A 16-year-old Bnei Brak resident was arrested on suspicion of setting fire to a Pride flag over the weekend, the Israel Police confirmed on Monday.
In Tel Aviv, widely recognized as a hub of LGBTQ life in the region, the annual Pride Parade typically attracts tens of thousands of participants and visitors. Police generally step up security during Pride Month events due to concerns over possible provocations or hate-motivated actions.
There's a scene in Shababnikim season 1 where one of the boys sets fire to a billboard sign featuing an underwear model that is visible from his bedroom window. The police investigate and he admits that he did it but the writers, secular guys of course, actually give him one of the best speeches of the show. Sure, what he did was wrong, he tells the woman police officer, but if that was a picture of your sister or your daughter, how would you feel? Would you want men driving by and looking at her body like that? Where's dignity? Where's modesty?
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