Deputy Defense Minister Eli Ben-Dahan reacted, Thursday morning, to the Wednesday-evening attack on the chief rabbi of Kiryat Gat by saying, "I take a harsh view on the penetration and spread of activists from the haredi-religious public who are fighting against those who support induction into the Israel Defense Forces and [against] haredi-religious soldiers themselves.
Rabbi Ben-Dahan repeated his call for state authorities to very seriously address these acts of violence and take all the necessary measures to stop them. This harming of a city rabbi is an escalation and we must not let it pass it in silence."