(haipo) - A violent incident occurred on Friday afternoon near the six-year-old Urban H school in Haifa, when a man attacked a student who tried to place tefillin at the Chabad booth. The incident ended with the arrest of the suspect, and the school students were left shocked by the unusual incident.
The incident: a confrontation that escalated into violence
On Friday, March 28, at around 12:00, a stand for placing tefillin was set up outside the Irony H school. The stand was operated by young Chabad students, who suggested that the students place tefillin, as is customary in public places on Fridays. One of the school students accepted the offer and began placing tefillin, but within a short time another person arrived at the scene and asked the operators to leave the place.
Tensions between the parties increased, and during the argument that developed, the man allegedly pulled out a cutting knife and attacked the student, as well as his friend who was with him. Police were called to the scene, questioned those involved, and later located the suspect and detained him for questioning.
Ongoing controversy surrounding tefillin stands
Cases of setting up tefillin stalls near educational institutions have sparked much controversy in the past. While supporters of the initiative claim that it is an important mitzvah and an opportunity to instill Jewish tradition in students, there are parents and educators who oppose the presence of such stalls near schools, claiming that it constitutes religious pressure on minors.
The school administration's response to the incident
The school principal, Hagit Levy, contacted the students' parents and informed them of the unusual event. In the letter she sent, she wrote:
"I would like to update you on a serious incident that occurred outside the school today. At around 12 noon at a Chabad stand outside the school, a student put on tefillin. A citizen passing by stopped his car, confronted the stand operators and attacked the student and his friend. The police were called and all those involved were questioned. Complaints were filed with the police. Peace to the students who were there. We are in contact with the families of the students who were attacked and those who were in the area and watched the event. We are also in contact with the Kabbat Mosach, the municipal supervision and the police. At the beginning of the week, the educational staff will discuss the incident in the classrooms. The school staff is available for any questions."
Police: The suspect was arrested and will be questioned
The police said that Coastal District police officers from the Haifa station arrived at the suspect's home and arrested him for questioning at the police station. "The investigation is ongoing, and based on its findings, a decision will be made on the suspect's continued detention," the police statement said.
Students and parents react with shock
The incident caused a stir among the school's students and their parents. Many of them were surprised by the violence displayed at the event and expressed concern about future incidents. "I couldn't believe it could happen here," said one student. "Everyone should be free to believe and pray as they wish, without fear of violence."
Stormy public discourse on religious freedom and public space
Beyond the criminal aspect of the event, the incident once again floods the public discourse surrounding religious freedom and the public space. In Israel, where there is constant tension between secular and religious people, issues such as tefillin stands, public transportation on Shabbat, or gender segregation at public events continue to be a source of debate.
What with all the values like liberalism, and upholding the law, all those values shatter when it protects those on the other side.
For those who don't know, the attacker is an anesthesiologist at Rambam Hospital. There is an attempt to silence the matter, but this is the case.
No event justifies violence. But schools should definitely avoid these stalls because there are different opinions and different beliefs and a path to faith in the Jewish religion. In general, any stall that supports, like the Tevbim, religions just arouses antagonism towards those who disagree and may endanger our children. If schools can monitor these stalls, then it can be avoided. It won't kill anyone. If they avoid it, it just proves that coercion of any kind can cause disaster. Let them grow up in peace!
These kinds of comments can kill! In the Jewish state, are you trying to create fear of upholding Judaism? Shame on you!
This is a serious case. This should be responded to very severely. I highly recommend that this person be arrested and sent to prison for the rest of his life.
A child choosing to undergo transgender surgery or become gay – that is an informed decision for the child, but a child's decision to put on tefillin is illegitimate and is called playing with children's emotions??? Anti-Semites flee the country.
Every Haredi sect interprets the Torah in a self-serving way.
When it is permitted and possible to place booths in Mea Shearim to support recruitment and LGBTQ, then I will support Chabad tefillin-laying booths.
