“Rabbi Kanievsky calls on the police to stop the terrible things”

Violation of the guidelines of the third closure led during the day to many clashes between members of the ultra-Orthodox society and the police. According to the suspicion, in Jerusalem, some ultra-Orthodox vandalized the Shivtei Yisrael and Karon light rail station that stood at the station, and others protested as part of the frustration over police enforcement against ultra-Orthodox institutions in the city. During the protest, parked vehicles and others trying to pass through the demonstration area were damaged. Watch the destruction of the light rail and the attack on the car of the mayor of Bnei Brak.

After the emergency meeting in the Bnei Brak municipality, Mayor Rubinstein came to a gathering on Hashomer Street and was evicted by several boys who shouted insults at him. Several boys then attacked the mayor’s vehicle, and according to those present at the scene, Rubinstein was smuggled out of the scene with the help of pepper spray. “Break his appearance,” said one of those present in the documentation from the arena.

The Jerusalem Police stated in response to the vandalism of the light rail that “a report was received that the Tribal Station of the light rail was damaged, some of the train windows present at the station were painted and an obstacle was placed on the track. Start scanning for the suspects. “

At the same time, several ultra-Orthodox participated in a protest that included blocking traffic arteries, causing damage to infrastructure and throwing stones at vehicles in the area of ​​Shabbat Square in the capital. Two people involved in the disturbance were arrested, and police reported causing damage to traffic lights and several vehicles.

After thousands demonstrated in Bnei Brak in the morning, in the evening the clashes resumed in front of police officers who came to disperse a crowd on Hashomer Street in the city. Even after the end of the demonstration in the Jerusalem faction, hundreds of young people remained on the streets, setting fire to bins and blocking roads for vehicular traffic.

In another incident in Bnei Brak, an Egged bus on line 402 was pelted with stones on Aharonovich Street. Several boys then got into the bus, emptied fire extinguishers and stole the equipment of the driver who escaped from the bus. The violations were also documented in Beit Shemesh, where police said the forces were attacked by wedding participants with hundreds of participants. Riots that included injuries to police and arrests of protesters also occurred in Ashdod and the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem.

MK Gafni, Rabbi Kanievsky’s representative in the Knesset, said at the emergency conference in Bnei Brak: Coping creates very difficult situations.

“We have to say things at home and abroad. We do not agree with the behavior of the police, it is inconceivable that because there is a violation on the shores of Tel Aviv to close a neighborhood and shoot bombs and smoke grenades and spray like they did here in Bnei Brak on Thursday night and today. I want to see the police do it and close. Ramat Aviv with a collective punishment. “

MK Gafni added: “Bnei Brak has more than 210,000 residents, most of whom are law-abiding. In recent days this is unthinkable. I spoke with the Minister of Internal Security, Amir Ohana, and the Tel Aviv District Commander, David Bitan, and they said that they were lowering the flames. David Bitan even came today to sit with the mayor. We need to sit down and lower the flames. ”

He added: “We have never done anything like this. We want to deal with prayer, we are careful that people do not catch and do not get infected and pray that the plague will go away. I asked the Minister of Torah what to say before the conference. He said I would say on his behalf that we should stop. “These demonstrations, and he says he is calling on the Israeli police to stop with the horrible things they are doing to the residents of Bnei Brak. What? They have become damn damn hot-headed policemen? We must end what is happening to us and stop what is happening in the police.”

The chairman of Torah Judaism and the Minister of Construction and Housing, Yaakov Litzman, referred to an incident during which a police officer was forced to shoot in the air this morning in a violent rally in Bnei Brak. Is that the Minister of Defense will operate the Air Force according to the situation. Even secular MKs said it was unnecessary. We need someone to take this seriously, not DIP.

“We demand someone outside, perhaps the state comptroller, who should check who the policeman did it. We need to check who gave the order to use firearms. The one who did it can no longer serve in the Israeli police. We will not give up until this matter becomes clear. I think our strength is “To be united. We have all come here to express the position and cooperation of all the parties, and from now on we will try to ensure that the police no longer use terrible things against the ultra-Orthodox public.”

