Overview
- Dozens of ultra-Orthodox youths surrounded Ben‑Tzur’s vehicle, smashed its windows, and threw garbage bags after a Saturday Torah lecture in Jerusalem.
- Ben‑Tzur was unharmed and was escorted from the scene by responding officers, who said they are working to locate those involved.
- Shas condemned the violence as the work of a small group and called it a desecration that does not represent the religious public.
- Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee chair Boaz Bismuth denounced the attack as an attempt to intimidate elected officials, while Avigdor Liberman also criticized the assailants.
- Ben‑Tzur’s office described a “lynch attempt,” and eyewitnesses claimed he was beaten, as the conscription dispute increasingly fuels intra‑haredi confrontations.