Jerusalem, Israel – A Palestinian bulldozer driver went on a rampage on a busy Jerusalem street, plowing into a string of vehicles, killing three people and wounding 47 others 6 of themcritical before he was shot dead by police.
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The attack wreaked havoc in downtown Jerusalem. Traffic was halted, and hundreds of people fled through the streets in panic as medics treated the wounded.
At the scene of the attack, two cars were flattened and a third was overturned. A bus also was overturned, and another bus was heavily damaged.
Israel’s national rescue service confirmed two deaths, and the two bodies lay motionless on the ground covered in plastic.
“I saw the bulldozer smash the car with its shovel. He smashed the guy sitting in the driver’s seat,” said Yaakov Ashkenazi, an 18-year-old seminary student.
Israel’s national rescue service said that 22 people were wounded, with at least 14 people hospitalized. Injured people sat dazed on the ground amid piles of broken glass and blood stains on the street. A baby had blood all over its face, and the driver of the bulldozer was slumped motionless over the steering wheel.
Yosef Spielman, who witnessed the attack, said the bulldozer picked up a car “like a toy.” “I was shocked. I saw a guy going crazy,” he said. “All the people were running. They had no chance.”
In a statement, police said a “terrorist” had carried out the attack but gave no further details.
Zaka emergency service identified the driver as a Palestinian resident of Arab East Jerusalem
The attack occurred in an area where Jerusalem is building a new train system. The project has turned many parts of the city into a big construction zone.
A soldier on leave took the gun from an elite policeman at the scene and shot the terrorist dead. The soldier, Moshe Klessner, 18, is the brother-in-law of IDF officer David Shapira, who killed the terrorist in the Mercaz Harav Yeshiva attack, Channel 2 reported.
the victims killed have been indentified as
1. Bat Sheva Unterman from Jerusalem age of 33.
2. Elizabeth (Lili) Goren-Friedman, 54 of Jerusalem
3. Zen Raluay, 68, from Gilo
result for opening gaza? when will we learn how to deal with them? hashem yerachem.
We can’t protect ourself against Gzeiras Golus. The zionist illusion expired.
The response should be; “Buldoz the entire city from this bastard came”.
when will the israely goverment finally give up their כפירה בה’ – מרידה בגוים????
see how many deaths you brought on us already???
why for?
who needs a land before mushiach comes?
how many people paid with their lives?
open your eyes!!!!!!
you are so right
BTW this Pera Adom was a resident of Yerushalayim
And the punishment … to destroy his house. WOW! That really scares this dead terrorist and other terrorists. DEMOLISHING HIS ENTIRE HOUSEHOLD would be a deterrent.
anonymous 8:53
do you really think if israel is wiped off the map all this terrorism will stop?? i dont think so..
they’ll have to direct there hatred someone else and to all those arab lovers dont worry i’m sure the arabs would love to kill you too if they had athe chance
But now nobody should condemn the brutal killing of innocent civilians, an unprovoked attack by a vicious arab terrorist..
all big mouths politicians and internet bloggers should only condemn the Israelis when Israelis accidentally hit some civilians while aiming at destroying terrorist hideouts or terrorist shooting points (which the arabs would usually place close to a residential house to protect it with civilian shields).
Who needs American land with all the anti Semitism and the hate killing gangs recent terrorist attacks child molesters and more…. very un-educated comment about our land that will be there for us when we need to escape instead of davening for peace and security for the land (every shabbos young Israel says a tefilah for the soldiers and the land .. frum shuls yeshivas should follow suit who knows maybe it won’t happen again)
Hashem Yerachem.
I concur with anon 8.53 am. The heretic state of Israel has only bought death and destruction onto the Jews living there since day one. Remember that before Zionisism was ever contemplated Jews lived peacefully in the middle east for centuries. Once the evil Herzl and his cohorts planted this evil concept , we have only suffered since. How many thousands of jewish lives have been cut short because of Zionism? We say in musaf , umipnei chataenu golenu meartzenu, that means we have no right to forcefully take the land. Only through divine intervention will the jews rule the land and the entire world will recognize that the Almighty is the one and only G-D.
Anon: 8:53AM
Really, and how many jews died before the state of Israel??? Should we start counting with MILLIONS!!!!??? Please leave your ignorant comments off this blog. It is insulting!
9:42–you are really naive. Do you think for one moment that the arabs would stop the slaughter without the medina. Remember Hevron in 1929!! There was no medina at that time. There would be no yidden in Eretz Yisroel today without the medina. Wake up!! When the time comes to flee America (and that time will come), you can flee to Africa.
