An irregular incident occurred Saturday afternoon in Pnei Kedem, in Gush Etzion south of Jerusalem, where Knesset Constitution Committee Chief MK Simcha Rothman resides.
According to Israel Hayom, residents say a man arrived at the religious village by car in the middle of the sabbath, stopped at the gate, entered the village, and asked passersby where Rothman’s house is.
After several minutes the man arrived at Rothman’s home, where a security guard stopped him. The man claimed he came to talk with the MK and claimed that the situation was especially dire, and therefore, he came on Saturday.
The guard called the police, and when officers tried to remove him from the premises, he claimed that he was religious and could not travel by car on Saturday, but in the end, he entered the vehicle and was removed.
Rothman remarked that “It’s unfortunate that the waves of incitement and fearmongering by the opposition and the protest organizers bring to such incidents.”
MK Simcha Rothman is one of the architects of the government’s judicial reform, together with Justice Minister Yariv Levin, which has been a contentious issue of late.