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JERUSALEM (JTA) – An Orthodox hared crowd chased a teenage girl along a main artery in the Beit Shemesh suburb of Jerusalem because of her "shameless" outfit ".
They complain about religiously motivated violence in the Ramat Beit Shemesh Bet neighborhood outside Jerusalem for years. Extremists frequently clash with police who are trying to remove placards calling for public segregation between the bades.
In a video of the most recent incident, we see the girl running in Nahar Hayarden Street, chased by dozens of screaming men. Orthodox costume haredi. Some neighborhood residents have complained of being harbaded and pushed to leave the neighborhood by extremists, who have recently announced a "war" against former haredi residents who frequent the neighborhood.
In response to the attack, dozens of and national-religious residents staged a rally to protest the lack of security.
"In one of the neighborhoods, every time I go to work, the children throw stones at me because I'm not modestly dressed" Walla News.
The car of Deputy Education Minister Meir Porush was badaulted in Beit Shemesh in April. A few months earlier, a soldier crossing the city crashed into a street lamp after his car was bombarded with stones and rubbish. Last month, a local extremist was arrested for breaking a woman's
iPhone. Many Israelis consider Beit Shemesh as a microcosm of the religious kulturkampf that plagues the country. The city took on significance in 2011 when local extremists began harbading and spitting on national-religious girls attending a school on a territory that they claimed belonged to the haredi community.
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