Israel: Six Killed in Hamas-Backed Terrorist Attack in Jerusalem
Reuters: “Palestinian militant group Hamas praised two Palestinian “resistance fighters” who it said had carried out the attack and Islamic Jihad.”
At least six people were killed and over a dozen more injured on Monday morning in Jerusalem when a group of Hamas-backed Palestinian terrorists opened fire at commuters at a busy bus stop.
“Six people were killed in a shooting attack in Ramot Junction in Jerusalem on Monday after Israeli emergency medical services had received initial reports of at least 15 injured,” the Israeli TV channel i24NEWS reported. “Two more people remain seriously injured, 4 moderately injured, and 24 panic victims, and are currently receiving treatment at Jerusalem hospitals.”
A tragic morning in Jerusalem: two terrorists boarded a bus on route 62 and opened fire on passengers and bystanders. Many were murdered and others severely injured.
Our hearts are with the families who are mourning their loved ones on this terrible day.
The people of Israel… pic.twitter.com/H3KskWXH5k
— Sharren Haskel השכל שרן (@SharrenHaskel) September 8, 2025
An IDF soldier and an armed civilian present at the scene neutralized the attackers. “An Israeli soldier and civilians who were at the scene shot and killed the two attackers, said police, who later arrested a third person in connection with the shooting,” the Associated Press reported.
The three terrorists came from nearby “Palestinian villages of Qatanna and Qubeib” and had “entered through a breach in the border fence,” the Israeli media outlet Ynetnews disclosed, citing preliminary investigations.
Hero of the day: a Haredi yeshiva student who got his a gun license about a year ago was one of the people who shot the terrorists preventing more deaths as a result of the attack in Jerusalem. pic.twitter.com/tkcodwF4X5
— Michael Dickson (@michaeldickson) September 8, 2025
Iran-sponsored Hamas and Palestinian Islamic Jihad (PIJ) terror groups applauded the murder of innocent Israelis in Jerusalem. According to Reuters, “Palestinian militant group Hamas praised two Palestinian “resistance fighters” who it said had carried out the attack and Islamic Jihad, another Palestinian militant group, also praised the shooting.”
Yisrael Mentzer, 28, z”l
Yaakov Pinto, 25, z”l
Rabbi Yosef David, 43, z”lThe names of 3 of the 6 murdered by two terrorists at a Jerusalem bus stop this morning have been revealed.
May their memories be a blessing 💔 pic.twitter.com/2K4ywvkpFH
— Hen Mazzig (@HenMazzig) September 8, 2025
The victims of the terrorist attack include a 60-year-old woman, two Rabbis, and a newlywed immigrant from Spain. Ynetnews published their details:
Six people were killed in a shooting attack at Ramot Junction on Monday morning, authorities said. The victims were Rabbi Levi Yitzchak Pash, Yaakov Pinto, Yisrael Metzner, Rabbi Yosef David, Rabbi Mordechai Steinzag and Sarah (Sarita) Mendelson.(…)
Yaakov Pinto, 25, an immigrant from Spain, had recently married and studied at the Derech Emunah Yeshiva in Lod. Members of his community in Ramot said his “future was cruelly cut short. Our hearts are with his young wife, his family and his community in these difficult moments.”
Levi Yitzchak Pash, a staff member at the Kol Torah Yeshiva, lived in Tel Tzion near Jerusalem. Neighbors described him as “a dedicated yeshiva worker, known for helping everyone in the neighborhood and performing acts of kindness.”
Yisrael Metzner, 28, was a resident of Jerusalem.
Rabbi Yosef David, 43, lived in the Ramot neighborhood of Jerusalem. Local residents said he was killed while standing at a bus stop on his way to study at a kollel, with his books in hand.
Rabbi Mordechai Steinzag, 57, who immigrated to Israel from Pennsylvania in 1993, was the owner of the famous Beit Shemesh bakery Dr. Mark, which specialized in healthy alternatives for bread.
Sarah (Sarita) Mendelson, 60, was a resident of Jerusalem’s Ramat Shlomo neighborhood.
This is one of the victims shot to death on the bus today in Jerusalem. Sara Mendelson. Seeing this photo of her at the Nova memorial site pierces my heart. Terrorism stalks the innocent. At music festivals and on buses.
Evil. pic.twitter.com/8CxUSZNF3f
— Heidi Bachram 🎗️ (@HeidiBachram) September 8, 2025
Prime Minister Netanyahu: Israel at a multi-front war against terrorism
Israel was in a multi-front war against terrorism, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu said while visiting the scene of the terror attack. “We are at war, an intense war against terrorism on several fronts,” he told reporters.
