 |  Shalom Pollack | Dear Friends and Supporters,
Whether Honenu is assisting defendants, ensuring that terrorists are prosecuted to the full extent of the law, or helping terror victims realize their often denied rights, Honenu is always on call, 24 hours a day. We are in the midst of the Three Weeks before Tisha B'Av, the time of the destruction of the Temple, a time when many people focus on the good deeds they can do, and due to the hardships caused by the Coronavirus pandemic, many people have increased their efforts in this direction.
At the bottom of this letter, Honenu volunteer Shalom Pollack suggests one way to raise awareness and money for the organization, which is funded completely by private donations. Please click here to donate. We need your support to continue providing crucial assistance to those in need of legal counsel. Below are just a few examples of Honenu's recent cases. To read more about these and other cases, click here. Rock terror strikes again Life sentence for terrorist who murdered Avraham Hasno, Hy"d Honenu appealed, case reopened State retracts assault indictment GSS harassment |  Damaged windshield; Photo credit: Courtesy of photographer | Rock terror strikes again In mid-June, terrorists threw rocks at a Jewish car on Route 458 near the village of al-Mughayyir. Honenu Attorney Chayim Bleicher, who is representing the driver, sent a letter to the police. From the letter: "The rock directly hit the car's front windshield, shattered it and penetrated the vehicle. Fortunately the horrific incident ended without bodily injury and my client succeeded in driving, while covered in glass shards, to Kochav HaShahar." See here for a similar incident from May.
The case, has been closed because police claim that the "perpetrator is unknown", even though the driver was informed by security forces that suspects had been apprehended. Honenu Attorney Chayim Bleicher, who is representing the driver whose car was damaged as part of Honeu's campaign against rock terror: "Rock attacks are terror attacks in every way. It is expected that the police and other security forces would use all available means to apprehend, neutralize and bring terrorists to trial. We demand that the incident be handled as if the terrorists had achieved their goal and the worst outcome possible had occurred." |  Hasno, Hy"d, and his grandson; Photo credit: Courtesy of the family | Life sentence for terrorist who murdered Avraham Hasno, Hy"d The Military Court in Yehuda sentenced Sahban al-Titi, the terrorist who murdered Avraham Hasno, Hy"d near the al-Fawwar Junction in the area of Hevron on October 20, 2015, to life imprisonment. When Hasno exited his car to examine damage from a barrage of rocks thrown at his car, he was run over by al-Titi, who fled the scene. Al-Titi was initially charged only with manslaughter. After a determined protest by the Hasno family, the Military Court in Yehuda convicted the terrorist of intentionally causing death, the equivalent in a military court to murder.
Avraham's daughter, Leah, expressed how the family has been handling their loss: "What does one feel … when one's family collapses into fragments of pain, of uncertainty… The pain still shatters my heart when I see my son [Pe'er Avraham Hasno] asleep with a photograph of his grandfather, four and half years later.
Honenu Attorney Chayim Bleicher, who is representing the family as victims of terror: "The terrorist took advantage of an opportunity to murder a Jew. We ask the court to penalize terrorists with the most stringent penalty possible in order to prevent a situation in which every Jew turns into a potential target for an incidental murder." |  Scene of attack, from the appeal | Honenu appealed, case reopened In an incident in the summer of 2019, as two hassidic youths were walking towards the Western Wall, a group of Arabs standing near the City of David Visitors' Center attacked and beat them. Despite video clips from security cameras at the site which documented the attack and security guards who witnessed it, the case was closed. The case was recently reopened after Honenu Attorney Bleicher filed an appeal.
Bleicher: "The antisemitic assailants are wandering around freely due to failures in the investigation, despite the documentation and the witnesses. Only recently we witnessed in Hevron a dragnet involving dozens of policemen and detectives and unrestrained detentions of minors who were suspected of involvement with a documented altercation. Where are the law enforcement agents when Jews are seriously assaulted in antisemitic attacks?"
See examples of some other antisemitic incidents here and here. |  General Security Service emblem | Veiled threats in GSS harassment In mid June, a Jerusalem yeshiva student received a phone call from a GSS agent who employed various tactics in an unsuccessful attempt to convince him to meet. The caller initially presented himself as the official "in charge of the Temple Mount and the Old City [of Jerusalem]," and later in the conversation identified himself as "Banai".
One of Banai's veiled threats was worded: "This isn't an interrogation and you're not accused of anything. It's a half an hour about a security issue that's important for me to tell you, before there are any consequences to this security issue. I don't want to talk about it much over the phone."
Honenu: "The Jewish Department of the GSS has not stopped harassing and threatening innocent citizens. In the conversation, the GSS agent stressed that the man whom he called was not suspected of anything and despite that he threatened him with oblique threats. See here and here for related stories. |  Kerem Shalom, screenshot; Video credit: Investigative file | State retracts assault indictment In the summer of 2019, an incident occurred at the Kerem Shalom goods crossing, during which a truck driver approached a gathering of youths, waving a large object, which seemed to be a knife, in a threatening manner. B. quickly exited his car, ran towards the disturbance and tried to stop the truck driver by hitting him twice with the pole of a flag that one of the youths in the gathering was holding. B. was indicted for a minor degree of assault.
Honenu Attorney Moshe Poleski stated that when the head of the prosecuting team examined the case file, she understood immediately that there were no grounds for filing the indictment, "if only for the fact that the truck driver who had caused the entire incident had not been indicted, and that is even without examining the claim of self-defense by the defendant. Better late than never, but it is expected that an indictment would be filed only after thorough examination of the evidence and not in haste, which frequently leads to defendants being brought to trial through no fault of their own."
See here for more details. | Message from a loyal supporter Shalom uvracha,
My name is Shalom Pollack, a volunteer with Honenu.
Bezrat Hashem, I have succeeded in collecting thousands of shekels for Honenu simply by filling Honenu pushkas (charity boxes) in synagogue.
Each morning, I go around with the pushka during the repetition of the Amida prayer and give everyone the opportunity to put something in the pushka.
Not everyone gives and not everyone appreciates Honenu for whatever reason. Some give me a disapproving look but it doesn't matter because many are more than willing to help Honenu and are grateful for the opportunity. The results are wonderful.
I turn to you as one who cares about Honenu to do the same as I do. I will be happy to discuss this with you.
Send Honenu an email and they will send out a charity box for you. In order to continue helping Honenu do their holy work, people like you are needed. You can make a difference and do a great mitzva. Please be in contact with your ideas and suggestions.
Bvracha
Shalom Pollack
shalompollack613@gmail.com
052-235-2724 | Above are descriptions of some of Honenu's work. We thank Shalom Pollack for all his help to Honenu and for describing just one way in which you can help. For more information about these and other cases click here. Thank you so much for being our partner in helping those in need. Click here to donate. If you would like to receive more frequent updates please send an email to us with the word "alerts" in the subject line. Please be in touch with questions and comments. | | |
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