{"id":510074,"date":"2026-06-25T07:46:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510074\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T07:46:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T07:46:08","slug":"police-arrest-two-suspects-who-appeared-to-threaten-shooting-haredi-protesters","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510074\/","title":{"rendered":"Police arrest two suspects who appeared to threaten shooting haredi protesters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Officers from Israel Police&#8217;s Jerusalem District arrested two suspects during the overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, due to suspecting that they drew a gun and threatened <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-900421\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">haredi<\/a> (ultra-Orthodox) protesters blocking Highway 1 during <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-900333\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Wednesday&#8217;s protests<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The suspicions were raised after a video of the alleged incident was circulated on social media, Israel Police confirmed.<\/p>\n<p>The video, seen by The Jerusalem Post, appears to show one of the suspects in the driver&#8217;s seat of a vehicle, going past the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/defense-news\/article-900400\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">haredi<\/a> protesters at a slow speed, leaning out of the window, and pointing what appears to be a pistol towards them, before driving off.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">One of the suspects was questioned, and their weapon was seized by police officers.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/article-900188\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> will request permission from the court to extend their detention.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">The second suspect was found to not hold a weapons license and is under investigation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Officers from Israel Police&#8217;s Jerusalem District arrested two suspects during the overnight between Wednesday and Thursday, due to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510075,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[30835,12184,85,46,1158,43,52,12185,3897],"class_list":["post-510074","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-gun","tag-haredi","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-israel-police","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-ultra-orthodox","tag-violence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510074","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=510074"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510074\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510075"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510074"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510074"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510074"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}