Haifa is not the antithesis of Mea Shearim, because it is a city mixed with religious, secular, and Arabs. Just as there are pride parades and Lehtev stands and Let the Animals Live stands and so on – so too will there be tefillin stands – if it is permitted then everything is permitted
In Kiryat Haim, in the middle of the busiest street in traffic and commerce, and on weekends, Ahi Eilat Street, they set up a yeshiva and tomorrow they will start asking to close the street on Shabbat. They like to poke a finger in the eye instead of hiding in their own hole without disturbing others.
Nonsense, they said that in Bialik too
Nothing happened.
Antisemitic reaction.
Left rejects
Hide in their hole? Haha, the Land of Israel and the Torah and God are one thing. In the meantime, you live at our expense! Parasites! Instead of going to yeshivas, you desecrate the land! If you continue to ignore the signs on the ground, soon you will not have a state! And the army will not help you like it did not help on Simchat Torah!
Chabad activists should be kicked out of any place where they carry out missionary activity.
The violent left needs to be kicked out of the country. By the way, for many years, they claimed that the right-wingers are the ones resorting to violence. They also murdered Rabin.
Anarchists should be kicked out of any place where they commit hate crimes.
Judaism is in, left is out.
The villainous left needs to be thrown out.
Chabad is beneficial to the people of Israel, with a place in the world.
Compared to parasites like you.
Chabad is not a missionary, putting on tefillin is a very important mitzvah in Judaism! Blessed is he who puts on tefillin and fulfills what God wants from us.
What?! What kind of tension in between?! There is a clear indication of murder here with evidence of a cold weapon that can kill, against a child who stood quietly and prayed with tefillin without harming anyone! What kind of delusional coverage is this? And what does the honorable director have to say about it, no expression of a moral position, a dry report on severe violence by an adult against a child for no wrongdoing, an attack with a knife in broad daylight! Shame!!!
Freedom of religion and religious preaching?
What would happen if they preached Christianity or Islam in the same format???
Will they still fight for religious freedom?
Does freedom of religion mean a prohibition on wearing tefillin?
So what is freedom?
Atish, what stupidity….
This is a Jewish state, understand that.
May the perpetrator not see the light of day.
I have a good friend, a non-religious guy who set up a tefillin stand next to his kiosk. Dozens of young people come every day to put them on. He tells me that people come to him and yell at him and even once threw his tefillin on the floor. Unbelievable. The best part of the story is that most of the anti-Semites are elderly people, the youngest of whom are in their 60s/70s… which explains the fact that this is an extinct breed. Frustrated by the fact that they see with their eyes how the generation they are leaving behind is. Jewish believers are proud of their Judaism and are strongly connected. It's really hard… I feel a little sorry for them
I am a secular person who is proud of my Judaism.
What is this thing? Are the children finished in Chabad Village? What did they lose in Haifa? If tomorrow someone opens a booth in Chabad Village for studying evolution, it will end in much more violence. A bunch of hypocrites
I did not understand
Is this how you come to justify attacking with a knife a boy who came to fulfill a mitzvah that our ancestors and grandfathers devoutly performed, and a Chabadnik came to help him?
They didn't lose, you lost and they help you find again. By the way, Chabadniks live not only in the Chabad village, as Jews are everywhere. Ghettos don't speak to us.
Because evolution is heresy. What is this stupid response?? The main thing is to respond??? Hello Jewish state…….
It's okay to respond, but why with stupidity and ignorance? Enough of babbling nonsense! Go study Torah and then the real questions will begin for you.
There are many Jewish anti-Semites in Haifa.
Scary
Those who don't know who these anti-Semites are are usually Smolensk
Anti-Haredi and anti-religious coercion are not anti-Semitic
There is no justification for violence of any kind! Whoever wants to, let them put on tefillin; whoever doesn't, don't. Chabad people do not impose themselves on anyone, the attacker must be punished to the full extent of the law.
Only a week's detention! And a fine of 2500 NIS.
If less then there is no governance!
How much garbage can be absorbed here?
A city in neglect and no freedom here?
And when you're on the left, flying abroad and needing help - there's the Chabad House of course! What do you have to do with democracy? Everything according to what you want or not, without considering others! By the way, Chabadniks are enlisting! And the violence? That's you too! Everything you throw at the right is your own reflection! Shame!
