Dr. Efrat Shor, a pediatrician who works in Beit Shemesh, was attacked today (Wednesday) by protesters in the city - while she was on her way home from work.
In a conversation with Suleiman Maswad from 'Kan News', she recounted the horror: "Dozens of people started surrounding my car and started shouting threats at me: 'Do you want to stay alive? Stop filming.'".
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Shor recounted the sequence of events: "I finished work around one o'clock and Waze took me through the Ramat Beit Shemesh B neighborhood. Halfway through my journey, I suddenly saw a crowd of ultra-Orthodox people blocking the road and I didn't understand what it was about. I stopped because I couldn't continue. I pulled out my phone and started taking pictures.".
The doctor added: "One of them put his hat inside the car so I wouldn't be able to take pictures and told me not to take pictures.".
Shor describes her attempt to flee the scene: "Meanwhile, I hear stones being thrown and banging on my car. I felt really scared. I told them: I just want to get through. I couldn't get out of the car because I was afraid of what they would do to me, and I couldn't drive because I was afraid of hurting them.".
""In the end, I managed to escape from there. I know the Haredi society, but at that moment I met other Haredi.".
Shor is expected to file a police complaint.
Yesterday, an IDF soldier who was in his vehicle in the Heftziba neighborhood in the city of Beit Shemesh was attacked with curses and stones by a group of extremist Haredi boys and children.