I disagree with anon 853am Before Israel was created there were pogroms in the 1920’s and 1930’s and hundreds of jews were killed. What Israel does need to do is throw out the NETUREI KARTA and place them in arab countries let see how they like it there.
8:53 and 9:42 are unfortunately so right, The Jewish inhabitants in Eretz Yisroel lived there in peace for hundreds of years, getting along wit their Arab neighbors better than the Europeans with their non Jewish neighbors.
Unfortunately when The monster herzl came up with the Zionist movement, and they started talking about taking over Eretz Yisroel (Palestine at that time) they brought upon the yidden there destruction and death r”l. it started with the pogrom in Chevron which was the first Arab reaction to the call to the jews worldwide to “emigrate and go up to Israel”, from then on the bloodshed did not stop. Hashem yeracheim.
Sure they really loved us always, until zionism..how come it says “beyadua sheisov sonei l’Yaakov” centuries before anybody thought of a medina? I am cholila not for a state, but since it is after the fact what is the point of the argument? Once we are here we must protect every yid beruchnious and gashmiyus.
Anon 8:53 and 9:42
You are forgetting the crusades and early 1900’s when the Arabs massacred some bochurim a yeshiva and many more incidents in our land before we had a powerful army to protect us everywhere in the world
Eichmann captured by Israel
Entebbe rescued by Israel
And many more such missions that are not openly known to ignorant people
Now more than ever we need the land of Israel
Funny to think if you so truly believe in god then it is he who gave us the power and ability to get the land just like he punishes us all you so called fake believers think deep into how god works he runs the world nothing we do hasn’t been passed by him whether he agrees or not isn’t it but he gave us the land
I think it’s time all the arabs should be sent packing from Israel. Any country that would attack after that, if Israel had a Prime Minister who was honest and had a spine they would know what to do !!! ( I said if) No other country would allow this situation to continue.
The despotic Turkish rulers in pre WWI Palestine governed with a heavy hand and even heavier hand on its Jewish population – just standard historical antisemitism…
10:06, check out history, this was the fact. maybe they didn’t “love” us, and maybe they even hated us in the heart, but there were no pogroms and no massacres as it unfortunately happened many times (almost non-stop) since the foundation of the movement for the state of Israel (in the 1920’s).
long live zionist, since i see your’e busy writing so you don’t read the other comments, I’ll repeat my self:
“Unfortunately when The monster herzl came up with the Zionist movement, and they started talking about taking over Eretz Yisroel (Palestine at that time) they brought upon the yidden there destruction and death r”l. it started with the pogrom in Chevron which was the first Arab reaction to the call to the jews worldwide to “emigrate and go up to Israel”, from then on the bloodshed did not stop. Hashem yeracheim.”
No! before that era there were no pogroms or massacres.
Anon 8:53 Is sadly right on the botton !!!!!!!
For thousands of years yidden have lived so peacfully side by side with thier arab neighbors without any incident !!! only when herzol started with this idea all tuzros has begun,
I must sadly Agree that the satmar rabbi z”l was 1000 % right with all what he said “that there will come one day that we will regret the creation of the Zionist Israel” it will only bring tuzros & bloodshed;
I give up on this land to ever be quiet & peacfull until moshiach will finally come !!!!!!!!!!
Good Morning Fellow Yidden,
I have just spent some time reading the comments posted above (along with many previous stories), and I just wish I knew how to convey my emotions. I read about people throwing acid on young girls, breaking windows of shops, blaming the tzionim for our brothers and sisters getting murdered. I was born and raised frum by holocaust survivors, but yet was never taught such hatred towards other jews. My lesson was that Hitler didn’t care if you were chasidish, litvish, conservative, or completely unobservant. You were a JEW, and that alone was enough for him. Yet, every time we are hit with a tragedy, there are always those that defend the horrible acts and find “reasons” that they happen. When the few leftovers came crawling out of the ashes of WWII, they didn’t judge anyone. Everyone got along, whether the woman covered their hair or not, whether they were chasidish or not, whether they went mixed swimming or not, etc. Are we better than them? I think not. Not everyone wants to be chasidish, not everyone wants to be yeshivish, not everyone wants to be modern orthodox, but in the end, we all have something in common; we are Jews. We daven 3 times a day, we learn, we keep shabbos, etc. And everyone needs to respect everyone else, no matter what. If you don’t like someone’s music, don’t listen; if you don’t like the way certain women dress, don’t look. I think you all understand what I am trying to say.
