Jerusalem police detained a student from the Shuvu Banim yeshiva in the Moslem quarter Sunday for spitting in the face of a female soldier at the Western Wall plaza and calling her a “prostitute” because of her “immodest” attire.
Shuvu Banim students, noted for the radical behavior, have harassed their Arab neighbors in the past.
After the incident, some 30 of the yeshiva boy’s colleagues gathered around the police station where he was being held and demanded loudly that he be released. The students reportedly attacked police, policemen then used force to disperse the crowd and detained 10 students.
A police officer noted Sunday a number of similar harassments in the past few weeks by Shuvu Banim students of female soldiers and tourists at the Wall for “immodest” dress.
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