Rebbetzin Yocheved Grossman, the Meah Shearim woman who, along with her husband, is thought to have assisted or encouraged the knife attack on Thursday’s Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade carried out by a haredi man, Yishai Shlissel (also spelled Schlissel), is no stranger to stirring up trouble.
Above: Yishai Shlissel just after stabbing Gay pride marchers in 2005, right, and in 2015, left
Haredi Rebbitzin Suspected Of Cooperating In Jerusalem Gay Pride Stabbing Attack Has Long History Of Extremism And Inciting Violence
Shmarya Rosenberg • FailedMessiah.com
Rebbetzin Yocheved Grossman, the Meah Shearim woman who, along with her husband, is thought to have assisted or encouraged the knife attack on Thursday’s Jerusalem Gay Pride Parade carried out by a haredi man, Yishai Shlissel (also spelled Schlissel), is no stranger to stirring up trouble.
Grossman helped incite the massive haredi riots in Jerusalem in 2009 over the arrest of “starving mother,” a haredi women with Munchausen Syndrome By Proxy who intentionally starved her young child to the verge of death. Grossman nonsensically insisted the child was thin due to cancer (false) and because various feeding tubes simply fell out of the child spontaneously (false). She made these claims even after Hadassah Hospital uses a hidden video camera and recorded the mother removing her child’s nutritional support and yanking out the line.
About that time Grossman launched a group to advocate for gender-segregated bus lines. Her movement was accompanied by violent attacks carried out by male haredim – who were likely linked to Grossman’s group; it can’t be said the link is absolute because police made no serious attempts to arrest any of the gang leaders – on non-segregated public buses in the Mea Shearim neighborhood of Jerusalem, on bus stop shelters and on passengers trying to disembark.
More recently, Grossman became an activist to keep the purported tomb of King David on Mount Zion adjoining the Old City of Jerusalem free of “idol worshipers” – in this case, Catholic priests, nuns and monks. Grossman formed a small group of women who went to the tomb every morning to pray, and helped spark and then organize the anti-Catholic protests there that have turned increasingly violent.
Despite her history of incitement to violence and her husband’s link to Gay Pride Parade attacker Yishai Shlissel, police failed to keep a surveillance on her or her husband on parade day.
[Hat Tip to Yisrael Medad for pointing out Rebbitzin Grossman's first name.]