Posted on 01/07/2026 5:35:25 AM PST by Words Matter
Arab bus driver, Fakhri Khatib, plows into ultra Orthodox Jews haredim protesting draft. killing teenager Yosef Eisenthal and injuring several others.
Bus driver rams into ultra-Orthodox protesters in Jerusalem, 14-year-old killed.
Thousands of haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters gathered in Israel's capital on Tuesday evening • Driver arrested after killing one, injuring three others • Shas: "Haredi blood is not cheap."
By Miriam Sela-eitam, Tobias Holcman. JPost, January 6, 2026.
Yosef Eisenthal, a 14-year-old boy, was killed, and three were injured after a bus driver ran over ultra-Orthodox Jews during a haredi draft protest in Jerusalem on Tuesday.
"We responded to a severe collision involving a bus and several pedestrians," said United Hatzalah volunteer Dr. Aryeh Yaffe. "A male pedestrian was trapped unconscious under the vehicle. Fire and Rescue personnel extracted the patient, who was unfortunately found with no signs of life and pronounced deceased at the scene." https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/article-882514 Charedi teen killed in bus ramming during Jerusalem anti-enlistment protest
Charedi politicians claimed that the death of Yosef Eisentahl, 14, was the result of anti-Orthodox ‘incitement’.
Emergency services at the scene of a bus ramming that killed a Charedi teen and left three others injured during an anti-enlistment protest in Jerusalem on January 6, 2025 (Flash90)
By Jacob Jaffa. The JC, January 7, 2026
A Charedi teen was killed on Tuesday evening when a bus ran over anti-conscription protestors in Jerusalem, Israeli police have confirmed
Ambulance service Magen David Adom (MDA) reported that the bus hit three pedestrians on Shamgar Street, before continuing on to Ohel Yehoshua Street, where it hit a fourth individual.
The deceased boy has been identified in Hebrew media as Yosef Eisenthal, a 14-year-old from the city’s Ramot neighbourhood. https://www.thejc.com/news/israel/charedi-teen-killed-bus-ramming-jerusalem-protest-ujfi8apr
The judge was furious: '20 children were standing in front of him, he doesn't see and he drives on them? He is not the victim. This is not a political case'.
Haredim 10. January 7, 2026
The late Joseph Eisenthal).
The death of the late Yosef Eisenthal: The Jerusalem Magistrate's Court extended the detention of the bus driver, Fakhri Khatib, a 49-year-old resident of East Jerusalem, suspected of intentionally or negligently causing death and causing serious injury to a minor, by 9 days, until January 15.
https://ch10.co.il/news/1038121/
Don’t lose sight of ‘progressive’ Haaretz and the like’s incitement.
This is Haaretz at its most predictable and most poisonous: open incitement against the ultra-orthodox Jews, Haredim, wrapped in the paper’s trademark moral preening. The hypocrisy is staggering. The same outlet that habitually sanitizes racist Arab Islamic terror as “resistance,” - Haaretzism] and eagerly circulates distortions to vilify the IDF—Israel’s frontline defense against openly genocidal enemies—now demands moral authority to lecture Torah scholars on duty and sacrifice.
Haaretz grovels before global elites, laundering their narratives at Israel’s expense, while reserving its sharpest knives for the conscientious objectors (CO) Haredim: a community devoted to Jewish learning, spiritual continuity, and national survival in a form the paper neither respects nor understands. It denigrates an army it works relentlessly to undermine, yet cynically insists that those who dedicate their lives to Torah way of life must enlist in it. This is not concern for equality or security—it is contempt for Jewish tradition, masked as journalism.
An Orthodox Jewish boy killed by an Orthodox Muslim man.
It’s almost cliche.
You mean by an Islamist? I never heard the term “orthodox” applied to Muslims. Is it your invention?
He was in the street protesting the draft. In the past the Orthodox were 4F or whatever... not subject to military service. Not sure how that works. And they have Arab bus drivers?
Whoever decided that policy must not have been one of those Ashkezani high IQ types.
Judge presiding in the Netanyahu case dead in a car wreck. He was riding his motorcycle when a vehicle operating off road suddenly entered the roadway.
Probably just a coincidence...
What does Netanyahu judge got to do with the topic?
Thanks SunkenCiv
The closest I hear to an “orthodox” moslem is a wahabbist. That’s the term I usually hear... or fundamentalist.
Like you, I’ve never heard of an orthodox moslem.
The modifier of course *can* be applied to anything. For example, the layout of a Toyota Camry could be called an orthodox design. But I’ve never heard it applied to moslems.
Probably not useful as it could cause unnecessary confusion over in that part of the world.
No not my invention.
I think I first heard it from radio talkshow host Mike Church.
But it make sense. The koran dictates the terrorist behavior against non-Muslims.
An orthodox Muslim is instructed by the koran to convert, enslave or kill non-Muslims.
It’s a second deadly vehicle incident involving Israeli political and war situation... that’s how. So I thought I’d throw it into the mix since I haven’t seen it posted anywhere. I just stumbled across it this morning on X.
As for the draft dodger orthodox, we allowed contentious objectors... but that status would have been instantly revoked if they were advocates of a war.
Orthodox are odd ducks, nothing in their religion forbids war, they are not against it and support it, they just don’t want to participate.
Contentious objectors ... freaking autocorrect.
Proves my point:
The most dangerous things in Israel are cars and knives.
A bus, in this case…
There are 2,000,000 Arab mostly Muslim Israeli citizens with voting and essentially all other rights.
What do you mean by “support?”
You are also confusing ultra Orthodox zionists with ultra Orthodox Haredim.
interesting article, no mention of the other driver...sounds like a hit and run.
That’s a little suspicious. In the epicenter of surveillance, they don’t know who? Ok...
The Talmud is not Orthodox for Hebrews. It is from Babylon. Talmudic Jews are worshipping Ba’al, Satan, you know the Adversary of YHVH and Jesus? They are the Mormons of the Christian world.
Read it yourself to find out.
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