In recent months, religious Armenians of Jerusalem are regularly attacked by Orthodox Jews. The latest incident occurred on June 16 when two religious Armenians Diagon 
Hairabédian Shnork and father were attacked and violently assaulted by a group of Orthodox Jews in the center of Jerusalem near David’s tower. Mendel Korsounski Social Centre and Culture Noyan Tapan was informed about this latest attack. According to him, as usual, the Israeli police did not intervene during the attack and no prosecution of offenders were identified. With the complicity of the police, the press and the Israeli media also remain silent on this matter? “It does not happen a year without a similar assault against religious Armenians is reported (…) and the Israeli government struggling as anti-Semitism in the world remains indifferent to the acts of the same type that occur on its territory against other peoples. What does the Armenian Ministry of Foreign Affairs to recall these facts to Israel? “Asks Mendel Korsounski.
According to statistics 16,000 Armenians lived in the Armenian quarter of Jerusalem. Today their number is only 1000.
Krikor Amirzayan