‘Hitler, run away!’: Supreme Court judge’s neighbor describes Haredi rioters’ slurs

4 June 2026, 10:36 am

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A man holds a sticker depicting a swastika during a protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, at the home of Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg in Alon Shvut, June 3, 2026. (Chaim Goldberg/Flash90)

Beni Gesundheit, the neighbor of Supreme Court justice Noam Sohlberg, recounts being spat on and shouted at by the ultra-Orthodox anti-draft rioters who attacked the judge’s home in Alon Shvut last night.

“I heard a terrible noise. My wife and my daughter ran to the safe room,” he tells Army Radio, referring to the bombproof part of his home.

“I told [the rioters], ‘Go away’! [This is a] chilul Hashem!” he continues, using a Hebrew term for unbecoming behavior that Jewish tradition deems a desecration of the name of God.

“There were youths who spat in my face, and two of them shouted at me: ‘Hitler, run away!’ I managed to chase away at least some of them,” he says.