The scene has moved to Israel, Naama Margolese tearfully described in a television interview how a "black men" the harassed while walking to her school and called prostitute for his dress indecently. The attack was not only reprehensible for being a woman but because she has just eight years, an age in which he still plays with dolls and most certain is that at home never heard such insults. The attack, which took place in the city of Bet Shemesh-southwest of Jerusalem, has unleashed the wrath of millions of Israelis who see a religious community, the ultra-Orthodox, gradually impose its standards of conduct, whether believers or not. In addition, outside of Israel the reactions have been greater because you have the mistaken idea that the Jewish community is uniform, monolithic, in which all believe and think alike about their religion, and no attacks among its members. Confusion is common rule. It is associated with "Israeli" with "Jew" when Israel is being born in the State of Israel. We then find Israeli Jews, Christians, Arabs, Muslims, Druze, etc.. Jewish-is worth clarifying who profess Judaism or Jewish mother is born. That means, you can be Jewish and declared atheist or agnostic. In Israel, a country that has formed on the basis of immigration, 80% of its population is Jewish component is ethnic, cultural or religious and there are from Sephardic, dress mules Ashkenazi, secular, traditional, even religious reformist moderates and radicals – the ultra-Orthodox. These are known as Haredi-haredi the word, "those who fear God" – and those who are in the midst of the controversy over his performance to the small Naama and women in general. Account for 10% of total Israeli population and are easy to recognize in the cities by their clothing which some mistakenly call "very Jewish": The men wear long black coats and hats of the time-nineteenth century Europe, and women skirts and blouses with sleeves to the wrists or elbows. Usually, the "black", as they often call them, living apart in their own localities to avoid mixing with a world that considered corrupt and distant from God. The problem arises when they have contact with this reality that hate and try to impose certain lines of conduct for the majority of Israelis can be shocking. In their neighborhoods, for example, are commonly found hanging large signs warning visitors to dress "modestly." Not think that a girl walk through Mea Sharim wearing a short skirt or a pronounced cleavage. You run the risk of being stoned by shameless. Recently, hung pictures on the Internet showing an ultra-Orthodox group violently tossing chairs against a group of women wearing shorts near the Western Wall, the holiest site in Judaism. While most of the Israeli population is take the party in peace with the Haredi and prefers not to provoke the authorities have reported an increase in confrontations with religious radicals in which women are most affected. "Talking to people here it is apparent that there is a growing religious tension," said BBC correspondent in Jerusalem, Jon Donnison. "Let them call girls prostitutes for eight years is a shock to many Israelis," he said. One of the most notorious cases recently was Rosenblit Tanya, who rejected the request for an ultra-Orthodox to sit in the back of a bus traveling from Ashdod to Jerusalem. Although the laws in Israel punish discrimination of any kind, is increasingly accepted that women feel so voluntarily, in the spaces at the bottom of the buses not to provoke the religious. Rosenblit, a secular Jew, refused. "I demanded that I sit at the bottom because the Jews can not sit behind the women. I refused. Ashdod is my city and I live in a democratic country, "said Tanya. "People, let alone a minority religious group can not tell me where I have to sit," he said. Another case was struck from the soldier Doron Matalon, who also refused to go to the back of the bus despite the insistence of a religious devotee, who upon hearing the negative began shouting "whore." Matalon said that the man replied: "You can go to the bottom if you want. Just as you will not see my face, I do not want to see yours. " Moreover, he insisted he was "serving our country, which unfortunately also means that I am defending you." The attacks appear to have filled the patience of many in Israel, especially women who have begun to protest against discrimination and religious fundamentalism. Since there were massive marches in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv and Beit Shemesh with the participation of major political leaders like Tzipi Livni, leader of the opposition party Kadima, and Limor Livnat, Minister of Culture today. Even the government has already made its position clear. President Shimon Peres said that "we are fighting for the soul of the nation." Meanwhile, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said that Israel is a "democratic, western and liberal" in which "the public sphere is open and safe for all." Netanyahu said he ordered police to act to counter any type of aggression and the press is talk that there are agents infiltrated the religious radicals whom they consider a "risk to national security." That this label is awarded to the ultra-Orthodox and, as with Palestinian terrorist groups, has caused discomfort in some religious leaders as the country's Ashkenazi chief rabbi, Yona Metzger, who accused the journalists have got the problem "of all proportion ". Even Metzger recalled the important role they have met the Haredi long in the conservation of the Jewish faith, which is the basis of the current Israeli state was founded in 1948. So the ultra-Orthodox are the bad guys, how much is in a certain discrimination against women?, Despite being a minority, do you have some kind of political influence?, And above all, are able to put at risk the State of Israel as we know it?. This entry was posted on Human Rights, History, International, Middle East and tagged BBC, Benjamin Netanyahu, Israel, Jerusalem, Judaism, the Western Wall, Shimon Peres, Torah, ultra-Orthodox. Bookmark the permalink. We hope this second part, no doubt interesting. With Christians and Muslims would be just the thing where it is permitted. Already the hell that first devised it to charge the dead of the apple to Eve, it was definitely a misogynist at all costs and Saudi Arabia had until recently (today and tomorrow perhaps) parents who killed the firstborn if he had the misfortune of being born female.

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