Haredi lawmaker Pindrus suggests opposition MK Lazimi be shot for protesting; she files police complaint

United Torah Judaism MK Yitzhak Pindrus sparks furor in the Knesset Education Committee after suggesting that an opposition lawmaker be shot for protesting.

Yesh Atid MK Adi Azuz asks Pindrus, who has in the past expressed support for police to open fire on anti-government protesters who block roads, if he is in favor of police taking such action against his own party leader, Yitzhak Goldknopf.

The UTJ chairman led last week’s Haredi anti-draft protest, during which thousands of ultra-Orthodox men blocked Route 1 for several hours, with Goldknopf at the front of the pack in his armored motorcade.

Responding to the question, Pindrus, smiling, says: “Start with Naama Lazimi,” a reference to the Democrats MK.

Lazimi is a prominent figure among the anti-government protest movement, and has participated in multiple protests blocking roads. She has also been physically roughed up and verbally accosted by police at a number of protests, which she has said amounts to assault and is part of a larger police effort to suppress democracy.

Lazimi responds on X that Pindrus’s comments are a “full-on endorsement of bloodshed.” She files a police complaint against him, according to Hebrew media.

“I no longer have words to describe what they’ve done to the Knesset,” she writes. “Let me be clear, this is just the preview of what is to come and it’s on us to kick them out of our lives and rebuild a normal society.”

“You won’t scare me and you won’t threaten me,” she adds.