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Tuesday, January 6, 2026
Shas decries ‘horrific scenes’ in Jerusalem after bus kills protester
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The ultra-Orthodox Shas party expresses its shock at this evening’s death of a young Haredi protester who was run over by a bus in Jerusalem.
“We are shaken to the depths of our souls by the grave ramming incident in Jerusalem, in which a Haredi young man was run over and killed during a protest. The horrific scenes of a bus driver wildly driving into a crowd of people, dragging a young man for dozens of meters, are chilling and deeply disturbing, and must not be met with silence,” the party says in a statement.
“We demand from the police an immediate, thorough and uncompromising investigation, and full justice for those responsible. The blood of Haredi men is not cheap.”
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