Young people are being attacked for putting on tefillin, where have we come to, the city is filled with hatred towards the Jewish religion and the municipality needs to think about why the city's residents hate the religious. Do joint activities and bring hearts together.
At this rate, I have no reason to stay in Haifa. And the city of Haifa is embarrassed.
This is not a discourse, the progressives and the leaders of the left are criminals, habitual offenders who want to burn the country down. They belong in prison, in administrative detention, whatever they may be.
The decline of the people of Israel continues. Freedom of worship is not maintained in the city squares.
Every person has the right to be free, including those who do not wish to pray and wear tefillin.
Commentator Gal writes that the left-wing protesters should be run over. In my opinion, the man is a dangerous, violent man who should be in prison.
Definitely
Let them put tefillin on Shabbat near the schools, in America they don't allow missionary activities. Do it on Shabbat. When all the Haredim enlist, I will be able to visit my grandchildren on the train ride on Shabbat.
Do you put on tefillin on Shabbat? Poor thing!
We will see those great heroes as a Muslim praying in the middle of the street. It is time to set up thousands of tefillin stations across the country and for citizens to protect Chabad members with their bodies. It is time for them to understand that anyone who messes with our religion will encounter insane aggression.
Hahahaha Tefillin on Shabbat? Strong
The more tefillin, the better for the people of Israel!
What happened to the students who were injured by the knife? A position should be guarded if a guard from the Haifa Municipality
Whoever wants to lay teflin, they don't force boys to lay teflin. A democratic country, you can do whatever you want to the students. The man is probably drunk, sick, otherwise how could he not be afraid to pull out a knife? He acted like a terrorist. A speedy recovery from the trauma of the students. I hope nothing happened to them. Have a good week. Peace is what the country lacks. A guard should be in a good position so that they don't see the person with the knife.
The person who pulled out a knife apparently came prepared for the deed.
Overall, it's nice that there is an option to put on tefillin and no one is forcing you...
And from the moment he puts on tefillin, he will have an experience and his curiosity will be satisfied…
Not a hair of the boy's head will fall, and there will be no harm to him...an experience..
Although the act of violence is wrong, I don't think your newspaper should normalize Chabad booths outside schools, which are missionary activity. And write in the article about the booths for putting on tefillin "as is customary on Fridays"
And how can we normalize it, because we are Jews and this is our tradition and religion,
That's right. The school should provide students with Jewish concepts, take them on a Bar Mitzvah journey, and even provide tefillin to every student who requests it, with payment of course for those who can afford it. Why would there be a need for tefillin stands when everyone wears them of their own free will?
It is certainly possible to normalize, this is a Jewish state, and tefillin is one of the symbols of a Jew. Anyone who does not like being part of the Jewish people can say goodbye.
Those people with a sweet voice in academia, law and the media are the acronym Emet. Their truth comes from the newspaper Pravda (Truth in Russian). This left is the last bastion of damned communism. They call themselves Truth and they are the lie. Sweet but violent who pull out knives against children.
By what right do we not allow the wearing of tefillin in schools? We are Jews… Why are we not being addressed in schools? It is time for Judaism to receive a place of honor in schools and for students to know our tradition and roots. We are in this country because of Judaism and our history as a people…
By what right do they place a brainwashing and religious coercion stand next to Bis?? And more for the boys who will soon be drafted..that these delusional boys, instead of setting up stands and engaging in attempted brain theft, will enlist!!! Dodgers, go to the army!! I am a mother of two students who will soon be drafted and I am furious about these stands.
Thanks to the law that allows this!
But does not allow any violence!
So too in the IDF, there is law and order during combat!
A shallow, superficial and misleading answer!
You've heard about freedom of expression and movement.
A lady disconnected from basic Jewish values and with self-hatred!
So why exactly do they go to the army!?
If not to serve and protect the "citizens of the Jewish state"!?
You will also see that in the end your children themselves will become Chabadniks and set up a tefillin stand. No one can separate a Jew from the Holy One, blessed be He, because the soul of your children is a part of God Himself and they are His only sons.
Welfare should take your children away.
Nazi.
