A soldier was rescued by cops on Monday after he drove his car into the predomitly ultra-Orthodox Jerusalem neighborhood of Mea Shearim and was pelted with stones and rubbish, police mentioned.
The uniformed man was driving by way of the neighborhood when a number of dozen ultra-Orthodox extremists started pelting his car with rocks and different objects.
Police have been capable of assist him escape with out damage and started looking for these concerned in the incident.
Some members of the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood are violently against military service and the navy in normal.
Over the years, there have been frequent demonstrations by Haredi Jews in opposition to the draft. There have additionally been instances of troopers getting harassed and even assaulted when getting into ultra-Orthodox neighborhoods in Beit Shemesh and Jerusalem.
In January, a man was arrested on suspicion that he was a part of a group of ultra-Orthodox males who threw rocks at a car pushed by a soldier in the city of Beit Shemesh, inflicting him to crash. The 21-year-old soldier was driving by way of the Ramat Beit Shemesh neighborhood of town when a group of ultra-Orthodox males began throwing rocks and luggage of trash at his car. Police mentioned the soldier misplaced management of the automobile and drove into a lamppost.
Last June a former Knesset member’s soldier son was attacked in the capital’s Mea Shearim neighborhood.