Police said in the wake of the shooting in the air that “an analysis of all the findings in the field shows that a lawbreaking crowd surrounded two policemen who were present to maintain public order and threw stones at them.

“The other policeman was hit by a stone in the head and is seeking medical treatment after feeling unwell. He will later undergo further tests. We will work to locate and extract the full severity of the law with the offenders.” The policeman who was hit by the stone said: “During an operational activity we received a report of roadblocks. People ran towards us and threw bottles and everything that came near. When we felt we were already suffocating in the crowd, a policeman who was with me fired into the air to disperse them. “I snatched a large stone inside my head.”

Bnei Brak Mayor Avraham Rubinstein said at the emergency conference: “The Bnei Brak municipality in all its parts and partners condemns and condemns the cases of violence against the Israeli police unequivocally and in every forum. Any case of violence against a person, property and any factor is an irreconcilable crime that we do not agree with. In any form, the latest events will be handled by us at all levels.

“Throughout the months of the Corona, in huge violations there was dialogue, there was discourse, restraint without firearms and without grenades and batons and without civilian explosions. We call on the police and the minister in charge to recover and withdraw forces from the city streets, leaving the city Impeccable and non-violent.

“At the same time, with immense pain we say that the Israeli police and its leaders are to blame, in the catastrophe that is taking place in our city for several days. This is a provocative, agitating, beating and abusive activity that leads the city’s unprecedented bullying, collective punishment and enforcement. “The police are pouring huge forces into the city, wrestling with the public in demonstrations and conducting an initiated duel with bored marginalized boys in the name of public order.”

Deputy Minister of Transportation Uri Maklev of Torah Judaism also spoke. “What we have seen in recent days in this city is unbridled violence, the use of live fire in front of residents,” McLean said. “We call on the Minister of Internal Security and the Prime Minister to exhaust the law and change this system. Since when do the police take revenge on civilians? I have had many conversations with the Minister of Internal Security. The Minister intends to cooperate and end the violence.”

During the day, the police issued an unusual statement following the continuing clashes and violations in the ultra-Orthodox society: “In recent weeks we have witnessed severe, unbridled and dangerous violence against police by a group of extremists. The violence led to injuries to police officers across the country and could have taken a toll. Includes not only insults and derogatory cries, but also physical assault, stone-throwing and other objects and violent riots.

“This violence is directed at those who enforce the law by an enthusiastic crowd who see the police as an enemy and do everything in their power to thwart enforcement and sometimes even physically harm the police, including cynical, wrongful and ugly use of children and teenagers. Even in the face of this sad reality, police “Regulations everywhere and in every sector along with a discourse of dialogue and dialogue. Violence against police officers or civilians will encounter determined and uncompromising enforcement.”

The prime minister added: “I call the rabbis, why not? If it is possible to accept with understanding, better. Rabbi Kanievsky is not available, and everyone who talks to him talks to the grandson. It is not begging, I did not beg, it is my message to the rabbi and I hope it has affected, but something It worked and it’s good that way. ”

In the Mea Shearim neighborhood of the capital, they were furious about the police use of the olive grove this morning to disperse the disturbances. Moshe, a resident of the neighborhood, said: “All the balconies in the neighborhood smell like a pigsty. It happened in the past, but not like today’s cruelty. An olive grove drives on an empty street and fills a skunk on people’s balconies, it’s a punishment. If the police do not calm down – it will have consequences.

“We have not been connected to the state for 70 years, this is not something new. We do not want the help and the good of the state, also in the matter of the corona. Thank God, we are the safest place in the country. I do not take social security or health insurance. Let us live. “Life and do not tell us to close our institutions. There was a fear of the corona on Passover and I believe that today we are in the first place in dealing with the virus.”

Yehezkel Lev, a spokesman for the B’Tzedek organization and a resident of Mea Shearim, said in a conversation with Ynet: “The olive grove is shooting in the street in all directions.” My sister was in the store and was shot in the head. There is collective punishment here. “In recent days, there has been very great pressure on the police to carry out unprecedented enforcement of the ultra-Orthodox public, so the police simply set out on a barbaric campaign, simply attacking civilians and passers-by for no apparent reason.”