NYPD: Bochurim Not Intended Target of Firebomb

Two Israeli yeshiva students thought that they were the intended victims of a Molotov cocktail that exploded near them on a Manhattan sidewalk on Friday afternoon, but police now say the manager of a neighborhood food-cart storage business was the actual target.

From The Gothamist: 

The as-yet-unidentified assailant hurled a bottle filled with combustible liquid on West 37th Street between Eighth and Ninth avenues, at about 1:30 p.m. on Friday. It landed in the vicinity of yeshiva students Yosef Rachimi and Yisrael Gadasi, visiting from Israel, as well as Saleh Hegazy, owner of Hegazy Food Vendor. The bottle smashed harmlessly on the pavement and Hegazy extinguished the flames with water.

“Everybody was scared,” Hegazy told the Daily News.

The teens are studying at a Brooklyn yeshiva and were walking around the neighborhood to urge Jewish-owned businesses to perform good deeds. They believed they were the targets of the firebomb.

“I’m in complete shock,” Rachimi told the New York Post. “In 2015, an explosive bottle was thrown at a Jew in the streets of New York.”

Rachimi told the News a responding cop refused to take a report. “He basically said, ‘No injuries, nothing happened, let’s move on,'” Rachimi said. An NYPD spokesman said he did not have information on this exchange.

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4 Comments

  • yakov

    those guys in pic are Arabs I see them all the time by and B and H, pure anti-Semites, as usual NYPD doesnt do anything, in order to show “crime is going down” to make de bozo look good.