Woman Berates Chareidi Girls In Ramat Gan Park

Chareidi schoolgirls from Bnei Brak were playing in the Marom Neve neighborhood of Ramat Gan when they came under a vicious verbal attack by a local woman.

“You are like termites, don’t come here,” she snapped at them. “We pay four million shekels for an apartment here, you don’t belong. You have your own city. You are not connected [to us] in any way or shape. We are different peoples. This is our place, don’t come to us.”

She claimed the girls broke a swing. The girls said it broke during normal use. Either way, there was no excuse for her hateful tirade.

The woman was unrepentant, telling Channel 13, “I bought an apartment in a luxury neighborhood for millions to have these facilities of the standard of living. I go down with the baby and I can’t use the facilities, because there are simply chareidim all the time. Until I exploded after dozens of girls went up to the facility and jumped on it and broke it.”

“That’s what I think about them,” she said. “I don’t like religious people and certainly not chareidim, that’s me. No question about it, I firmly stand behind my words.”

Politicians lambasted her behavior.

“I strongly condemn the violent and horrifying verbal antisemitism against the chareidi public,” Netanyahu tweeted. “The wild incitement of Lapid and Lieberman against the chareidi public is showing its signs,” he added, calling on “those politicians, who for years have been inciting against the chareidim to condemn the incitement.”

“For several weeks, we have warned that the incitement and rebellion of Lapid and his friends against the democratic results of the elections could lead to violence and bloodshed against the chareidi public,” MK Yisroel Eichler of UTJ said. “The woman who shouted at the chareidim, ‘animals and termites’ just because they dared to visit a park in Ramat Gan is not alone in the Israeli landscape. Unfortunately, there are many of these, who are led after the froth of Lieberman’s inciting lips against those who observe and study Torah. The path of chareidim carted to a landfill in wheelbarrows is already paved.”

“This is a warning call before the disaster that anti-chareidi violence will bring about,” Eichler concluded.

Shai Glick, CEO of the Betzalmo human rights organization, wrote to the Ministry of Justice and the Police Commissioner, “If something like this happened abroad to a Jewish family, the whole world would have been rightly upset and it would have been called an antisemitic incident for all intents and purposes. This is no less serious, and on the contrary, it is an extremely dangerous phenomenon. I urge you to take action with the Israel Police.”

{Matzav.com Israel}