In response to the incident, the soldier, Doron Matalon, said: "This kind of behavior by our people is very hurtful. With all due respect, even though I'm secular and he's orthodox we belong to the same people. Matalon was traveling on bus No. After approaching the front of the bus in order to pay the driver, she was told by a haredi passenger to move to the back.
She refused, and he began cursing her. An Egged bus company worker called the police, and the man was arrested. In his investigation, he admitted calling her a "slut", explaining that the word was a proper response to "her provocative behavior".
Opposition leader Tzipi Livni spoke with Matalon's father, telling him that "Doron was caught in an unbearable reality and her adamant stance against those radicals is commendable.
Meanwhile, State Prosecutor Moshe Lador addressed the exclusion of women phenomenon for the first time Wednesday. Also Wednesday, some women marched on Tel Aviv's Rothschild Boulevard as part of a protest against the exclusion of women organized by the Women's International Zionist Organization. Aviad Glickman and Yoav Malka contributed to this report.
All rights reserved. Breaking News. Female soldier: Haredi called me a 'slut'. Soldier says cursed by ultra-Orthodox passenger in Jerusalem after refusing to move to back of bus. Internal security minister urges citizens to file complaints with police. The Jerusalem police on Wednesday arrested an ultra-Orthodox man for calling a female soldier a "slut" during a bus ride in the capital. The soldier's father said the haredi man had referred to her as a "shiksa" a disrespectful term in Yiddish for a non-Jewish woman.
