‘Are dogs allowed here?’ Haredi family abuses IDF soldiers on a train
‘Get the smell of trash out of here,’ one member of group says, as another calls them ‘shiksa’; no immediate comment from the military
An ultra-Orthodox family, including young children, yelled abuse at a group of female soldiers traveling on a train, in footage aired Tuesday.
Part of the encounter was recorded by the soldiers. Channel 12 news obscured the identities of those involved.
The news outlet said that the group involved in the incident was a family. It did not specify when the incident took place, or where the train was traveling to.
The video begins with members of the group chanting: “We will die and not be drafted. To prison and not to the army.”
“Wait, you can take dogs on the train? How do they get on?” a boy says.
A woman responds: “A cleaning company brought the dumpster and dumped all the trash cans here. What don’t you understand?”
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A boy then tells the rest of the group to “calm down, she’s crying.”
“Get the smell of trash out of here,” another says.
A woman then walks past the soldiers, covering her eyes as she says “no need to see a shiksa,” using the derogatory term for a non-Jewish woman.
There was no immediate comment on the incident from the IDF.
Housing Minister Yitzhak Goldknopf, leader of the ultra-Orthodox United Torah Judaism, condemned the incident, saying “the behavior that does not represent the general Torah-observant public.”
Many in the ultra-Orthodox community shun the mandatory military service that applies to the majority of Israelis, and the community has historically enjoyed blanket exemptions from the army in favor of religious studies.
There have been a number of incidents in recent years in which soldiers were physically attacked by members of the Haredi community.
