Tefillin, prayer book found burned in luggage box of police bike set on fire by Haredi rioters in Bnei Brak

A police motorcycle set on fire this afternoon during mass Haredi riots in Bnei Brak contained tefillin and a prayer book in its luggage box, police say.

The items were burned in the attack, police said.

The commotion, which police are still trying to quell, erupted after residents spotted two female IDF officers as they were visiting a soldier at his home in the Haredi city.

Hundreds of residents then amassed into a mob and began chasing the servicewomen, who were eventually rescued by a handful of police officers.

Police handle tefillin and a prayer book taken from a motorcycle that was set on fire during riots in Bnei Brak, east of Tel Aviv, on February 15, 2026. (Social media; used in accordance with Clause 27a of the Copyright Law)

“During the rescue, lawbreakers began violent riots” in which participants were seen “throwing stones at police officers, overturning a police patrol car and setting fire to a police motorcycle that contained tefillin,” police say.