Spitter #2? • Woman soldier complained: "Hareidi spit on me and my mother"

Is the 'exclusion of women' returning to the stage?

Halali Yitzchak, a soldier serving in "Bamachane" newspaper, filed a complaint this morning (Wednesday) at the Jerusalem police, claiming that an extremist Hareidi spit on her and her mother as they sat in a car while standing at a red light on Bar Ilan Street in Jerusalem.

As every morning, the two left their homes in Jerusalem, in the direction of the central bus station in the city. They passed through the central junction on Bar Ilan Street. According to Yitzchak, a young man, who looked in his 20's, approached the car, put his head into the driver's window and shouted: "You're good girls", spat at her and at her mother.

"He hit her in the neck," says Yitzchak in a conversation with Behadrey Haredim. "Even me, he did not spare. While we tried to get out of the shock, we made a U-turn, and I went out of the car to take a picture of him with my iPhone, so he escaped."

The soldier said that the guy was dressed in a way which suits extremist circles. "When he escaped he went to one of the adjacent Yeshivas in the area. We handed over to the police the photo I was able to photograph and filed a complaint."

"It was a sense of helplessness," concludes Yitzchak. "A feeling of humiliation, such an affront which is hard to forgive."

She further related that an hour ago she and her mother received a phone call to reach the Jerusalem police station. "They told us that one or two suspects have been found and we should promptly arrive to identify them," she said.

In Yitzchak's Facebook status which she raised earlier, she described the event, and received many responses:

"Just an hour ago I went with my mom to central bus station in Jerusalem. I am a soldier in the IDF, and all I tried was to get to the base in Tel Aviv. On Bar Ilan street we stood at a traffic light, then a Hareidi in his twenties came over to us, put his head through the car window and said to us: 'You seem like good girls', and spit at us like no one ever spit on me. It's impossible to describe the humiliation and helplessness you feel in such a situation, because if I would go out and uses tear gas which the IDF gave me for such cases, all the Haredim in the area would jump up at me and my mother, then I probably would not be here to talk about it.

"We called the police after we tried to photograph him, but he escaped, and the helpless police explained to us that just in this part of the street, there are no cameras, and the Haredim who live in the area destroy them for their personal needs. Therefore, although despite the exact description of the Haredi we had given the police, the criminal who humiliated me because I'm a woman in uniform and my mother who is a modest woman by all accounts, will probably not be punished, and he and his friends who are 'Torah scholars' will continue to despise human dignity and humiliate women where ever they are. Whether it's on the bus and whether it's the middle of the street, whether they are women, young girls or little girls ".

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