{"id":574924,"date":"2026-08-04T22:34:26","date_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:34:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574924\/"},"modified":"2026-08-04T22:34:26","modified_gmt":"2026-08-04T22:34:26","slug":"haredi-protesters-confront-ofer-winter-after-jerusalem-idf-enlistment-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/574924\/","title":{"rendered":"Haredi protesters confront Ofer Winter after Jerusalem IDF enlistment event"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IDF Col. (res.) <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-904206\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Ofer Winter<\/a> was verbally confronted by haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters on Tuesday evening after speaking at a Jerusalem conference for young haredi men interested in specialized military <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-904323\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">enlistment<\/a> programs.<\/p>\n<p>The protesters gathered outside the building after they were denied entry. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/crime-in-israel\/article-904568\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Police<\/a> were called to the scene.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Winter left the building accompanied by a police officer after the lecture, which lasted about an hour. Protesters then gathered around him and shouted insults, including &#8220;traitor to the Jewish people,&#8221; &#8220;despicable,&#8221; and &#8220;you have no part in Judaism.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Some of the protesters also threatened to throw a garbage can at him and began following him.<\/p>\n<p class=\"article-paragraph-section article-body-paragraph\">Winter responded to some of the remarks and appeared calm throughout the incident, according to eyewitnesses.<\/p>\n<p>The confrontation comes amid Winter&#8217;s growing public profile. In recent weeks, he has frequently appeared at conferences and public events as he considers entering politics ahead of the upcoming <a href=\"https:\/\/www.jpost.com\/israel-news\/politics-and-diplomacy\/article-904549\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">elections<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"IDF Col. (res.) Ofer Winter was verbally confronted by haredi (ultra-Orthodox) protesters on Tuesday evening after speaking at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":574925,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[68108,12184,1031,85,46,43,52,12185],"class_list":["post-574924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-israel","tag-draft","tag-haredi","tag-idf","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-news","tag-protests","tag-ultra-orthodox"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574924","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=574924"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/574924\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/574925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=574924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=574924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=574924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}