Beit Shemesh Mayor Aliza Bloch was besieged for about an hour inside a building in the Ramat Beit Shemesh B neighborhood, where she arrived to closely monitor a new Vizhnitz Hassidic school.
Haredim who arrived at the scene smashed Bloch's car, gathered and burned trash cans outside the building. Police forces who arrived at the scene rescued her from the building.