Overview
- In a widely shared clip, Channel 12 journalist Inbar Twizer filmed herself and her husband confronting yeshiva youths collecting for hachnasas kallah, a fund that helps a bride pay for a wedding, while posting their faces without blur and pressing them on army service.
- After the video spread online, bank details for the family were circulated and donations poured in, with Matzav reporting more than 200,000 shekels raised within a day for the wedding expenses.
- The groom’s father said their car had been destroyed days earlier by a Hezbollah missile and described a flood of supportive calls and offers, including a photographer volunteering to shoot the wedding for free.
- Emes L’Yaakov Yisroel sent Twizer a formal legal warning through attorney Natan Rosenblatt demanding a public apology and damages, alleging public humiliation, invasion of privacy, and portraying the youths as draft dodgers.
- Twizer defended her conduct as a pleasant talk with two 18-year-olds and condemned non-enlistment, though other outlets reported one boy was a minor, a dispute over age and consent that could shape any legal case.