A yeshiva bochur who recently enlisted in the IDF described a painful and humiliating confrontation he says he experienced at a train station in Haifa, where a woman allegedly screamed at him for not serving in the military — and then spit in his face after he showed her proof that he had just signed his enlistment papers.
The incident came to public attention after media personality and Channel 14 host Yinon Magal shared on X a WhatsApp message he received from the young man, identified only as Ariel.
In the message, Ariel wrote: “Hi Yinon, I’m a yeshiva bochur and today I signed enlistment papers for the IDF. On my way back, a leftist woman around 60 years old started screaming at me about why I’m not enlisting. When I showed her the document proving that I signed up for the army, she spit in my face. And then people say this isn’t pure hatred of chareidim.”
Magal responded in disbelief, writing: “She spit in your face?? Crazy.”
Later Sunday evening, Ariel recounted the incident in an emotional interview with Yaakov Grodka on Kol Barama Radio’s main news program, describing the ordeal in greater detail.
“I was returning from the enlistment office after signing my IDF draft papers,” Ariel said. “At the train station, a woman around 60 years old approached me and started screaming that I’m a chareidi who doesn’t enlist. When I showed her the document proving that I had literally enlisted that very day, she simply spit in my face.”
The yeshiva bochur openly described the emotional toll the encounter took on him.
“After she spit on me, the thought crossed my mind that maybe this whole thing was a mistake and why I even needed to enlist in the first place,” he shared. “I felt deeply humiliated, and it took me a long time to calm down. At the same time, I’m not looking for anyone’s appreciation — this is something between me and myself, and I’m completely at peace with it.”
Ariel also said he believes the woman’s behavior reflected deep-seated hostility toward the chareidi community rather than anger over military service itself.
“That woman didn’t want to see chareidim in the army — she simply hates chareidim,” he said. “They hate that we are in the government, and they hate our very existence. While she was publicly humiliating me and spitting at me, several of her friends were standing there laughing together with her.”
{Matzav.com}
These evil chilonim have their days numbered.
HaShomim Cherpasam veEinom Meshivim
Ahn emeseh Ben torah
Ashrei yoladeto
You should go meichayil lechayal
I don’t think you’re insinuating that being charedi is cherposom. This is a lie, cherpasam, is a true cherpa, not some porek ohl, that’s mevazeh yiddishkeit. On the instigators like this lapid and cohorts the posuk says ושם רשעים ירקב! And I don’t say this with glee, it’s with pain on seeing our brothers have not only strayed, but have a greater hate than the worst anti Semitic. Sadly many of our biggest רוצחים have come from within. Trotsky, chamulnitzki, etc. This is nebach a whole generation were only now seeing their true colors. This Medina people glee over, they have worked very hard to create this. With great pain I say this, I don’t know who’s worse, neturei karma siding with external terrorists vs those siding with these internal terrorists.
The שונאי ישראל חילונים are going to burn. THEY DON’T WANT YOUR SERVICE ANYWAY.
READ THE TEA LEAVES!
The right move for him to do in such a situation was to tear up the enlistment paper in her face and throw it back into her face and take it as a סימן מן השמים that he shouldn’t enlist.
Worse case scenerio, even if wanted to join, the chilonim would surely understand and still take him into the army – anything to destroy another chareidi.
A truly chareidi bochur should not have enlisted.
You’re an idiot. Did you bother to actually read the article.
@ Bob – love it!
I hope he used the opportunity to daven and give berachos. I was also spit on (but by a fellow chareidi who was having a bad day trying to get through traffic making illegal turns), but I used it as an opportunity to daven and give berachos.
It is not a coincidence that this happened. If the Bochur had some seichel, he would have realized that unbeknownst to the woman, she was GD’s Shliach. So the woman did not spit in his face, the One Above did.
Unfortunately, the legacy of the atrocities perpetrated against the Teimanim lives strong. I’m sorry the bachur didn’t slap her in the face. She assaulted him, he had the legal and moral right to react in kind. I think that after a couple of months in the army, he would have developed the mental fortitude to do so. It could have deteriorated into serious fighting, but I’m sure all her friends were recording videos, and the truth would have come out.
Yes, make our day. Show videos– if they exist at all. I’ll bet they’re none.