It is truly very sad that this is Yiddishkeit today. I, for one, am quite disappointed.
Shocking! Disgusting! We have just witnessed yet another disgraceful murder of our brothers, and some of us can only get political and blame fellow Jews?
Zelig makes a very important point. Yes, there are very chushuva sheetos that condemn Zionism. The Satmar Rov, zt”l, is the best known, but far from the only one. And clearly the state was founded in large part by non-religious, and even virulently anti-religious yidden. Understood.
But the question is, Now what? The medina has been there for 60 years. Clearly, the ratzon HaShem has been for it to be here, whether, l’chatchila, it was created B’issur or B’heter. There are millions of Jews living there. Does anyone have a good idea for what to do, if the state were to follow the advice of 8:53 and 9:42 and just fold up it’s tents and disband? Learn to live “peacefully” under the Arabs.
Obviously, that is not a choice. Even assuming that the Arabs were benevolent and kind prior to Herzl (not really, btw), it is clear that this “Genie” is not going back in the “bottle” anytime soon.
So please, after a terrible attack on some of our innocent Acheinu B’nai Yisroel, lets stop with the politics, and grieve and sympathize a little.
Shloimy
“For thousands of years…”?
Have you ever heard of the Persians or the Babalonians – did you ever think that they were also Arabs!
WAKE UP EVERYONE. Stop trying to blame people and saying it is THEM not us. We are all Yidden. We will pay the price until we have some Ahavas Chinom when Moshiach will come. Until then, lets stop trying to dissociate ourselves from yenem. If YOU were there in Yerusholayim Ir Hakodesh, that rosho would not have cared who you were on that bus.
If a Yid in Hebron so much as looks at an Arab with a mean face, the geshry from the leftists, arois mit alle Yidden fun Hebron!
“Disengage” all the Arab neighborhoods in Jerusalem and get some shtarke Christians to pull down that ugly thing on Har Habayis.
as I am greiving I remind myself what satmar ruv z”l used to cry & scream: “HASHEM SHOULD HELP THE MEDINAH SHALL BE BUTEL WITHOUT ANY YIDDISH BLOOD”
My dear shlomie, I just cant help you but its a CLEAR OPEN DAF in kesubahs daf 112, that a medinah brings all these tuzros, QUOTE: ANI MATIR AS BESARCHEM KITZVUOS & AYOLOS HASUDAH end quote
So if you like it or d’ont thats the problem, the same gemarah that says to be shomer shabbos, not to eat treife, says that…… JUST TUFF
Was the meraglim or the eiriv rav & more the rutzon hashem that they were going on for years ?? absolutly not HASHEM JUST WANTS TO TEST US OUT with yet another nisoyon
Anon 10:39: I agree that the Satmar Rebbie ZTL was a brilliant man and talmid chochom, but that was his opinion; repeat his opinion. Because Satmar chasidim do not go to the Kotel (pardon me, Koisel), does that mean that I shouldn’t go? There is a reason the medina still exists, just think back to the nissim of the six day war. Although it may not be agreaable to certain sects, it is plainly obvious that Hakodosh Boruch Hu has his own plans.
Nebach to speak bad of EY when we should be lashing out at the palestinian terrorists esp. at this time.
10:39, first of all the Gemora you refer to is at Daf 111a, not 112.
But more importantly, who are we to determine what current events are a kiyum of which gemora, maamrei chazel, or divrei nevi’im? Yes, Rav Elazar speaks of great punishments for violating the gimmel sh’vuos. Some Rabbonim feel, for various reason, that these sh’vuos do not apply. Others feel that they do.
But regardless, is it for us to decide exactly what message HaShem is sending?
And again I ask, even assuming that you somehow *know* that the nimshal is to be m’vatel the medina, how ought this be done? Do you have a recommendation that would spare klal yisroel from further bloodshed, ch”v? Of course you don’t!
So perhaps if we have to give each other mussar and hochocha, it should be directed at areas that should actually be improved upon. (I am sure that you can think of a few examples.)
Shloimy
Rocklander; U look to the glory of the six day war as divine approval of the medina, well than how do u read the divine messages we have been receiving in the 40 years since……..
Anon 11:21: I didn’t post my opinion to argue with you. I believe that everyone is entitled to his/her opinion. I don’t hate you for yours; like I said before, we are all Yidden. We have enough enemies, so the least we can do is respect each other. By the way, when a Hitler rises to power in America, where will YOU run to?
