This morning (Sunday), Arab rioters attacked ultra-Orthodox worshipers who marched in the Old City to the Western Wall for morning prayers with prayer shawls.
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The sight of the humiliating attack provoked a great storm.
JSM forces secured the worshipers and escorted them out of the scene, and two of the attackers were arrested by a Border Police force.
One of the young men who was attacked is Eliyahu Datzinger, who appeared on the program “Shesh” with Oded Ben Ami on News 12: “We wanted to pray. We walked on Via Dolorosa, where a group of Arabs were waiting for us. “When we passed there, they attacked us and beat us, there were security forces nearby and they searched for them until they found them.”
He said that although they did not need medical treatment, they were physically harmed: “They hit us, not beatings that we had to evacuate, but they did hit us.”
According to Eliyahu, the police at the scene told the young men after half an hour of searching that the attackers had been found.
Zvi, Eliyahu’s father, heard about the incident a few hours later: “It feels very unfortunate. Jews can not walk safely on the most holy days it is a very unfortunate and very painful thing. It cannot be that Jews will not be able to go and pray safely. “
Despite the attack, neither Zvi nor his son intend to stop walking the alleys of the city on their way to the Western Wall. “There is no discussion about this matter, it is very important to us that there is no situation in which Jews can not continue to pray, I have no such thought,” said Zvi.
His son said: “I will go the same route tomorrow, there is no question at all.”
Father Zvi: “The message is that Jews can pray safely, certainly at times of holidays that are the most sacred times. It can not be that in these times there is a disturbance for Jews to pray. “