An unusual incident was recorded this morning (Monday) in the Knesset, when during the meeting of the Constitution Committee, the ushers forcibly removed Danny Elgert, the brother of the abducted Itzik Elgert, from the hearing hall, on the orders of the committee’s chairman Simcha Rothman. Egleert spoke with Ben Caspit and Aryeh Eldad on Radio 103FM and told his version for events.
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“Today the State of Israel has passed another stage on the way to its destruction, to its disintegration,” Elgart said at the beginning of his remarks. All in all, I was sitting in the committee room, this is my legitimate right as a citizen, someone from Tikva Forum expressed his opinion and I did not hold back and responded. Then yeshiva chairman Rotman decided that I was disturbing and sent the Knesset ushers on me.”
He continued: “I resisted, because I thought he had no reason to take me out and not behave like thugs – and that’s what he did. As far as I’m concerned, he’s the one who took me out, he brutally attacked me, Rothman sent them – he’s responsible. He should take responsibility. What happened to me today is not the responsibility of the bouncers.”
Elgert added: “What happened today in the Knesset is a disgrace. You don’t attack a citizen like that in the most brutal way possible. Even if I disturbed – they should have taken me out with reasonable force. I was passive, they should not have kicked me in the head and body. I disturbed the Tikva forum, that they are Rothman’s shofara and that is what bothered him. I have all the legitimacy to tell the family of the abductees that they are wrong.”
“I sat on dozens of committees, the difference between this committee and the others is that the one who sat there – it’s Rotman and Forum Tikva. Rotman planned this whole thing, what he did is something I shouldn’t have done, I’m considering my steps. Why send bouncers over me? I didn’t understand,” he said to finish
Editing: Eliezer Ben Yehuda
