An Israeli woman claimed on Wednesday that she was the victim of physical abuse from a Secret Service agent in Jerusalem after the man reportedly beat her up unprovoked in the street while she was on her way home.
Tamar Ben-Haim, a 30-year-old woman from Jerusalem, said that she was walking along a busy road in Jerusalem on her way home when a random man attacked her out of nowhere, punching her in the chest repeatedly while he allegedly was armed, according to the New York Post.
“I was in total shock,” she said, crying. “He was so strong … I couldn’t even attempt to defend myself. In my head, I was thinking, ‘You won’t survive this. This is the end of your life.’”
The man was reportedly stopped by another person who spoke to him in English before pulling him away from Ben-Haim. She ran away immediately, but not before taking a few pictures of the men that she later gave to Israeli authorities, according to FOX.
She did not hear back from them for three days, and although she heard about the Secret Service agent that was detained by Israeli police due to a physical encounter, she did not make the connection until she was called by TV channel Arutz 13, who revealed the identity of the attacker as they requested an interview from her.
“When I heard who he was, I just felt more anger, more hurt,” Ben-Haim said. “He’s not a homeless person off the street. He's a trained fighter.”
The attacker is allegedly a member of the Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team, and he was in town to prepare for U.S. President Joe Biden’s visit to Israel a week later.
Ben-Haim has expressed anger at how the United States has not contacted her regarding the assault, and how she feels like they are attempting to cover up the unprovoked attack instead of communicating with her about it.
“You can come to another country, beat someone almost to death and just disappear with zero consequences?” she said. “This is not someone from a third-world country. America is the example of the world, and he works for the president. They just shipped him back to where he came like nothing ever happened, and they expect me to just move on with my life.”
She is currently weighing her legal options and recovering from the beating while she applies for a visa to the United States to stay and recover with her relatives in the country.
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