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Police escort a number of teenage Arabs charged with the crime. Inset: The attack.

9 Arabs Arrested for Attacking Two Jews in J’lem

Police arrested nine Arabs from east Jerusalem over the past week in connection with a snowball attack against two haredim during the snowstorm a week and a half ago. Jerusalem received over 20 cm of snow in the biggest storm since 1992.

A group of approximately 100 Arabs, mostly teenagers, spent much of the morning hanging out at Damascus Gate and pelting everyone who entered or exited Damascus Gate – Jews, Arabs, and tourists alike – with dozens of snowballs, despite pleas to stop from various parties. But the innocent snowball fight got out of hand when two haredim tried to leave Damascus Gate and were accosted by approximately twenty Arabs, who threw snowballs at them from less than a meter away and tried to steal one of their hats.

A video taken of the incident went viral on Facebook with thousands of people expressing disgust. Police arrested three Arabs last weekend and six Arabs from the Old City on Sunday night, both minors and adults. The Jerusalem Magistrates Court extended the remand of three of the Arabs arrested last week for four days.

One of the original uploads of the video which currently has over 150,000 views:

A video Moshe Kravitsky created likening the incident to Nazi Germany which currently has over 50,000 views:

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8 Comments

  • Chochom

    Please stop posting the video that compares the snowball fight to the holocaust and to the child with his hands in the air.

    This “moish” the “comedian” should remove this video and issue and apology.

    • Why not?

      What’s with the self hate? This is exactly how it all started in the war. Youth ganging up & spreading hate! This was not some innocent snowball fight as you seem to believe! There is no need for apology for educating the public & self defense!

  • Boruch Hashem

    I’m so glad this video was spread around that lead to the arrests. This was truly a horrible sight. Nine down, too many to go!

  • GOOD!!!

    So glad to hear they were arrested!!! It was terrible what they did to those boys who were just going about their daily business!!!

    I’m sooooo glad they were found!!!!!!!!!!!!

  • B"H

    it was so sad to watch! B’H! Question- why is Israel so good to these evil people? Let Israel do what the Arabs did to the Jews.