Two months have passed since the writer Haim Velder, an ultra-Orthodox cultural hero, committed suicide following the publication of evidence that he sexually assaulted girls and women. The exposure of the faces of Walder, Yehuda Meshi Zahav, Malka Leifer and others is a turning point in the ultra-Orthodox society’s attitude toward sexual abuse. Those who paved the way for change are a handful of young people who grew up in ultra-Orthodox society, including Racheli Gottlieb-Rushgold and her partners in the “Do Not Shut Up” movement.
Immediately after Velder’s suicide, she imposed a silence on herself and now she is speaking for the first time in an interview here News, defining recent events as a revolution in the sector. In an interview with Yair Ettinger, she talks about the failures of the police, and her personal decision, a daughter of a Gur Hasid who was sexually abused as a child, to leave the ultra-Orthodox sector right now.