The rabbi of the Ramat Eshkol neighborhood in Lod in central Israel was dragged out of his car by Arabs and beaten in front of his children, Arutz Sheva reported on Sunday.

Rabbi Itamar Ben-Yaakov was on the way to pick up his kids from school when an Arab woman walked in the street and blocked his car for no apparent reason.

The woman refused to move despite repeated requests by Rabbi Ben-Yaakov. He eventually called the police and took a picture of the woman as she blocked his car.

Minutes later, the Arab woman called her friends, who immediately came to the scene, dragged the rabbi out of his car and beat him in front of his children.

“I’ve lived in this neighborhood for nine years, and in all my time here there has never been this kind of violence,” a Lod resident told Arutz Sheva.

Police later arrested a 28-year-old Palestinian suspect, who was released to house arrest.

(YWN World Headquarters – NYC)