Overview
- Yoav Ben-Tzur’s car was surrounded and vandalized outside a Torah lecture in Jerusalem as police extracted him and reported no injuries, though the vehicle was heavily damaged.
- Ben-Tzur’s office and eyewitnesses called the incident an attempted lynching and said he was beaten, a claim that conflicts with police statements that he was unharmed.
- Officers from the Lev HaBira station and Border Police dispersed the attackers and are actively searching for suspects, calling the assault a grave offense against a public official.
- Hours later, protesters gathered outside UTJ MK Yaakov Asher’s home in Bnei Brak in a tense demonstration over the draft bill, with police maintaining barriers and order.
- Shas condemned the violence as the work of a small group of rioters, and politicians including Boaz Bismuth, Avigdor Liberman, Yair Lapid, and Gadi Eizenkot issued sharp denunciations.