Violence amongst us • elderly attacked by yeshiva students

A, 67, from Moshav Beit Chilkiya, was attacked last Motzei Shabbos by avrechim, after he commented that they are disturbing his sleep. He sustained from the attackers curses, threats and violence.

"At night," he recalls the incident in conversation with B'Chadrei Charedim, "I heard a noise which disturbed my sleep and at first I did not think much of it. Later, at about 2:00 am, when those people were standing by my house, still making noise – I was unable to fall asleep. I went to them and asked them to be quiet. "

Verbal response began: "One of them, for no reason, started yelling at me, 'Shut up, this settlement is not yours, we will remove you from here, and we'll send thugs and murderers who will kill you."

At one point, while shouting a toy car in the possession of one of the yeshiva students fell into A.'s garden. "I held him, and another avrech tried to pull it back toward him. One of the seats of the toy car was torn apart and as a result tempers flared."

A. says that the two young men beat him fiercely, "they threw me on the path of the garden floor, dragged me a few feet, kicked me and punched me all over my body, and broke my glasses and one of my teeth."

With his last bit of strength A. tried to defend himself. "I grabbed a water hose in the yard and tried to spray them so they will escape, but they continued violence against me."

After a few minutes, they left the place, and A. called the border police patrol car patrolling the area.

He refused to be evacuated to the hospital, but "throughout yom tov I writhed in pain in bed," he says. "I could not get up for the meals."

Because of this, after Pesach was over, when he returned from Jerusalem, he arrived at the Kaplan hospital in Rechovot where he underwent a series of tests,

"Such people are haredim in disguise, I do not know observant people who would be able to do so."

A. filed a complaint to the police, where they are investigating the case.

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