{"id":481264,"date":"2026-06-07T20:19:18","date_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:19:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481264\/"},"modified":"2026-06-07T20:19:18","modified_gmt":"2026-06-07T20:19:18","slug":"justice-solbergs-friend-calls-haredi-riot-outside-judge-house-pogrom","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/481264\/","title":{"rendered":"Justice Solberg&#8217;s friend calls Haredi riot outside judge house &#8216;pogrom&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Tomer Moskowitz, head of the Tzur Hadassah local council and close friend of Justice Noam Sohlberg, Deputy President of the Supreme Court, said on Sunday that the haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protest outside of Sohlberg&#8217;s house &#8220;wasn&#8217;t a demonstration, it was a pogrom.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Moskowitz, who spoke on Sunday with 103FM about the night of riots outside Sohlberg\u2019s house, explained that he was praying in a nearby synagogue\u00a0 when he \u201cheard loud shouting like a football game.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Over <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-898366\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">60 suspects<\/a> were detained after the riot outside the Judge\u2019s house on Wednesday evening, which also ended with damage to the property.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;I went outside and realized that the rioters were already there and left. I immediately arrived at Solberg&#8217;s house, and we stayed with them until twelve thirty at night,&#8221; Moskowitz explained.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">He then recalled that Meira (Sohlberg&#8217;s wife) locked the doors and the shutters. &#8220;If they had gone inside, I don&#8217;t know how it would have ended. Dozens of people attacked the house and banged on the door hard. Anyone could feel their life in danger in a situation like this, and it could have ended completely differently,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"Ultra orthodox jewish men protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, at the home of Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg in Alon Shvut, June 3, 2026.\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"822\" height=\"829\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/1780597210_180_724209.jpeg\"\/>Ultra orthodox jewish men protest against the jailing of yeshiva students who failed to comply with an army recruitment order, at the home of Supreme Court Deputy President Noam Sohlberg in Alon Shvut, June 3, 2026. (credit: CHAIM GOLDBERG\/FLASH90)<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Moskowitz also revealed that, even if after the event, Sohlberg was &#8220;in shock,&#8221; the judge has &#8220;fully recovered and is already joking with his guests.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>No security for Supreme Court judges<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Moskowitz added that Sohlberg wasn\u2019t assigned any security guards, and \u201cthere weren\u2019t even security cameras in the house.\u201d &#8220;We never felt the need to physically protect the house. Now the police need to do a threat assessment,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Now the police need to do a threat assessment,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p>Senior Israel Police Superintendent Chaim Taieb told 103FM in a Thursday interview that the police are not treating the incident as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-898013\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">normal protest<\/a>. According to him, it was a &#8220;serious criminal event with real intent to harm.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Moskowitz also called out the people criticizing Sohlberg, with many of them being right-wing figures who are against the judge&#8217;s decision to allow the Red Cross to visit terrorist security prisoners in Israeli prisons.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;Noam uses a very correct expression there &#8211; the government wants to be pulled out of the fire,&#8221; he clarified. &#8220;The government has had two years to change the procedures it itself established.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;They probably prefer the Red Cross to visit security detainees in order to reduce international pressure, but they don&#8217;t want it to be recorded in their name. Noam is a conservative judge, and he told them that if they didn&#8217;t change the law, the court wouldn&#8217;t do the job for them,&#8221; he added.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">&#8220;A conservative judge is not a right-wing judge. Right-wing and left-wing are not traits that should characterize a judge at all. Judges are divided into activists and conservatives,&#8221; he emphasized.<\/p>\n<p>How was the riot outside of Sohlsberg&#8217;s house?<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The riots took place in opposition to Sohlberg\u2019s order to increase arrests of draft evaders.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-898303\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Extremist protesters<\/a> caused significant property damage by smashing windows, damaging his car, and attempting to break into Sohlberg&#8217;s house before attempting to flee the scene.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Justice Sohlberg&#8217;s wife, Meira Sohlberg, spoke to reporters following the riot.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It cannot be that <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/opinion\/article-898356\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jews do this to one another<\/a>. We are children of Holocaust survivors. Jews harming each other like this &#8211; how can it be? How can it be? Look at the destruction. A pogrom. What is this? A Kristallnacht. How is this possible? There are no words.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tomer Moskowitz, head of the Tzur Hadassah local council and close friend of Justice Noam Sohlberg, Deputy President&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":481265,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[12186,42,46,43,220567,48937,40,38,41,39,12185,122898],"class_list":["post-481264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-headlines","tag-haredi-draft","tag-headlines","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-noam-sohlberg","tag-riot","tag-top-news","tag-top-stories","tag-topnews","tag-topstories","tag-ultra-orthodox","tag-ultra-orthodox-draft"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481264","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=481264"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/481264\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/481265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=481264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=481264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=481264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}