By Sam Sokol: A group of Jews verbally and physically assaulted on Sunday a woman for sitting at the front of a public bus in Jerusalem, in an attempt to enforce a modesty code embraced by some members of the Haredi community.
The victim, speaking on condition of anonymity, told the YedNet news site that she was targeted while riding a bus on route 577 between Jerusalem and the Jewish city of Elad operated by the Kavim company.
“On the way home, a group of 20 guys got on the bus, and decided that it didn’t suit them that I was sitting in the front,” she told the news site, explaining that during the trip she suffered from “nausea and vomiting, and sitting in the back was not good for me, to say the least.”