Attack of The Shema Yisrael

Tired of waking up to muezzin calls on loudspeakers in the middle of the night, Jews from Armon Hanatziv in Jerusalem mounted an aural counterattack.Armed with loudspeakers, they blasted the “Shema” (the ‘Hear O Israel’ prayer) incantation in the direction of the Muslim Arab neighborhood of Tzur Baher. They reportedly did so at about 2:30 a.m.Video of the Jewish counterattack garnered enthusiastic reactions on Facebook.Jews all over Israel find themselves routinely harassed by noise pollution from Muslim neighborhoods in recent years. This less-known “intifada” by Arabs involves fitting loudspeakers on minarets in mosques – which for centuries made do with unamplified muezzin calls for prayer.