A woman was attacked in Beersheva reportedly for having the imprints of tefillin lines visible on her arms.
Noa Raz was physically assaulted last week by an ultra-Orthodox man in Beersheva’s central bus station, where she was waiting for a bus to her job in Tel Aviv, according to a news release issued by the Israel Religious Action Center.
According to the release, the man asked Raz twice if the imprints were from tefillin. When she told him they were, he began to kick and strangle her while screaming “women are an abomination.” Raz, who practices Conservative Judaism, reportedly broke free from the man and boarded her bus.
Raz is a member of Women of the Wall, which holds a monthly Rosh Chodesh women’s prayer service at the Western Wall. In March, haredi men threw chairs at the women as they prepared to pray at the Wall. — jta