Arab Mob Attacks Jews in Jerusalem

JERUSALEM – Two civilian employees of the defence ministry are recovering from a near-death experience last Monday.

The two were travelling to Mount Scopus in Jerusalem when they accidentally made a wrong turn and ended up stuck in a traffic jam between two Arab cars. 

A crowd of Arab youths then showed up and began throwing rocks at them.

At one point the rock throwers, some of whom were students from a nearby school, approached the vehicle and slammed a large stone into the windshield. The rock struck the driver, Yehuda Attias, in the head. Attias, who was all bloody, hit the gas and the two Israelis then fled towards a nearby hotel. They called security and rescue forces and were taken to the hospital. Attias has since been hospitalized several times because of the severe head injuries.

Eliezer Hakshur, Attias’ brother-in-law, said that it was a miracle Attias survived.

“He is suffering from headaches and has twice been hospitalized with vomiting and chills,” Hakshur said, adding the rock throwers were “probably a group of children from the nearby Arab school who realized the two were stuck and called their friends who began to throw rocks at them. They smashed the car’s windshield and my brother-in-law’s head. He had deep cuts and his head is full of stitches.”

He added that the whole incident could have ended much differently. 

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