
Some of the comments posted by your readers are nearly as shocking as the misguided reaction of the community and the deplorable abuse of a husband. A helpless woman deserves the benefit of the doubt and the protection of her community; not its condemnation. If the husband fled the scene, he was afraid of being brought to justice.
The holy locals turned the police van over because it is a chabad van – 770 [they only read from right to left]. It had nothing to do with the domestic disobedience issue [the wife refusing to accede to her husband’s more than reasonable demands]
The husband fled to join his Rov, HaGaon HaTzaddik Rebi Eliezer Berland Shlita, neither of whom have done anything wrong. They are booth just being victimized and harassed by the zionist police for no good reason.
Does YWN have its own reporters on the scene interviewing residents AND police about what happened? Or is this article simply translated from the Hebrew news-wire reports. Honestly, your reporting sounds like it was taken straight from “Ha’aretz” or Ynet. As do many other articles purporting to document anything to do with the chareidi tzibbur.
american_yerushalmi – stop defending these bigoted fools. How do you think the police van ended up on its side? I guess it just flipped through ruach [hakodesh?] The Yerushalmi haredi tzibbur in Beit Shemesh behave like animals. And that is coming from an American haredi. And by the way what is an American Yerushalmi? I imagine that when you go back to NY visiting, you forget that you are a Yerushalmi. Try turning an NYPD van on its side and see what happens.
#4 Dorah: Just wondering if, according to you, Dati Leumi protesters are also “animals.” Do you also recommend rubber bullets when they confront police and sometimes react violently?
#9: I guess I need to defend them from bigoted fools who, without even knowing the facts, already knows who is guilty. And since you are so curious about what I am, I’ll tell you that I’ve been living in E.Y. for nearly 40 years, and haven’t been back to NY for almost 20 years. And I’ve never even tried to flip over a police van in either country. Anyway, at my age, the strain could be detrimental to my health.
#10- I really don’t recall such behavior from D”L protesters. On occasions that Charda”lniks have acted violently, the D”L community, including leading rabbis and politicians, condemn their behavior unequivocally. Unlike many of the commentators above, the D”L community judges people by their actions, not by their headgear/social affiliation. And lets face it: Charedi violence is far more prevalent then Charda”l violence.
#8- I saw a video of the incident. It was much worse than just the overturned police van reported by YWN. A large crowd had congregated and was screaming ‘Nazis’ at the police, who were responding to a call for help from a Jewish woman. The crowd was clearly enjoying the whole thing.
People, come on stop acting like fools. This article has not one piece of information with you can even possibly form a opinion on. The Chareidim may have been acting like “animals” but then again it could be the police did something that caused them to do what they did. The point is, we have no idea! Everyone hear that took a stance has no idea what the hell happened and is choosing to assume the facts based of whatever his view is in general on the whole chareidi/police confilct. Get some sense.
#12 Libi: How about Gush Katif, Amona. But it doesn’t really matter, does it? Because the chareidim are always wrong, always violent, always too extreme, too judgmental, do I need to go on? But Gush Katif and Amona, among others, were justified. But anything the chareidim do or want is always wrong.
Let’s face it Yagel Libi, you are so biased against the chareidim that there’s really nothing further to discuss. I only meant does gadolhadorah consider anyone who “dares” attack security forces or their vehicles to be “animals.” Because things happened in Amona and in Gush Katif that could qualify as assaulting the forces of Reishit Tzmichat Geulateinu. But that was a long time ago.
#15 #16- No, Charedim are not always wrong but neither are they always right. In this case, once again, Charedim behaved very poorly but you seem to be unable to admit that. You should examine your own bias rather than falsely attributing it to me.
I certainly have forgotten neither Gush Katif nor Amona but they prove my point: such violence as was taken against soldiers in both incidents was taken by Charda”lniks, not by D”Ls. And really, in Gush Katif there was almost no violence (to the dismay of some).