A.K. (name on file), an activist affiliated with the ‘Yerushalmi branch’ which follows HaGaon HaRav Shmuel Auerbach Shlita was convicted on Sunday 8 Elul of insulting a chareidi IDF soldier during a tefilla in Beit Knesset Beit Yisrael in the Ezras Torah area of Yerushalayim. He is also convicted of insulting police at the station. He was acquitted of physical assault. He becomes the first chareidi to be convicted of assaulting a member of the chareidi community for serving in the IDF, the so-called ‘chardakim’.
The incident occurred a year ago while the soldier was davening maariv in the shul while dressed in an IDF uniform and accompanied by his father. The defendant shouted ‘Chardak’ at the plaintiff, shouting “Get out of here, take off your yarmulke. Why are you davening here?”. He continued insulting the soldier while the latter tried davening.
Others shouted at the soldier too and one approached him and tried to photograph him with a phone as the soldier asked him not to. The defendant and other approached the soldier and punched him with a closed fist in the area of his chest and shoulder. The soldier’s father tried to intervene on his son’s behalf by distancing the attackers but he too fell victim as they began pushing and punching him.
The defendant shouted against police in the station when he was questioned including “Amalek police” and “Satan police”.
The court stated “We must view the actions of the defendant as directed at the complainant who was fulfilling his duties as an IDF soldier and not just a regular person”. The court explained the actions were clearly directed against a public servant and therefore and affront to the IDF and represent a challenge to the very legal status of the state and its agencies.
Sentencing hearing to follow.
(YWN – Israel Desk, Jerusalem)
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10 Responses
these criminally insane ignorant savages including their leaders who instigate this criminal behaviour need to be given long prison sentences this is the only way this gangster-ism will stop.
CHAIM
he should be punished by doing 3 years in the army, I don;t care if that means cleaning the floors, but he must be in the army and be in uniform
Good idea. And he has to pray 3 times a day in his uniform and each prayer has to be in a different shul around Yerusholaim. Let him get the feeling of what it’s like.
Freedom of expression is only good for the U.S.A, but not in Israel?
We should be davening for our
Dedicated soldiers who risk their lives to protect us.
That is true ahavas yisroel.
I have seen soldiers come to Rav Shmuel Auerbach in his yeshiva and the Gadol takes the time to listen and give them Brachos.Sinas Chinom is the only language these crazies who hurt our soldiers believe in.
Let them leave our country.
Bullies
#4
You call punching freedom of expression? Then I’d love to express my feelings to you…
#4 freedom of speech is not assault.
Chugibugi stop talking like a totally ignorant hopelessly insane verbal vampire. No leaders instigate this behavior except in the distant recesses of your frontally lobotomized brainless cranium.
uncle ben.
your comment that no leaders instigate this behavior,shows me you are either completely ignorant what’s going on in Israel or you are a bold faced liar or both of the above.
We all know who those criminally insane Jew hating leaders are and who the instigators are.
CHAIM