Slippery Slope

Five students from Jerusalem Yeshiva “Merkaz HaRav” assaulted two police detectives and sprayed them with tear gas while they were walking by the Yeshiva and talking among themselves in Arabic. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Adi Elsin, 30, an inspector and intelligence coordinator in the Population, Immigration and Border Authority’s Oz enforcement unit, was indicted for allegedly assaulting and extorting Indian labor migrants, and in one case he is suspected of performing indecent acts on a female foreign worker. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Two Jewish youths from Safed aged 21 and 18 are suspected of assaulting an Arab youth from the nearby village of Akbara because he met with a Jewish woman.

(Hebrew – HaKol HaYehudi)

Settlers cut down about 100 fruit trees in the village of Safa near the settlement of Bat-Ayin and assaulted an elderly Palestinian when he discovered the damage. (Rabbis for Human Rights)

(Hebrew – Rabbis for Human Rights)

Settlers from the outpost Netzach Binyamin assaulted a 60 year old Palestinian, Ahmad al-Zir, with iron pipes near the village of Silwad, causing multiple injuries and leaving him unconscious. (Maan News Agency)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

The Attorney-General claims that Rabbis at the “Od Yosef Hai” yeshiva at Yitzhar encourage their students to commit acts of assault and property damage against Palestinians. (Times of Israel)

(Hebrew – Walla!)

Two female teachers, Revital Vokov and Suhad Abu Zamira who is an arab, were attacked on in Kiryat Moshe neighbourhood in jerusalem. The women were on their way to console a friend in mourning.

Three Jewish youths were arrested on suspicion of assaulting an Arab youth in Tiberias over the weekend. During their investigation it was discovered that two of the youths were also involved in an assault on an Arab resident of Yaffo last week. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

The owner of a vehicle which was parked illegally in Jerusalem assaulted an Arab parking inspector with punches and kicks to the head and ribs after the warden gave him a parking citation. Eyewitness accounts indicate that the assailant said to the Arab – Israeli “your uniform, you should wear with Hezbollah.” (BeHadrei Haredim)

(Hebrew – Reshet)

The Jerusalem Police has stated that the assault on an Arab woman near the light rail station in the city was racially motivated. According to the Police, the young women suspected of the assault met the woman by chance, asked her if she was an Arab, and when she replied that she was, they assaulted her. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Ynet)