Religious Jews target of latest attacks by Palestinians

The streets of Meah Shearim in Jerusalem were nearly deserted on Tuesday (Oct. 13), the day a Palestinian terrorist rammed his car into a crowd of religious Jews a block away. Religion News Service photo by Michele Chabin

Michele Chabin | October 13, 2015

JERUSALEM (RNS) Sigalit Greenbaum, who works in a bakery in the ultra-Orthodox Meah Shearim neighborhood in Jerusalem, has a great deal of faith in God.

But on Tuesday morning (Oct. 13), when a Palestinian rammed a car into a group of religious Jews waiting for a bus up the street, she positioned a tall metal pastry strand in front of an opening in her bakery’s counter, to prevent any potential attackers from entering.

“I feel shaken,” Greenbaum said of the surge in Palestinian attacks since the 2014 war with Hamas, and especially during the past month. “On the news they’re saying the terrorists are targeting soldiers and religious Jews, and we’re religious.”

While no one tracks the number of religious versus secular Jews who have been injured or killed in attacks, religious Jews “are grossly overrepresented in the number of victims of stabbings and vehicular terrorist attacks,” said Amichai Magen, a researcher at the Israel-based International Institute for Counter-Terrorism.

http://www.religionnews.com/2015/10/13/religious-jews-target-latest-attacks-palestinians/

The headline should read "Palestinian Terrorists", not "Palestinians".