By what right have you been forcing us to close the Moriah and Horeb highway on Saturday for two years?
Throw you in jail.
Look in the mirror and be ashamed.
In a democracy, whoever wants to offer to whoever wants to put on tefillin is allowed.
This is not a violation of the law.
I wonder why you don't understand such a basic fact.
This does not indicate special intelligence.
It's a shame to read such nonsense.
And it's interesting that you didn't condemn the attack on the children with a knife!
Clarification: I am completely secular and not a BIBist, I just believe in democracy and freedom of speech and action.
Michal Michal Michal It's not a shame to just type, check the facts, most of the Chabadniks are enlisting and learning the ropes, so this claim is dropped and, moreover, no one forces them to wear tefillin, and believe me, wearing tefillin does not result in brainwashing. Check for yourself whether the Reformers who wear tefillin and still have their brains full of nonsense
So I suggest you go to one of the stalls with a knife and take care of the matter once and for all, what do you say?
This is not religious coercion. Whoever wants to wear tefillin and whoever doesn't want to don't. Religious coercion is when someone is forced to wear something by force, and it has never happened that they were forced. They ask, "Do you want to?" And whoever doesn't want to continues on. Where is the coercion here?
Blind hatred and knife-wielding
Chabad Hasidim enlist in the army
Really blind hatred, you should apologize..
What are you afraid of?? That your children won't follow your path?? After all, you are parents, letting your child develop in his own direction… But God forbid he thinks differently from me, because my path is the most correct..
Hypocrisy
Horrifying! The police are giving in to left-wing protesters in all their violent acts and here is the result! Poor innocent students who were attacked because of their Jewishness!
The incitement of Kaplan, Lieberman, Lapid, Golan and Gantz is seeping through. Scary….
Another one who thinks that religion belongs to the right and there are no religious leftists.
Like religion belongs to the Eastern Orthodox Church
A shallow, superficial and misleading answer!
You've heard about freedom of expression and movement.
A lady disconnected from basic Jewish values and with self-hatred!
So why exactly do they go to the army!?
If not to serve and protect the "citizens of the Jewish state"!?
Tefillin stalls will also increase.
And to the disgruntled, drink cold water and continue to demonstrate.
There was the blood of teenagers and even an adult. The teenager's decision and no one forced him. It's scary that that person came out with the knife. He behaved like a criminal. Fear. So what's going on here? A security officer. An adult with a knife threatens the teenager. What's going on here? Hysterical people. I raised children who also went through a process like the story says, where they were asked to put on tefillin. And they put on tefillin. Today they are fathers of children. And they are traditionalists. And nothing happened. Enough panic!
Anyone can put on tefillin at school and the principals can jump in.
Unnecessary and harmful violence in any case. The Haredim are very violent, Eyal. Look at what happens in their protests against their truancy. In any case, tefillin near a high school doesn't seem problematic.
Anti-Semitic liar
It is mandatory to remove all tefillin stands from public spaces, including those who operate them.
Instead of working, study and enlist.
We don't need the stalls.
The blocking of roads on Saturday and the gatherings of the Church of the Mindless must also be removed from the public sphere.
By what right do we not allow the wearing of tefillin inside schools? We are Jews…why are we not being addressed in schools? It is time for Judaism to receive a place of honor in schools and for students to learn about our tradition and roots.
So you're in favor of the attack, I understand? And also against freedom of religion? In general, or only when it concerns Jews? I have a feeling it's the second option.
Iris, you must be run over every Saturday in Horeb, why do you force closed roads on us every Saturday?
Creatures like you must be thrown out of the public space…
You don't need to, most of the people need to and even want to.. Get out of our space wherever possible, with demonstrations that have no point, except for dictatorship..
disgrace
Sexual harassment. Tearing up signs with pictures of the fallen. Pulling out knives. Spitting on soldiers.
And let's not forget the shooting of flares at the Prime Minister's house.
The left has become as violent and extreme as it brought 7.10 upon us with its refusal and rants, now it is going off the rails on the restoration of democracy and the separation of powers. It is time to put an end to this trolling.
Here comes the violent left again