Prime Minister Netanyahu at the scene of the terrorist attack in Jerusalem:
"We are engaged in pursuit and are cordoning off the villages from which the murderers came. We will apprehend whoever aided and dispatched them, and will take even stronger steps"https://t.co/tOl6aV5CtF pic.twitter.com/Gj0tWiCIlD— Prime Minister of Israel (@IsraeliPM) September 8, 2025
The Israeli prime minister’s office released the excerpts of his remarks:
“We are at war, an intense war against terrorism on several fronts.
First, I would like to send condolences to the families of those who were murdered and, of course, best wishes for a quick recovery to those who were wounded.
When I say that we are in an intense war on several fronts, we have had – of course – major successes against the terrorist regimes and terrorist organizations. However, the war is continuing – both in the Gaza Strip, where we will destroy Hamas as we have promised and release our hostages, all of our hostages, and – unfortunately – in Jerusalem as well.
https://twitter.com/i24NEWS_EN/status/1965002838209437999
Defense Minister Katz: Hamas-backed terror attack to have ‘far-reaching consequences’
The Hamas-backed terror attack comes a day after President Donald Trump issued a ‘last warning’ to the Gaza-based terrorist group, urging it to free all of the remaining hostages.
Country’s Defense Minister Israel Katz warned that the deadly attack will have ‘far-reaching consequences,’ in an apparent reference to the ongoing military operation against Hamas in Gaza.
The Times of Israel reported:
Defense Minister Israel Katz says that today’s “heinous” terror shooting in Jerusalem will have “severe and far-reaching consequences.”
“Just as we defeated Palestinian terrorism in northern Samaria — we will soon do the same in other terror camps,” he says, using the biblical name for the northern West Bank, where the IDF has conducted intense operations over the past year.
With Hamas refusing to accept U.S. and Israel hostage proposals, the IDF has launched a ground offensive to capture the Hamas-stronghold of Gaza City, where the majority of the hostages and most of the combat-ready terrorist forces are believed to be located.
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There is no better argument against gun control than Israel. Every Israeli capable of carrying should carry a firearm.
And yet Israel has fairly strict gun control — far more than would be acceptable here.
Israelis, like Europeans, absolutely refuse to recognize that one of the fundamental rights with which all humans are endowed by our Creator is the right to keep and bear arms for our own defense and that of others. And again like Europe, freedom of speech in Israel is very restricted.
This is one of the reasons I prefer to live in the USA, for now.
I think they are afraid all the Muslims , like 25% of Israel, would kill them, the Israel’s, in one swoop
And they would be right
That’s exactly why they should recognize the RKBA. But they don’t. The current police minister, Itamar Ben-Gvir, is about the only politician who does recognize it, but he’s frozen out of all decision-making, and the police force ignores his orders.
They relaxed their gun control somewhat after 10/7, but not nearly enough.
Ben-Gvir managed somehow to push through a very tiny reform, but even after that it’s significantly worse than even Hawaii, Massachusetts, or New York.
at commuters at a busy bus stop
Not really. They boarded the bus, then opened fire. A little tighter quarters than “at a bus stop.”
a Haredi yeshiva student
And, once again, good guys with guns stopped it from being worse.
“entered through a breach in the border fence,”
Which is where they should have been shot. Or even on the other side of the fence, stopped by a 500-pounder.
blmplo wont surrender
they only know violence
so give it to them
We will apprehend whoever aided and dispatched them, and will take even stronger steps
Bibi, baby, You need to START with those stronger steps. Destroy entirely the two villages – down to “no stone left standing on another” and “no
childunderground structure left behind” – and kill or drive out everyone who harbored them. Make exceptions for anyone who aids you. (Buy them a nice dacha in Qatar and send them there.)Unfortunately he can’t do that. And even more unfortunately he doesn’t even want to.
If he were to give such an order, the army would refuse it. And anyone who acted on such an order would go to prison. As he would for giving it.
That’s a return to the traditional bus-explosion mode from long ago now. It’s a “You can’t live here” message.
They expect retaliation and expect to profit from the retaliation.
Israel, as usual, will strive to limit collateral damage. Not in the Talmud? I say it is and Israel thinks it is too.
A better tone-setting headline might be “Hamas asks for retaliation with bus attack.”
No, it isn’t in the Talmud, you have no idea what’s in the Talmud since you’ve never studied it, and Israel doesn’t give a sh*t what’s in the Talmud. You seem to imagine that Israel is some sort of theocracy.
Yet here’s Israel acting in accord with Levinas’s commentary aimed at making Judaism relevant to everyday life. Not a random way to act.
Israel is not acting in accord with Levinas’s anything. Israel doesn’t care what’s in the Talmud. It’s not a religious state, and pays no attention whatsoever to Jewish law, Jewish tradition, or Jewish anything else. The only ethic it follows is that of Western liberalism. And it’s that completely secular ethic that is making it behave in such a stupid and self-destructive way towards its enemies.
