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The Legal Forum for the Land of Israel has filed a complaint with the Jerusalem District Police regarding recent violent attacks towards Jews on the Mount of Olives.

In a letter written on October 3, Legal Forum attorney Hila Cohen told Jerusalem District Police Commander Aharon Franco of some of the recent attacks on Jews in the Mount of Olives area. These include a stoning incident in June, two separate attacks on Jewish vehicles, as well as the stabbing of an Israeli who came to take part in a funeral at the large cemetery on the mountain, all on September 22.

Meir Indor asks how there were no police in the area when he and his wife were attacked by rock-throwers.

The head of an organization that aids terror victims found himself and his wife in a terrifying lynch situation on Wednesday afternoon on the Mount of Olives, Almagor Terror Victims Association director Meir Indor told The Jerusalem Post on Thursday.

He and his wife, Batsheva, were leaving the Mount of Olives cemetery after Hoshana Raba prayers when they encountered a traffic jam about 500 meters from the exit, on the main street of the Arab neighborhood next to the cemetery.

Refurbishment and construction work was deemed “urgent” in 2006, but the project has moved very slowly since then. It may be the most storied Jewish burial ground in the world, but – according to the state…