Arab gang uses broken bottle to slash ‘dirty Jew’ in Tel Aviv

A Jewish teenager was injured Tuesday night in Tel Aviv by an Arab gang who stabbed him with a broken bottle and hurled abuse at him, calling him a “dirty Jew,” police say.

Sahar Tosiya, 17, required medical treatment after he was assaulted in a park on Lavon Street in the south of the city.

The teenager explained he had been going to the park regularly to train in preparation ahead of his induction into the IDF and had already had a previous verbal clash with the gang that attacked him.

“It all began two weeks ago when I went out to exercise in the park on Lavon Street in Tel Aviv,” he said. “A gang of five Arab youths saw me exercising and started to shout at me ‘dirty Jew’,” he tells Channel 2.

Tosiya quickly left the park on that occasion but on Tuesday night he went back again to continue in his training. After checking to make sure the gang was not in sight he began his routine.

As he was doing some push-ups he noticed that one of the youths was coming up to him and cursing him.

“One of them said to me, ‘Look, the dirty Jew has come back again.’ He strangled me and then all five joined him,” he said. I didn’t know what to do, I pushed one of them, I heard he broke his hand and I tried to escape, but they knocked me to the floor.”

— Stuart Winer