Does anyone remember the recent ruling from Hagaon R Chaim Kanievsky Shlita in regard to arab workers?
Once again, Daas Torah is correct.
Now I understand why the secular Jews hate the chardim. They dont have to serve in the IDF they can sit and learn but they are still cursing this great nation.They dont deserve to live there send them to Iran they will be happy there.
It’s pretty obvious to me why this happened. There are no coincidences.
Just one week ago, the atheists who run the Government in Israel rammed a TOEVA PARADE down the throats of the Yidden in Yerushalaim.–“ASHUR SHEVET APEE!”
I am anon 9.42. To all those comments proclaiming the Arabs masscare in 1929, whats wrong with you, yes there was no official state but Zionism was well into fruition and thats what ticked them off. None of you ignorant people remember history. When the idea of forming a homeland for the Jewish people was initiated ALL the gedolim at that time including the chofetz Chaim, Rav Elchonan and plenty others were dead set against it. They knew what there evil inclinations were and how many tens of thousands of yiddishe neshomas were eliminated by Zinists thugs yemach shemo vezichro. To all those that say we must have a Jewish homeland by force , how can you justify all the killings and all the shmad by these Zionists beheimos ? What good has the Medina done spiritually for the Jewish people ? You are s o flawed in your thinking that they hate us regardless so why not fight. Yes they hate us, because against halacha and against human rights the arabs were kicked out in 1948.Take the gedolims word for it, if not for the stae of Israel , Moshiach would have long been here . That is Ikvesah demeshicha, period.
OK, I have a great idea. The government should set up a recruiting station outside the Kotel. Let them hire every able bodied collector at the Kotel and teach them how to do construction. This way, they earn a parnasa, we get rid of arab workers, and others can concentrate on their tefillos while there.
I love the fact that every Satmar Chossid knows & quotes the “Gimmel Shevous” from the Agadata in Kesubos. Is that taught in lieu of all other teachings? Or is that part of the rhetoric that is spewed by (certain) Chasidim every time a Jew gets killed in Eretz Yisroel?
anon 9:42/12:03. While I agree with you that the Israeli government is a bunch of clowns, I do want to answer something you said. You ask “What good has the Medina done spiritually for the Jewish people ?” Well, how many thousands of boys and girls go to Israel after high school to learn for a year or two? How many thousands of young men are sitting in Mir and many, many, other yeshivas? Or is that not spiritual?
A little histroy BEFORE Hertzel was born:
1828- There was a massacre of Jews in Baghdad. 1839- in the eastern Persian city of Meshed, a mob burst into the Jewish Quarter, burned the synagogue, and destroyed the Torah scrolls. It was only by forcible conversion that a massacre was averted.
1867- There was another massacre in Barfurush. 1839, the Allahdad incident, the Jews of Mashhad, Iran, now known as the Mashhadi Jews, were coerced into converting to Islam.
In 1840, the Jews of Damascus were falsely accused of having murdered a Christian monk and his Muslim servant and of having used their blood to bake Passover bread.
A Jewish barber was tortured until he “confessed”; two other Jews who were arrested died under torture, while a third converted to Islam to save his life. Throughout the 1860s, the Jews of Libya were subjected to what Gilbert calls punitive taxation. In 1864, around 500 Jews were killed in Marrakech and Fez in Morocco. In 1869, 18 Jews were killed in Tunis, and an Arab mob looted Jewish homes and stores, and burned synagogues, on Jerba Island. In 1875, 20 Jews were killed by a mob in Demnat, Morocco; elsewhere in Morocco, Jews were attacked and killed in the streets in broad daylight. In 1897, synagogues were ransacked and Jews were murdered in Tripolitania.
In 1776, there was a slaughter of Jews at Bosra, and in bitterness of anti Jewish measures taken Muslim rulers in the 18th century caused many Jews to flea.
From 1438, the Jews of Fez were forced to live in special quarters called mellahs, a name derived from the Arabic word for salt because the Jews in Morocco were forced to carry out the job of salting the heads of executed prisoners prior to their public display. Chouraqui sums it up when he wrote: “such restriction and humiliation as to exceed anything in Europe”. Charles de Foucauld in 1883 who was not generally sympathetic to Jews writes of the Jews: “They are the most unfortunate of men, every Jew belongs body and soul to his seigneur, the sid [Arab master]”. Similarly, in 1465, Arab mobs in Fez slaughtered thousands of Jews, leaving only 11 alive, after a Jewish deputy vizier treated a Muslim woman in “an offensive manner.” The killings touched off a wave of similar massacres throughout Morocco.
