New Hope candidate attacked at Mahane Yehuda Market

• Published date: 15 March 2021
• Date: 15 March 2021
• Author: Ben Ariel
• Publication title: Israel National News (Israel)

The party's chairman, Gideon Sa'ar, who also took part in the visited, responded to the violent incident on his Twitter account.

"This evening we held an amazing tour of the Mahane Yehuda Market in Jerusalem. At the end, New Hope activists were again attacked, among them our candidate for the Knesset Ofer Berkovitch, by Bibists. We are not afraid. The answer to violence: 'Tav' (New Hope's letter on the voting slips -ed.) at the ballot box."

On Saturday night, a supporter of New Hope was attacked at party conference in Moshav Azaria. An egg was thrown at him while Likud activists demonstrated outside the event. Police separated the activists.

Sa'ar said the incident is "a glimpse of what awaits us as a country...