Police this morning arrested two grandchildren of Rabbi Dov Lior, ages 12 and 19, for allegedly chucking objects at cars passing on a street near the right-wing religious Zionist leader’s Jerusalem home.
The two were taken in for questioning at the Shalem police station in East Jerusalem, according to police.
“In the morning, a report from a passerby was received on the police hotline about objects being thrown from a house yard at vehicles driving on a street adjacent to the a-Tur neighborhood in Jerusalem,” the police say in statement.
Members of Lior’s family told Israel National News that the two had been throwing “water balloons and objects” at drivers as a prank while staying at their grandfather’s home.
Lior is the former chief rabbi of the West Bank settlement of Kiryat Arba, next to Hebron.
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