In the smoking streets of Bnei Brak on February 15, 2026, two female IDF instructors dressed modestly for a welfare visit to a soldier’s home hid in trash bins as a Haredi mob chased them. The crowd overturned a police car, set a motorcycle ablaze, hurled debris, and injured officers before police used stun grenades to rescue the women and arrest over 20 suspects. This outburst, sparked by draft tensions, scarred Israel’s unity. What would David, the man after Hashem’s own heart, say to those who turned Torah zeal into street fury?

David’s Vision of Unity Shattered

David wrote in Psalm 133:1, “Behold, how good and how pleasant it is for brethren to dwell together in unity!” He likened it to precious oil poured on Aaron’s head, flowing down to unite priest and people. Yet the Haredi extremists who hunted soldiers in black hats acted nothing like David’s psalms of peace. They behaved more like the divided tribes during Absalom’s rebellion, when brother turned against brother and the kingdom fractured from within.

Their violence – torching motorcycles, hurling bins at guardians of the land – mimics the so-called Summer of Love riots in Portland and........

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