The Utter Chaos Of Last Night (Part 1)

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Photo of the Chaotic Night

A stranded bride (pardon the blurry photo).

A bride who was on her way to her wedding last night finally jumped out of her car at the Matzliach Junction at Rishon LeZion and attempted to make it to her wedding on foot. Finally, a policeman helped her make it to the wedding venue.

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The Utter Chaos of Last Night (Part 1)

Solomon Tekah was buried last night. Tekah (variously spelled Teka and Tekka), was a 19-year-old Ethiopian-Israeli who was killed on Sunday near Haifa.

Solomon Tekah.

The circumstances of his death remain unclear. Apparently, an off-duty plainclothes policeman was in a park with his family when he saw an altercation in which a number of young men were beating up another young man.

The policeman approached the group to try to break up the melee. In the process he was attacked with sticks and rocks, and, feeling his life was threatened, radioed to the police station for backup. A short time thereafter, he took out his gun and fired.

According to the policeman, he aimed at the ground but the bullet ricocheted and hit Solomon Tekah.

According to other accounts (and apparently supported by the autopsy), Tekah was hit while he was lying on the sidewalk. Whether the bullet was a ricochet or not is unknown at this time.

Tekah was immediately rushed to the hospital where he died. The off-duty policeman was later arrested and will probably be charged with manslaughter. In the coming weeks, a hearing will be held to determine what happened and if the policeman will be charged. Another fact that has emerged in the last 24 hours is that Tekah had previously been detained a number of times by the police.

In any case, Tekah immediately became a symbol of alleged “police brutality” and alleged societal discriminatory treatment of Ethiopian-Israelis. Last night, Ethiopian-Israelis, adopting the same methods as used by the Black Lives Matter group in the U.S. and supported by various groups such as the ultra-leftist Breaking Silence, took to the streets with the resulting chaos and mayhem described below.

One of the dozens of riots that took place in Israel last night (photo Jerusalem Post).

In essence, the entire center of the country from Haifa to Ashkelon was shut down last night from 6 pm to 1 am. Estimates are that more than 100,000 motorists were stuck in place.

Ethiopian-Israelis blocked junctions and interchanges on every major highway such as on Highway 1 at the entrance to Jerusalem, on Highway 2 at the Olga and Yanai Interchanges; on Highway 4 at the Rishon LeZion, Yavne, Ashkelon, south Ashdod, and Kastina interchanges; on Highway 6 at the Soreq interchange; on Highway 20 (the Ayalon in Tel Aviv) at the La Guardia and Halacha interchanges; on Highway 38 at the Big Junction; on Highway 40 at the Bilu and Plugot Junctions; on Highway 431 at the Nesharim and Beer Yakov interchange; on Road 781 at the Bialik Junction.

When your humble servant writes “shut down”, he means shut down with traffic at a dead standstill. I know because my wife and I were stuck at the south Ashdod entrance from 6:15 pm last night until 12:05 am this morning. To get a sense of what was going on at Ashdod watch this short video–as you watch notice the complete absence of the police and what happened when one driver tried to break through the blockade. 

The same events that you saw in the video also played out in numerous other locations. Cars were overturned and set on fire, buses had windows smashed and were set on fire, police stations or the areas around them were set ablaze in locations like Rehovot, Ashkelon, and Kiryat Malachi. Violence flared in Netanya, Afula, Tel Aviv (Azrieli), Petah Tikva, Hadera. Whole sections of highway were shut down such as from Yad Mordechai to Netivot and elsewhere.

A police car turned upside down and set on fire in Tel Aviv.

A policeman bloodied:

In all, 111 policemen were treated for “injuries”–mostly caused by being pelted with rocks as they were passively standing about doing nothing.

Which is precisely the point that all of us kept making over and over again during the six hours that we waited on the entry bridge into Ashdod: “where are the police? why aren’t they doing something? why are the police ignoring the burning tires in the road and on the train track running underneath the bridge?”

Apparently, the reason they were doing nothing is that the strategy of dealing with the “demonstrators” was to do nothing (this was confirmed by the Head of the Police this morning who added that the Police wanted to give the demonstrators “freedom of expression”) . Finally around 1 am, some roads around the country began to be forcibly cleared.

How does your humble servant feel about all of this? Certainly the Ethiopian-Israelis have grievances that must be addressed. However, what happened last night exceeds all bounds–and there are more demonstrations scheduled for tonight.

One final note: what I have described so far only tells half of the story. Part 2 tomorrow will describe the strange scenes on the bridge, the bizarre way we finally got off the bridge, and why it took us another hour and a half to get home.