Haredi soldier attacked: "The IDF waiting for someone to die?" • Interview

"I felt humiliated, helpless and angry at the IDF did not do anything to protect me and require me to go with the uniform," describes S. G., an Orthodox soldier and resident of Beit Shemesh, the moments when attacked by a group of militants this week in the Bukharan Quarter in Jerusalem. "It's a matter of days until the next case that could end in death, no one cares."

S., father to a baby, enlisted to the Intelligence Corps six months ago. He fills his military service in an orbit Welfare Services in the Center. Before four months ago he raised before the Secretary of the Commission the will to raise a request for uniform exemption.

"My life as a soldier in Beit Shemesh, is pretty scary," he explained.

Secretary of the committee rejected it and said: "reregister in three months as all applications submitted now have been rejected."

The more voices raised against yeshiva student being recruited, the more voices heard about the Chardakim campaign so grew the concern about an attack against a man." When I was traveling with my wife on a bus in Beit Shemesh, we wouldn’t talk to each other so her extremist employers will not know I was serving in the army ".

A month ago when his fear grew he submitted a request to the Secretary of the Commission. "He told me that there are many requests and until I did not bring a police complaint I was being attacked, I have no chance of getting approval to exempt uniform."

Last Motzei Shabbos S. got stuck with his vehicle in the Bukharan Quarter of Jerusalem. Only on Sunday evening, when he returned from his service in the army he came to Jerusalem to address a vehicle and remove it from the neighborhood., But then the scenario he feared took place: a group of radicals and yeshiva students surrounded him and shouted at him: "smelly Chardak", "Beat him," "You pollutant the environment " and more.

S. who feared the situation he encountered will deteriorate, called the police, trying to defend himself. The group also attacked him violently when one of the radicals took the yarmulke off his head. They said to him that a person in the IDF is not worthy to enter into a Haredi neighborhood or wear a yarmulke.

"I called the phone number they gave us in the army when I stumbled upon a strike, but there was no answer," he says. "Just at ten after being rescued from the neighborhood by the police they called me back and asked me what exactly I wanted."

This morning (Tuesday) when S. inquired, `What happened to his request for exemption of uniform they responded:" The committee will meet next month. "He said, "My feeling that the army does not give me protection. I live in my neighborhood with fear, when I get off the bus I look right and left for fear that someone will hurt me and ran home.

"I am angry at the IDF more than I angry at those who attacked me. It seems that until someone does not die, nobody will move a thing. "

IDF source told B'Chadrei Charedim that the soldier's request was filed just today at the Shahar section and will be discussed in the next committee.

The IDF said to B'Chadrei Charedim that "the IDF denounces and condemns any violent behavior towards soldiers. In light of the severity of the situation, the soldier's request is currently being evaluated by the relevant sources at the IDF."

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