Will Arabs who urged knife victim to die rather than help her be charged?
Dr. Aaron Lerner - IMRA 5 October 2015

The Law: Good Samaritan Law, 1998 - Published 30 June 1998
1. (a) It is an obligation of a person to aid a person in front of him, due
to a sudden, severe and immediate danger to his life, to his bodily
integrity or to his health, when the person nearby can help, without risking
or endanger himself.

(b) Someone who notifies the authorities or alerts another person who can
provide the assistance required, is deemed to have helped for the purposes
of this Act; In this section, "authorities" - the Israel Police, Magen David
Adom and firefighting service.

2. (a) The provisions of Section 5 of the Unjust Enrichment Law, 1979, shall
also apply when the qualifying person operated under his obligation under
Section 1.

(c) The court may require the person causing the danger that the aided
person encountered, including the aided person himself if he caused this
danger, to indemnify those who assisted in accordance with their obligation
under the provisions of Article 1 for reasonable expenses and disbursements
incurred.

3. Subject to the provisions of Article 2 (a), there is nothing in the
provisions of this Act that shall derogate from the provisions of the law.

4. A person who contravenes the provisions of Section 1 of this Act, shall
be liable to a fine.

5. The Minister of Justice is responsible for implementation of this law.

6. The commencement of this law is at the conclusion of 90 days from its
publication.

Benjamin Netanyahu Prime Minister
Tzachi Hanegbi Minister of Justice
Ezer Weizman President
Dan Tichon Speaker of the Knesset

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Wounded Widow, Mother of Injured Baby Recounts Tale of Jerusalem Terror From
Hospital Bed: ‘The Arabs Watching Just Laughed’
The Algemeiner October 4, 2015 5:24 pm
http://www.algemeiner.com/2015/10/04/wounded-widow-mother-of-injured-baby-recounts-tale-of-jerusalem-terror-from-hospital-bed-the-arabs-watching-just-laughed/#comment-4476216

“I ran several meters with a knife stuck in my shoulder, covered in blood,”
newly widowed Adele (Benita) Bennett told Israel’s Channel 2 on Sunday, from
her hospital bed in Hadassah-Ein Kerem. “And the Arabs watching applauded
and spit at me, calling out, ‘You should die, too.'”

The 22-year-old wife of murdered Aharon (Benita) Bennett, whose funeral she
was unable to attend due to the critical injuries she sustained in the
Jerusalem terror attack on Saturday night, recounted the terrifying ordeal,
in which her two-year-old son was also stabbed. The baby, whose injury was
described by doctors as “light,” was transferred Sunday afternoon from
Shaarei Zekek Medical Center to Hadassah, to be reunited with his mother.

Adele’s account is as follows:


We were walking to the Kotel [the Western Wall]. We saw that a lot of people
were walking alongside us. We didn’t think there would be a problem. The
streets were crowded.

We prayed at the Kotel. And on our way back, there were lots of people
around us.

We got to an area where we suddenly noticed that we were alone. Everyone had
disappeared. I asked Aharon, ‘Where is everybody?’ [Because] there weren’t
enough people around for us to feel safe.

So we decided to run to a safer area, near security forces, and then we
would continue on our way.

Suddenly, he [the terrorist] emerged from one of the shops, that vile
murderer. I didn’t understand what was happening to me.

I felt someone at my back, and then I saw my husband starting to confront
him. Aharon punched him in the face. My husband is a big man; he really
fought with him. He’s extremely strong… [But then the terrorist turned
around] and started stabbing me, and after that resumed stabbing my husband.

Many Arabs were around us watching what was happening. They simply laughed
and smiled.

I really begged, ‘Help me, help me!’

He [the terrorist] pushed Aharon down to the ground and continued stabbing
him. I tried to fight him, to get the knife out of his hand. I realized I
wouldn’t be able to; I felt I was about to fall. I thought I had to alert
security forces.

[When I reached them], I told them that I was wounded and that my children
and my husband were back there. I fell on the ground; I couldn’t move.

As I ran to them, I heard cursing; I got slapped, yelled at. They were
animals. I felt that it had been organized.
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