Riot in the heart of the Shmuel Hanevi neighborhood in Jerusalem: Hundreds of soldiers deployed this evening in the Geula neighborhood - Bar Ilan and Shmuel Hanavi - and conducted a military exercise. Towards the end of the exercise, a group of soldiers began handing out - according to residents - "brochures encouraging conscription.".
Dozens of ultra-Orthodox Jews immediately gathered at the scene, shouting insults and insults at the soldiers, throwing stones at them, and expelling them from the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood.
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The protesters also overturned trash cans and attempted to stop traffic at the intersection of Yehezkel and Shmuel Hanavi streets. The protesters blocked the path of a passenger bus that passed by, while singing and dancing.
Large forces of police and riot police were called to the scene and dispersed the demonstrators and helped the soldiers escape from the angry crowd. The police then dispersed the crowd - and order was restored.
Yesterday (Tuesday), an ultra-Orthodox soldier living in Bnei Brak was verbally attacked by a group of extremists.
Baruch Indig, who serves on the IDF Radio, told his friends about what happened on his Facebook page.
""I wanted to tell you something from the heart," he wrote. "A few minutes ago I was standing at the bus stop (wearing a uniform) on Rabbi Akiva Street in Bnei Brak, waiting for the bus to take me home. Two guys who look like righteous guys – even with beards – approach me and hand me a pamphlet/pashakil that is against the Harediks. While I am perusing what is written, they start shouting at the top of their voices: "Harediks, get out of our city – you are embarrassing Judaism."
""Two things – first, my great shame, that I even lived in such a place that is capable of raising boys who approach a guy like that and humiliate him in front of passersby (and they claim they did this at the request of Rabbi Kanievsky – bullshit). I had tears in my eyes! Tears of humiliation! And what made my heart hurt even more was that other boys joined them and shouted at me.
""This is the first time I have come across such hatred for an ultra-Orthodox soldier (especially in a time like now – the counting of the Omer), and they had such a humiliating and disdainful look on their faces!"
""Second thing – when I looked at the leaflet, what was written there? Moral remarks against Haredim? Verses and all that stuff that Haredim (and I excluded myself from the list) know how to write in Pashkvilim? No! Absolutely not! The title: 'The Neighborhood's Fucker', and the content itself uses words I remember from third grade... that the Haredim are sick, fast, and have landed, etc.... and what's most strange, at the bottom was a stamp of 'Ha-Dibur Ka-Halacha', bearing a picture of the Chofetz Chaim.
""So I am not the shame of Judaism. You are the shame of the Father in Heaven! You are the ones who humiliate people under the auspices of religion, under the auspices of rabbis, and under the auspices of the Gemara that you study.".
