{"id":274571,"date":"2026-02-05T01:37:09","date_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:37:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274571\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T01:37:09","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T01:37:09","slug":"security-guard-at-prague-airport-forces-ultra-orthodox-woman-to-remove-head-covering","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/274571\/","title":{"rendered":"Security guard at Prague airport forces ultra-Orthodox woman to remove head covering"},"content":{"rendered":"

A border control officer at Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague forced an ultra-Orthodox woman to remove her head covering in front of numerous passengers and shouted at her during passport control in what is being described as a serious antisemitic incident.<\/p>\n

The incident took place early Monday, around 4 a.m., ahead of a Ryanair flight from Prague to London that was scheduled to depart at around 6 a.m. The woman was traveling with her husband to London\u2019s Stansted Airport.<\/p>\n

While passing through passport control, the woman\u2019s husband, who holds a European passport, went through the EU citizens\u2019 lane without difficulty. The woman, who holds only a British passport, was directed to the non-EU passport control lane, where the incident occurred.<\/p>\n

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An Orthodox Jewish woman wearing a headcovering; for illustration purposes<\/p>\n

(Photo: Mayan Nemanov\/Shutterstock)<\/p>\n

According to her account, without any explanation or apparent reason, she was ordered to remove her head covering. The woman said she felt a genuine fear of being detained and therefore complied with the demand, despite describing the experience as humiliating and deeply distressing.<\/p>\n

In an interview with the Haredi news site Behadrei Haredim, the passenger described the incident: \u201cFirst he told me to take my hand out of my pocket. Then he yelled that I was leaning on his table, \u2018That\u2019s not allowed.\u2019 Then he looked at my passport and told me to take off my head covering. I told him I\u2019m not allowed to, and he said to me, \u2018Take it off.\u2019 So I told him I\u2019m a religious Jew and I can\u2019t take it off.\u201d<\/p>\n

She went on to recount the degrading moments: \u201cHe yelled again, \u2018Take it off.\u2019 I was so afraid they would arrest me that I just took it off. He said it was fine and let me through. I told him that what he made me do was demoralizing. He looked at me coldly and didn\u2019t say a word. He just ignored me.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A border control officer at Vaclav Havel Airport in Prague forced an ultra-Orthodox woman to remove her head…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":274572,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[42,43,40,38,41,39],"class_list":{"0":"post-274571","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-headlines","8":"tag-headlines","9":"tag-news","10":"tag-top-news","11":"tag-top-stories","12":"tag-topnews","13":"tag-topstories"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274571","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274571\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/274572"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}