Jerusalem – On the heels of a court ordered decision that an autopsy be performed on an Orthodox infant who died after allegedly being shaken by a caregiver, Haredi protesters rioted in the streets of Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood and Beit Shemesh on Thursday, blocking roads and pelting police with rocks.
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The baby, who is the grandson of Beit Shemesh Mayor, Moshe Abutbul, died early Thursday following several days in the pediatric intensive care unit at Hadassah Ein Kerem.
The child’s family attended the early morning court hearing on the autopsy, and has been granted a temporary stay pending the outcome of a 5 p.m. hearing before the High Court.
Immediately following the court decision, dozens of Haredis took to the streets in protest, blocking traffic and clashing with police.
While three have arrests have been made, police say no severe injuries have been reported.
Following the court’s order, Mayor Abutbul said, “The real abuse is done now, the family is grieving.”
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Omg. Talk about taking things waaaay overboard. Someone please find employment for those hundreds of young men with too much time on their hands. And those cops gotta chillax.
Totally false reporting and I don’t expect a frum publication to post such info. I was at the protest, and not one rock was thrown from the chareidim and actually the police attacked the chareidim with sticks before they did anything they wer just walking and screaming “gevald”.
I was there and sew something which I think shows how crazy and corrupt this country is and i don’t think this would happen in any western countries so I wanna share this story
As these cops were arresting one of the protesters some American yungerman driving past sew and shouted out of his car to the cop saying why are you guys wasting your time arresting these people why don’t you go and find and arrest the terrorist who shot people in tel Aviv
So this cop got insulted but knew he cant do anything about it so he pulled him over and asked him for a teudat zehut or passport and of course this guy didn’t have it on him because like anyone else no one carries it on him so he arrested him because in Israel you have to carry it
Now come on do you really think this would happen in any western country even if there would be a lew in America to cary you passport they wont just get insulted and therefore arrest you for such stupid things
And its definitely only because he got insulted because they don’t ever just pull over a guy and arrest him for not carrying a passport
Throw rocks = 5 years in Jail. A rock is a dangerous projectile. You can’t pass a law for the Arabs and then don’t apply it to Jews. Everyone has a right to protest, sit in etc. but a rock……
If the autopsy results support a criminal prosecution, who’ll bet they won’t protest on behalf of the defendant?
A light unto the nations!
Hopefully cooler heads will prevail and of thru need to do an autopsy, they’ll do it with scans which are NON INVASIVE.
ayingle tell your people to get a job.
I just read, from another source, that the babysitter confessed. If that’s the case, how can the court justify an autopsy? They don’t need it for a conviction. What’s to be gained?
I can understand a non invasive scan, just to have some evidence. The country should know better.
When secular Jews and goyim see this, they ask: “Are these the representatives of the observers of Torah?” Chillul Hashem.
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There was no rocks thrown DO NOT beleive evrything you read even on VIN.
I am so sorry for the family of the baby, this is a terrible thing to happen. But these protests… it was bad enough my bus was re-routed because of this demo, but why on earth are they protesting in Jerusalem?
Re autopsies, Israel invented the full body scanner that can determine cause of death, so why not just agree to use that instead of invasive practices. Not everything has to be determined by the courts; if only common sense would prevail.
Can someone explain the differences between “ultra-orthodox” and “chareidi”.
Amazing. Massive protests for kavod hameis. But isn’t it kavod hameis to determine if the child was murdered? Isn’t the strong possibility that there is a person in the business of child care who may be free to murder again if the autopsy is not done more important than kavod hameis? Isn’t vachai bahem much more important than kavod hameis?!
Autopsies:
Some things need a microscopic examination of tissue.
Some things are smaller than the resolution of a scanner.
Not everything shows with the needed clarity on CAT or MRI scanners.