Yeshiva student arrested for brawl with clergy
By ETGAR LEFKOVITS
Jerusalem Post
Oct 10 2004
An Israeli Yeshiva student who spat at a Sunday morning procession
of Armenian clergymen in Jerusalem’s Old City and then scuffled with
them was placed under arrest, police and church officials said.
There were no injuries reported in the morning melee, but a chain of
the deputy Armenian patriarch of Jerusalem was broken during the brawl.
Police said that the suspect, a resident of the southern Israeli city
of Beersheba who was studying at a Jerusalem Yeshiva, claimed that
he spat at the procession of clergy “in order to protest idolatry.”
The suspect was to be remanded in a Jerusalem court Sunday afternoon.