Mount of Olives Police Post Fails to Allay Fears of Arab Rock-Throwing

(Jerusalem Post) Melanie Lidman - Three taxi drivers in a row refused to take me to the new police post on the Mount of Olives. "It's 10:15 a.m.," one driver explained. "At 10:30 a.m. the students at the boys' school will go out for recess and they'll just throw stones at us for fun." Activist groups have cited an increase in stone-throwing attacks against Jewish vehicles heading to the Mount of Olives cemetery in the past year.


2012-05-03 00:00:00

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