Shalll we continue?
“rabbi” lebovic 8:36AM …The Zionist illusion expired… and you’re gleeful, you m—n! Your way of thinking (not to speak of your heart) makes less sense than a Chelemer!!! “To Cut off your face to spite your nose”! What do you think those palstinian b——s would do to you, if they had a chance???!!!
There has to be a public outcry over the way CNN is reporting this attack .”Terrorist” in quotes?!
“Long live Zionisom” 9:32AM This (your banner (blog ID)) disproves a myth! That ALL Y.I. members know how to spell [English] and ALL Chasidish/e don’t know [English spelling]…
“ZIONISM” is spelled like this…! NOT like that…! “ZIONISOM” !!!
p.s.: Both sides [of the equation]!!!
The unfortunate fact that these kind of tragedies happens, very abnormal catastrophes that doesn’t appear anywhere in the entire world, as this morning story a murder with a heavy bulldozer driving in middle of a busy street smashing cars & buses which looks like crazy wild dream, or the “suicide bombs” a live person can become like a bomb by simple blowing himself up, even though he gets killed, these things are not “derech-hateve”, by meaning, you would never hear anywhere in the world such kind of murdering, you may hear shootings or bomb explosions r”l, but suicide bombing was created at first in E. Yisroel R”L, this means something to us yidden, it’s a “wink fin himmel” to us yiden on the entire world and in Israel “befrat”.
The simple pusik in “Shi-Hashirim” that states clearly, if you are “Oiver on the three Shevuos”, Hashem says; “Any matir es besarchem k’ayol u’keaylos hasode”, do you have an idea what these words mean, “Leider”, & unfortunately, we’ve learned it, the real hard way, and so many times, but nobody wants to think or talk about, because we’re proud, we have a medina, we have our own army, we’re able to do whatever “we” want, nobody can ever tell us what to do. (And this is the feeling and thought of everybody, frum and un-frum). But Hashems word is forever and ever, as in Parshas “Shlach”, when the Meraglim wanted to go up and Hashem said, do not go now, you’ve already messed up,”Loy ta’alu b’hor ki hashem eneinu bekirbechem” but they didn’t listen, and all got killed. Exactly, and even much worthier is in our days happening. Clearly, Hashem doesn’t want us and doesn’t need us to be in Eretz Yisrorel if we do not “Mekyem” all the Taryag Mitzwoss “Deoyrayso & Derabonon”, this is clearly in Shas & Poskim.
And even if you’re not with this thought that we need a Medina with all the “Hashchose” there is, but simple just giving them any kind of support, or even thinking that there might be any good or even a help of any kind from the Reshoim, is certainly a “Charon-Af” from Hashem R”L, and who knows, whom to claim for this tragedy it happened.
Nothing more is here to discuss, the only thing remains to us yidden to be “mespalel” to hashem that the Medina-shel-gihenim shal be resolved totally, without any harm to Ehrliche yidden. Hashem will see that at least the majority of erliche yidden are not supporting them entirely, he’ll certainly bring the real “Geula”, after all, Moshiach will only come to those Earliche Yidden that are through to him
to anonymous 12:03
what ticks off the Arabs is the mere fact that you are alive.
either israel fights back or close the whole country down
the medineh is full of gedolei yisroel and bnei torah that understand that since there is already a medineh and many lives are in danger if we are not protected – just as you have shomrim and security here in the usa – we need to look out for the entire country- this Shitah that you follow – that is only a Shitas Yochid – that not a single Godol in Klal Yisroel followed – this shita is blinding you to think crooked – and become a jew hater – every time you take the side of the Arabs – it shows your true colors –
All gzeirois in the past, were part of gzeiras Golus. The tsorois from when zionism came up, is because they try to defend themself against gzeiras Golus. The point is not, that there was no gzeirois before zionism, but to prove people that the fight against G’D’s gzeiras Golus, did’nt approve protection to jews. In contradiction! R’Eliashuv said, he did’nt remember a time when so many jews together stayed in such danger like today in israel.
I still find it shocking that so many posters here are finding this tragic event to be an opportunity to state their halachic/political shita against the medina. Is this really the appropriate moment?
Do I even smell a bit of GLOATING about it? Can a frum, ehrlich yid actually feel simcha at the suffering of Acheinu Bnai Yisroel, just because it supposedly “confirms” his point of view/hashkafa/shita?
Please someone tell me that I am interpreting this incorrectly.