Haaretz: hypocrisy and lies

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’.

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.

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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.