Kedumim mayor harrassed, threatened in New York

(JNS) — Oziel Vatik, the mayor of the Samaria village of Kedumim, was subjected to harassment and threats in New York while visiting the city as part of an official Yesha Council delegation on Sunday, he told JNS.

Vatik told JNS he was holding security consultations by phone following the deadly terrorist attack near Kedumim on Sunday when a woman came up to him and started shouting.

“She shouted at me: ‘You’re Israeli, you piece of…’ and other curses in English,” he said, adding: “Out of respect for you, I won’t repeat them.”

“Just as in Poland in 1910, when my grandfather was attacked and hi...