After shocking footage emerged from Bnei Brak showing an attempted assault on two female IDF soldiers who required special police extraction, one thing is clear: this was not protest. It was lawlessness.
The images were ugly and dangerous. Soldiers in uniform, carrying out a lawful military assignment, were surrounded and harassed in the heart of an Israeli city. That is not dissent. That is anarchy.
Eyal Zamir, the IDF Chief of Staff, responded swiftly: “I view with gravity and strongly condemn the assault on IDF female soldiers who were carrying out a military mission earlier today in Bnei Brak.” His words were measured—but the reality demands more than words.
Police described the incident as the work of a “small group of lawbreakers.” Perhaps. But the videos circulating online suggest a broader atmosphere of hostility that cannot be ignored. When soldiers cannot safely walk through parts of their own country in uniform, something is deeply wrong.
