Last Monday, a yeshiva student in the Bayit Vegan
neighborhood of Jerusalem was attacked by two youths as he
was returning to his yeshiva. This attack is an outcome of
the violence and incitement toward chareidim which is gaining
widespread momentum among secular youth.
The student, A.Y., was returning to his yeshiva from the
local grocery store. On the way, he passed the nearby secular
Boyer High School, on Torah ve'Avodah Street. When he neared
the school, two youngsters aged 15-16, began to curse him and
spit at him. They then grabbed the contents of the bag he had
brought from the store and began to spray large quantities of
soda all over him. Then the two youngsters began to beat him,
while continuing to curse him in a very ugly manner
The student later on told Yated Ne'eman's reporter. "I
didn't know what to do. There was no one in sight to help
me." He filed a complaint with the police.
This isn't the first time that yeshiva students have been
attacked on that street. In the past, the police did not take
the matters very seriously, and never found any of the
attackers.
