Rabbi Moshe Porush, a member of the Jerusalem city council and his son Menahem, political secretary of the Agudas Israel Organization, were assaulted in the Mea Shearim district of the city last night by a gang of youths whom they identified with the Neturei Karta, ultra-Orthodox sect.
The father and son were manhandled, spat upon and insulted before they were extricated from the situation by a passing cab driver. The younger man was hurt severely enough to require several days of bed rest. Both have been the butts of a leaflet by the Neturei Karta which attacked them for obtaining police permission to hold a demonstration against the building of a pool in this city in which mixed bathing will be permitted.
A call for an Israel-wide educational campaign against the “terror” of the Satmar Rebbe and his Neturei Karta followers in the United States was urged here today by Dr. S.Y. Rosenberg, Mizrachi leader and Deputy Minister of Social Welfare. Addressing a press conference on his return from attending two welfare conferences in the United States, Dr. Rosenberg voiced bitter criticism of the “terror of the Satmar Chassidim” against Jewish organizations and communities in America.
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