Israel is acting in conformity with common-sense (i.e. Western) morality, which is derived from the Talmud in ways that Levinas is interested in pointing out. In accordance with Levinas, Israel is concerned about what sort of people they are, and the rule that being called on for aid is the only source of identity. Before that you’re interchangeable and non-unique. No self. Israel acts in accord with “who they are,” which requires treating sick Palestinians and sending food and all the rest.
That “who we are” is the basis of the Talmud. Levinas shows how. That’s how it lines up with common sense.
He has the same claim on the Talmud as you do, probably more. You don’t want to waste your time reading him though. Fine.
A short essay “The Rights of Man and the Rights of the Other” printed in _Outside the Subject_ might help. Non-Talmudic essay but it’s what he works into the Talmud and gives the motivation. Namely it makes the Talmud recognizable as ethics.
Western liberal “morality” is not derived from the Talmud at all. This supposed “rule that being called on for aid is the only source of identity” is to be found nowhere in the Talmud. Levinas made it up.
No, it isn’t. And no, he did not have “the same claim on the Talmud” as I do. The Talmud doesn’t belong to anyone; it stands for itself, and is interpreted by a living tradition of scholarship going all the way back to its compilation in the 5th century CE. I am part of that tradition, Levinas wasn’t.
wht people are taught ( and the afriameric museum people would agree) to be civilized and polite and the msm>>schools >>government have made it a crime to racially profile
so next time a blmplo cheerleader sits behind you
or walks behind you
or is within 1000 ft of you
continue to act as if its alllll good
bulldoze the villages. Every single building. Don’t care about cries of “collective guilt” outside and inside Israel. Don’t care at all.
Unfortunately they can’t do that. Literally can’t. If he were to order it the army would refuse the order, and arrest him for giving it.
The supremacist, totalitarian, belligerent, hate-filled and pathology-laden ideology of “Submission” is the problem in the middle east.
Not Israel, not Zionism, nor anything else. Submission and its tenets commanding its adherents to wage Islamic “holy war” against Jews, Christians, Druze and other non-Muslims.
Also, it’s time for people to start fighting back against the despicable, evil, dishonest and revisionist slander accusing modern-day Israel of being an alleged “settler-colonial” state.
The kingdom of Israel and Judaea existed long before the Arab invaders from Arabia invaded the region, and, long before a select cohort of them brazenly and dishonestly re-branded themselves by co-opting the name of the Roman province of Palaestina — a province that was named 600 years before Submission’s founding.
Not to mention the fact that “Palaestina” indirectly references Jews, as its etymology comes from “Philistine.” “Palestine” has nothing whatsoever to do with Arabs, Muslims or the ideology of Submission.
“Indirectly references Jews”? How so? The original Pelishtim (a name that the Bible seems to use for two distinct peoples, who lived in different areas at different times), were not Jews.
My understanding is that the Philistines were enemies of the ancient Jews. It thus follows that the word “Palaestina” and its modern derivations are indirect references to Jews.
Certainly, the word has nothing to do with Arab invaders from Arabia, who co-opted it in a brazen and transparent attempt at historical revisionism.
Yes, the second set of Pelishtim were enemies of the Jews. The first set, who feature in Genesis, seem to have been on relatively good terms with Abraham and Isaac, but they’re not the same people as those who appear in Judges, Samuel, and Kings.
I just don’t get how that makes them an indirect reference to the Jews. That seems like saying that “French” is an indirect reference to the Germans or the English, because of their historical rivalries with the French.
The Bible often uses the name Peleshet to refer to the area roughly around where the Gaza strip is today. The Greeks extended this name to the entire area of Israel, and that’s where the Romans got it from.
When I read his comment, I understood him to mean that since Palestina was the name the Romans gave to the Jewish land after they destroyed Jerusalem in the first century, its use now is an obvious slap in the face to Jews: it’s not your land anymore, we claim it. That makes its use circle back to a reference to Jews.
This is what ‘globalizing the intifada’ means. Want retarded and lunatic Arabs to slaughter women and children at a bus stop? Support the scum spouting such vile nonsense
Levi Yitzhak Pash, who worked as a maintenance worker at the Kol Torah yeshiva in the Bayit Vegan neighborhood, was murdered this morning (Monday) in the deadly shooting attack at the Ramot Junction..
He was standing at the bus stop when a man driving a car to Bayit Vegan stopped and offered to take three passengers. Pash and two other people got in, but before the car could pull out another person appeared and asked to join the ride, as he needed urgent medical treatment at Shaarei Tzedek hospital. Pash, who was already sitting in the car, gave up his seat to accommodate this request.
Five minutes later the horrific attack occurred, and he was murdered.