ON YOM KIPPUR JEWS HURL ROCKS AT CARS IN JERUSALEM

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These people are beyond mad.  This issue of aggressiveness on the day of Yom Kippur ~ the Day of Atonement ~ has been huge in Israel for years. Every year there are expressed wishes from all levels of society asking for protection for the Arab population but somehow it never materializes. Most of the damages are from younger Jews after services but no one mentions that in the international rush to condemn Muslim youth for their actions. It is telling that this annual stoning of vehicles occurs after the recitation of Kol Nidre and proof positive that these people, in this case the haredi, have less than no respect for non Jews.

MAP  (Medical Aid for Palestinians)

Failed Messiah

September 27, 2012

 (Ha'aretz) Hundreds of Jews threw stones at cars in Jerusalem for several hours on Yom Kippur eve, and eyewitnesses reported that dozens of vehicles were damaged.

Some of the cars damaged Tuesday night belonged to Palestinians; others were vehicles belonging to hospitals in the city. The eyewitnesses claim that policemen who arrived on the scene did nothing to stop the rock-throwing.

Stone-throwing on Yom Kippur eve has been commonplace on Hebron Street, in the southern part of the city, for several years. The thoroughfare is used by many Palestinians, inter alia to travel from Jerusalem to Bethlehem.

Some of the damaged cars belong to Palestinians who use Hebron Street in southern Jerusalem to travel to and from the city and Bethlehem. But many others stoned vehicles belong to hospitals.

This year, Rafael Lichman, an activist in the Yerushalmim ("Jerusalemites") movement warned police in writing before Yom Kippur that stoning cars had taken place in the previous years after Kol Nidre at that location, noted its previous oral warnings to police had not been heeded, and asked police to act to prevent the stoning from taking place this year.

"I hope that this appeal in writing will be taken more seriously than warnings relayed by phone in past years.”

Nevertheless, it appears the police did not respond forcefully to the rock throwing Tuesday night. When Kol Nidre ended, a mob of hundreds of people, mostly teens, massed at the corner of Hebron and Bethlehem streets.

"I left synagogue and went to that area at around 8:45 P.M., and the first car was damaged just a few minutes later," Lichman said.

He and other witnesses reported that dozens of cars were subsequently damaged. They said the crowd applauded each time a car was hit by a rock.

Another witness, Gideon Levy, 24, who lives in the area, said he counted 15 instances in which rocks damaged cars. "Each time a car passed by, even if it had a sticker saying 'in hospital service,' they tossed rocks at it," he said.

The haredi presence in southern Jerusalem has been rapidly growing over the past decade.