Overview
- Rabbi Avraham Idan, head of the Ateret HaLevi yeshiva, says he was stopped while driving through last week’s Jerusalem unrest and was not participating in the protest.
- He recounts an officer aiming a Taser before his car window was smashed, he was pulled from the vehicle, and he was beaten in front of his young son.
- Idan says the violence continued in the police vehicle and at the station, where he heard insults including “You’re worse than terrorists” and denigrating remarks about the haredi community.
- He reports broken ribs, severe pain, and that he remains under house arrest as his son’s brit milah proceeds.
- Accounts describe conflicting police instructions, stone throwing, and the use of stun grenades at the scene, and outlets note police have not commented on his claims.