Lod
Just weeks after Lod riots, Imam Youssef Elbaz posted a video allegedly encouraging violence against police • Elbaz: “People have lost their minds.”
Clashes between Jewish and Arab Israelis in towns throughout the country were worse than the public believed, bordering on anarchy, said Border Police Commissioner Maj. Gen. Amir Cohen.
Arab woman receives kidney from a Jew killed in Lod riots
Yigal Yehoshua died after being struck in the head with a brick during Arab riots in the city. One of his kidneys went to a Christian Arab woman and other organs to three Israelis.
The organization has sent reinforcement to branches in southern Israel, providing supplies like home hospital equipment, wheelchairs, crutches, respiratory aids and more by the hundreds.
“The underlying instigator for the Farhud and for what we have seen this past week is raw anti-Semitism,” said former Knesset member Michal Cotler-Wunsh.
Right-wing politicians blast Israel Police Commissioner Yaakov Shabtai for his “outrageous” and “detached” remark.
Yigal Yehoshua was struck in the head by a brick while on his way home from a Torah-scroll dedication.
“According to the Torah, there is no permission to take the law into one’s hands and act violently. The work of restoring order must be left to the police,” said the Chief Rabbinate.
“We are in an emergency period ... at this time, massive reinforcement of forces on the ground is needed,” says Defense Minister Benny Gantz.
Meir Elran at the Institute for National Security Studies says social and economic progress in the Arab community means Israeli Arabs are now “less conservative, more academic and even more well-to-do, despite the huge economic gaps between Jews and Arabs.”
Israel Police Chief Kobi Shabtai said the situation harkened back to the start of the Second Intifada: “We have not seen this kind of violence since October 2000.”
Arab Israelis in Lod riot, set fire to synagogue
“Lod is burning,” says an Israeli police official as a mob hurled rocks and firebombs, and replaced Israeli flags in the city with Palestinian ones.
