Mordechai David against Ron Huldai: "They needed 50 police officers, a muezzin under the house"
Right-wing activist Mordechai David held a Selichot prayer with full gender segregation at Habima Square, refused the inspectors' demand to remove the partition, and caused 50 police officers to be called to the scene. Immediately afterward: he arrived to settle a score with Mayor Ron Huldai | All the details.
Prominent right-wing activist Mordechai David, known for documented provocations, confrontations with public figures from the left, and protests outside the homes of senior officials, is now marking his next target: Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai.
The new storm began after David announced in recent weeks on social media and in his supporters' groups that he intended to hold a series of mass Selichot prayers with gender segregation in the central squares of Tel Aviv, including Habima Square and Dizengoff Square.
Upon David and his supporters' arrival at the Habima plaza to hold the prayer, he rushed to share a video from the field and wrote: "We held Selichot yesterday with full gender segregation, including partitions, at Habima Square in Tel Aviv." However, the event quickly flared up against the municipal inspectors present at the scene.
In a post published afterward, David revealed the confrontation that broke out:
"At the end of the Selichot, the Tel Aviv municipality inspectors informed us that it is forbidden to have a partition in the public space. We informed them that we do not count the Tel Aviv municipality."
In another post, he detailed: "The Tel Aviv municipality inspectors tried to remove the partition and failed because we do not count them, so they needed 50 police officers to help them."
If you thought the event ended there, you were wrong, and by a lot. Immediately after the prayer dispersed and the police forces arrived, David continued together with his supporters directly to the home of Mayor Ron Huldai, where he held a particularly cynical protest against the well-known mayor, as David and his entourage played a muezzin under his house. This is what David wrote: "From there we went straight to Huldai's house to do a muezzin for him under the house."
As recalled, holding prayers with gender segregation in the public space in Tel Aviv has sparked a huge public and legal storm in the past. On the eve of Yom Kippur in September 2023 at Dizengoff Square, protesters clashed with worshipers and prevented the placement of partitions - something that led the Supreme Court to intervene.
