The wife of a Chabad shliach who was severely beaten by left-wing protesters at the Kaplan intersection in Tel Aviv on Sunday spoke to the media on Thursday about the horrifying incident. The couple had gone to Tel Aviv to visit their son and were on their way home, unaware that a spontaneous left-wing protest had begun on Kaplan, with no police stationed nearby. While waiting at a light, the protesters began banging on their car and shouting at them. The husband tried to continue driving but when protesters blocked their way and tried to smash their windows, he got out of the car to talk to the protesters so they wouldn’t break the glass. They responded by punching him in the face and one of them struck him with his flagpole and severely lacerated his cheek. The husband told his wife that he feels faint and he can’t see and she should drive him to the hospital. His wife panicked and asked for help but the protesters wouldn’t let them continue even as they saw him bleeding. She tried calling the police but couldn’t get through. Finally, one protester stepped in and drove them to the nearest hospital, where the husband required stitches for a very deep cut on his cheek. The woman said that in one of the videos of the scene, one of the protesters could be heard yelling: ‘Take out their motor,’ as if he wanted her husband to bleed to death. The woman said that her story wasn’t published until now because the media purposely ignored the story. “The whole time, I saw dozens of phones pointed at me but no one published them in the media. And there were dozens of protesters there. We didn’t want to publish it but friends said we had to. It’s important that the police deal with the rioters and bring them to justice.” The couple’s lawyer, Raphael Assulin, said: “The continuous incitement against the Chareidi sector as if it’s leading the people to dark times…causes people to commit unthinkable acts. My client was mercilessly attacked to the point of endangering his life only because of his Chareidi appearance. “My client is a broken person now and is afraid to leave the house for fear of being attacked again, not to mention the powerlessness of the police who did nothing during the incident. Even afterward, my client had to go to them with his last strength, bruised and beaten, to file a complaint. “I am hopeful that now that a complaint has been filed, the police will work hard to find those responsible for this terrible lynching.” (YWN Israel Desk – Jerusalem)
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