Slippery Slope

Two Haredi residents of Beitar-Illit were arrested on suspicion of operating a ‘modesty squad’ in the city and assaulting female residents over what they deemed ‘unchaste behavior.’ (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Ynet)

Noa Kanteman, a young woman who boarded a bus from Safed to Ashdod, suffered abuse and harassment from haredi passengers who demanded that she sit in the back of the bus. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Walla!)

Police suspect that Haredi community leaders prescribed castration medication to a pedophile from the community in order to prevent rape complaints from reaching the secular authorities. (Times of Israel)

(Hebrew – Walla!)

A new study criticizes Israeli school books, claiming they portray the Palestinians negatively. According to a source who read the final report, “the Israeli side emphasizes the series of disturbances, while the Palestinians claim that Israel is the result of imperialist acts. One of the main conclusions is that each side sticks to its own narrative.” Furthermore, the study criticizes Israeli textbooks for not showing the Green Line, and claims that the textbooks in Israel’s ultra-Orthodox community are “the closest to the Palestinian textbooks in their treatment of the other side,” according to one source. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

A 15 year old Arab youth from East Jerusalem was moderately injured during an assault by ultra-Orthodox youths. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew – Haaretz)

Three young haredi men attacked and Arab cab driver after hailing him in Jerusalem’s Beit Yisrael neighborhood.  One of the men threw a frozen drink into the cab, and when the driver began chasing him on foot, another assailant broke one of the cab’s windows.

(Hebrew – HaKol HaYehudi)

A femal IDF soldier has filed a complaint with the police, claiming a haredi man spat on her mother and her while sitting in their car at a red light in Jerusalem’s Bar-Ilan street. (Ynetnews)

(Hebrew – Ynet)

Haredi residents of Beit-Shemesh stoned a vehicle passing through town and broke one of its windows.  It is suspected that the female driver was attacked because her dress was deemed “immodest”. (Haaretz)

(Hebrew - Ynet)

The Haredi site “Tsofar” published an article by Shmuel Kooper calling for the extermination of Yaron London. The article responds to an opinion piece published by London under the title “Shrink the Haredi Society”. Later the word “exterminate” in Kooper’s article was replaced by “shrink”.

Haredi soldiers have announced that they will boycott the Memorial Day ceremony in the IDF’s Naval Commando base in Atlit if it will include women singing.

(Hebrew - Walla)