A 22-year-old man is accused of setting the bus on fire in Bnei Brak

The Tel Aviv District Attorney’s Office filed an indictment today (Friday) in the city district court against Mordechai David, a 22-year-old resident of Bnei Brak, for conspiracy to commit a crime, arson (together) and obstruction of justice, which he carried out during riots two weeks ago in Bnei Brak. Bus passenger.

Riots in Bnei Brak: Bus set on fire, driver attacked // Photo: David Keshet

According to the indictment, after the bus was left empty, some of the crowd tried to set it on fire, but passers-by who passed by extinguished the fire. When the arson attempts were unsuccessful, a number of early acquaintances called on the defendant to collect cardboard pallets, and piled them near the front door of the bus. The defendant then set fire to a cardboard surface and placed it burning on the driver’s seat on the bus. As a result of the acts, the bus burned completely.

After committing the acts, the defendant met a reporter on a TV show, and told him that he would hide the phone in his house. But he asked the reporter, that in case there were policemen in the place he would take the phone and say that it belonged to him. This is in order to prevent the Israeli police from seizing the phone, which contains videos documenting the riots.

In the request for detention until the end of the proceedings, Advocate Sufiya Teitz noted: “The respondent’s danger is learned both from the nature of the offenses attributed to him and from the circumstances of the incident: the respondent set fire to a public bus, near many people, under residential buildings where many families are at night. In these acts, the respondent posed a real danger to both the occupants of the buildings and those around them, which miraculously did not result in any casualties. The planning in the respondent’s actions, and being an active and agitating factor in the riots, also teaches a lot about the danger learned from the respondent. “