A yeshiva student who took part in the disruption of a Shas election rally in Modiin Illit about three weeks ago has apologized to Rabbi Yoram Sari, and a boycott imposed on him at his yeshiva has been lifted.
Apology After Shas Rally
Student Apologizes After Shas Rally Attack
A chance meeting led to a long conversation in Rabbi Yoram Sari's car, after which the student apologized and his yeshiva lifted a boycott against him.
The rally, held on the eve of the election campaign, was stormed by extremists who broke the windows of the study hall where it took place and threw gas at the participants. The outlet described the gas as pepper gas in one passage and as tear gas in another. Three people were lightly injured by the gas and treated at the scene. Rabbi Sari was forced to leave through a side exit.
After the incident, friends of one of the students involved decided to boycott him.
Roughly two weeks after the rally, Rabbi Sari was returning from the Western Wall with his driver when he picked up two hitchhiking students from the same yeshiva. As the car reached the area of the yeshiva, the two spotted the student who had been involved in the incident and pointed him out to the rabbi.
Rabbi Sari asked the student to come over to his car and spoke with him privately for a long time. He spoke gently, and his message was that even when there is a disagreement, there is no place for harming another person because of his views.
According to information obtained by Kikar HaShabbat, the student later apologized to the rabbi for his part in the incident. Following the apology, the boycott against him at the yeshiva was lifted.
צילום: Photo: H.L.
