The Department of Police Investigations (DIP) opened an investigation into a disturbing incident that occurred shortly before Pesach when Attorney Yissachar Dov Frenkel, 38, a resident of Mea Shearim, left his home to bring food and medication to his parents who were self-quarantining at home.
Frenkel was violently attacked by two Border Police officers, thrown to the ground and kicked. The Border Police were in the neighborhood to enforce Health Ministry directives but Frenkel hadn’t violated any directives.
Frenkel is not a typical Toldos Aharon chassid due to the fact that he is a top attorney, in the past working at the office of senior attorney Yaakov Weinrot, z’l, and currently working in the office of senior attorney Boaz Ben Tzur.
In an interview with Ynet, Frenkel said: “My parents are considered at-risk. My father is sick with cancer and they are quarantined at home. I go there on a regular basis to bring them food. On the way back I passed the police officers and one of the policemen yelled at me: ‘Run home!'”
“‘Okay,'” I said but before I could even take a step I was thrown to the ground. My glasses fell off and I was kicked. Baruch Hashem, I didn’t suffer any permanent damage. Also, I’m not familiar with any regulations that it’s necessary to run. Plus I was within 100 meters of my home.”
“More than it pained me physically,” Frenkel told Kikar Shabbat, “and it pained me very much, I felt extremely humiliated.”
A witness of the incident said: “It looked like a group of wild animals who found a victim and joyfully pounced on him. It was simply nauseating.”
Israel Police responded in a statement: “Even at this time of national emergency, this is unacceptable behavior and in complete opposition to the norms of behavior expected of any police officer. The incident is under investigation by the DIP and appropriate steps will be taken against the police officers in accordance with its findings.”
(YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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Zionists were not available for comment. This is why Yerushalmi Jews yell Nazis at them. This is one of many examples.
To compare them to animals is really insulting to normal animals. Nazis would be a more appropriate comparison.
Yes this is why they get called names of our arch nemesis
First instincts are to perhaps agree with the sentiment
However on reflection
Governments round the world talk about the “WAR” on corona
Theses kids yes some of them 18 years of age are risking
their lives to fight that war
In that situation adrenaline is pumping
In time of war the Torah talks about YEPHAS TOYA
Which is unjewish but the Torah knows in war man
is not capable of normal standards
THIS VIDEO IS SHOCKING
For the sake of trying to stop the hate let’s
Compare apples with apples
In any other middle eastern country they
would have batons and might very well have continued
the assault
Yes this was an unprovoked push but please take a step
back and consider the history in the neighborhood
They are going in expecting to get stones hurled at them
In that situation they are not going to approach a man
in the street and say please sir go home!
It’s normal for them to show strength and restraint force
This clip does not show the whole story
Normally there are announcements on speakers to clear
the streets
The clip would tell us more if it showed where the officers were
running towards and what awaited them
For the sake of peace let’s try wear rose tinted lenses in
these horrific times in which our brothers and sisters are
dying regardless of which side of the fence they sit
The journey to love our brethren starts with mutual respect
The police are roaming the streets abusing people. LIke a gang of thugs. I look forward to watching them burn in hell.
An elderly Toldos Aharon chossid whom I was close to many years ago and who survived three years in work camps without ever eating treifus, being mechalel Shabbos or missing a tefilla, at great mesiras nefesh, and who later experienced Israeli police brutality in Meah Shearim, didn’t approve of calling them Nazis since it minimized what the real Nazis did, as he had experienced close up. (When Nazis came into a neighborhood, people didn’t shout epithets at them, they hid in their homes in terror and said Tehillim as if their lives depended on it, as they may well have done.) Still, it might take someone like him who knew first-hand what the Nazis were about to object to such a thing. It’s not a simple situation and people in Meah Shearim have experienced a lot. He lost his wife, children and 84 relatives in one day in Auschwitz. May the memory of Chaim ben Yeremiyahu be for a blessing.
This guy deserves to be thrown down and put in jail. He stole hundreds of thousands of shekel, if not over a million shekel, from me and tens of other families buying apt., claiming that the money is going to the mortgage. There is currently a din torah ongoing.
בושה וחרפה
This guy is chashud on gezel and on sheker.
Gezel, as I pointed out before, and sheker, that he said that he was within 100 meters of his house. I know exactly where he lives, right off Shomrei emunim, and he was found on Meah shearim. There is about 1000 meters distance, not 100. Error on the missing 0?