Beit Shemesh – A Charedi Orthodox mob chased a teenage girl down a main thoroughfare in the Jerusalem suburb of Beit Shemesh due to her “immodest” attire.
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City residents have been complaining about religiously motivated violence in the Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet neighborhood outside Jerusalem for years. Extremists there frequently clash with police attempting to remove signs calling for public gender segregation.
In a video of Monday’s incident, the girl can be seen running down Nahar Hayarden Street, chased by what appears to be dozens of screaming men in haredi Orthodox garb. Some residents of the neighborhood have complained that they have been harassed and pushed to leave the neighborhood by the extremists, who recently announced a “war” on formerly haredi residents who frequent the neighborhood.
In response to the attack, dozens of secular and national-religious residents held a rally Tuesday protesting the lack of security.
“In one of the neighborhoods, every time I pass through to go to work the children throw stones at me because I am not dressed modestly,” one demonstrator told Walla News.
On Wednesday evening 150 extremists demonstrated outside of the homes of two families affiliated with the Chabad hasidic movement, demanding that they move out. “They have big dogs that they walk around with in the street, they deliberately chase children with them and frighten them, they intentionally defile this neighborhood and we want them to go somewhere else,” the Ynet news site quoted one protester as saying. The Chabad movement draws the extremists’ ire because of their outreach to the non-haredi world.
Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush’s car was mobbed in Beit Shemesh in April. Several months earlier a soldier driving through the city crashed into a lamppost after his car was pelted with stones and trash. Last month, a local extremist was arrested for breaking a woman’s iPhone.
Many Israelis consider Beit Shemesh a microcosm of the religious kulturkampf being waged across the country. The city rose to national prominence in 2011 when local extremists began harassing and spitting on young national-religious girls attending a school on territory they claimed belonged to the haredi community.
one step closer to the geulah.
Wow – how low we have sunk that these chassidim shotim think that they are doing what Hashem wants.
Savage dogs! Why does the government grovel in front of those extremists? Why doesn’t Bibi denounce those savages?
Chillul Hashem at its best. Really now we don’t like out reach programs like Chabad, Aish Hatorah and Ohr Samyach. But abuse is ok cause we are really frum. Iam not sure I agree
While not condoning any violence, a yidish kind shld dress modestly
What if it was the other way and the Nazis were chasing them because of their clothing ?
FYI: the ערב רב. Wore long peyois and looked like rebbes.
פרום. Is the acrynam ר”ת of
פ-יהל ר-שועות ו -ייניג מ-צות
They are disgraceful. They HV no חלק בתורה
The original ynet article states that the people with dogs harrassing the charedim are from the breslov community, here it says while quoting that ynet article that they are from the chabad community please find out which one as it changes peoples attitudes as can be seen above, thanks!
What did these avaryanim expect to do to the young lady if they caught up to her? They are violating so many d’Oraisos. And, during the Nine Days.
Oy lanu ki chatanu.
I’m going to go there I put a bunch of flyers of women in bathing suits all over the place keep these Bums off the street
Sickening cult of psychopaths. I guess they are too lazy and uneducated to work, can’t watch TV, can’t go out, can’t drive. Gotta do something for entertainment. One day the victim or onlooker is going to have a bit of road rage and run down or kill some of the morons.
Beit Shemesh is NOT a Jerusalem suburb.
With all their toireh learning this is what they amount to no different then a bunch of gangsters what a shame on all the good yidden thye should pay a heavy price for this kind of wild animal behaviour
Alterg tell your people that Tu Bav is next week
Those vilde chayos must be taught an appropriate lesson. Undercover civiilans, trained in self defense and possible with weapons, need to patrol the streets and act as decoys.
If they’re looking away from an immodestly dressed woman as they should, how could they possibly chase after her?
Erev Tisha B’Av and we need to remember that the Churbin was because of Sinas chinum.
Go look in Chafetz Chaim: Maamar Ahavas Yisroel about Ahavas Yisroel.
Learn from Aaron Hacohain about Ahavas es habrieyos.
I am rather surprised I have not heard of any of these men having their heads cracked open by one of the women they attack. Does that happen?
Breaks my heart. As if the country doesn’t have enough trouble with its murderous neighbors, it has to address this kind of behavior?????
so whydipd all of you commentatirs didcDiv Lipman a hard tije when ge stood up to them?
WHICH Bet Shemesh???? There’s Ramat Bet Shemesh ALEPH, Ramat Bet Shemesh BET, Ramat Bet Shemesh GIMEL, and plain Bet Shemesh. Although they’re all under the same political administration, they’re FOUR DIFFERENT PLACES!!
VIN EDITORS: In future news articles, please specify the place. It makes a big difference. Thank you.
I don’t care if that girl had tattoos,
had her belly button pierced, and was wearing a very short skirt, and a low cut blouse; that is her business. I think that it is about time that secular Israelis get some clubs, go into these frum Taliban neighborhoods, and beat the heck out of those extremists. Those frum extremists are going to have to learn that if you mess with us, we will mess with you.