Host Corinne Gideon tells what happened on Selichot: "He cursed and scared me""

September 23, 2019   

After the incident at the Great Synagogue in Tel Aviv, when television presenter Corinne Gideon and her husband Hili Sorotzkin arrived for the absolution - and found themselves in the center of a confrontation with the synagogue's gabai, who began cursing and berating the presenter - today she responded to the incident. Who attacked presenter Corinne Gideon when she came to say Selichot in the synagogue? ""What happened in the synagogue on Selichot was such a minor event that I didn't even think to address it," Gideon wrote in a post she published on her Instagram page. "But it was blown out of proportion and hurts a lot of people, so I want to clarify what exactly happened there. "The women's section is located on the same floor as the men's section, and it turned out that I was standing with other women on the border, near the entrance to the synagogue, behind everyone. Definitely not with the men's section! We stood there for a long time without disturbing anyone, when suddenly an older, belligerent man came from the men's section and began to scold us for moving further to the side toward the women's section. "He really startled me and the women standing next to me, cursing and swearing. The synagogue rabbi later apologized for the incident and disavowed that weed. Unfortunately, people who were there filmed the incident, and despite my request not to use it, they spread it to all the media. "It's a shame that such a beautiful event, in a synagogue that connects all sectors and is open to everyone, turned out like this. Happy Holidays and a year of unity.".