A Jewish Israeli teenager is being charged with committing a racist aggravated assault against an Arab man in Jerusalem’s Mahane Yehuda market.
According to today’s indictment, Yehiel Weissenstern, 18, along with two other men, saw an Arab man walking with a Jewish female coworker along Jerusalem’s Agrippas street, which borders the market, on the evening of September 4.
After questioning the couple and ascertaining that the man was Arab and the woman was Jewish, the defendant, who resides in the predominantly ultra-Orthodox city of Modiin Illit, and the two others allegedly hurled abuse at the man, drew a knife, and threatened to “fuck him up.”
They allegedly chased him, surrounded him and told him that he could no longer work in the market. Then they began punching him, and after he fell to the ground the defendant began kicking him, the indictment says.
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