Overview
- A hostile crowd surrounded the soldiers in Bnei Brak, shouting slurs including “Nazis,” before police extracted them without reported injuries.
- Rioters torched a police motorcycle, overturned a police vehicle, and hurled objects and trash bins at officers during the confrontations.
- Police reported at least three injured officers and said 23 suspects have been detained as investigators review surveillance footage to identify others.
- The IDF said the women were Education Corps commanders on a welfare home visit, though many on the scene believed they were Military Police delivering draft notices.
- Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, IDF Chief Eyal Zamir, and prominent haredi rabbis condemned the violence, with community leaders urging denunciation or expulsion of rioters.