HaBayit HaYehudi ministers Naftali Bennett and Ayelet Shaked arrived at the Ofra settlement for a closed-door meeting with its leaders on the night of Feb. 4. It had been a very tense weekend in the West Bank following the forced evacuation of the Amona outpost in keeping with a Supreme Court ruling that HaBayit HaYehudi could not block. When the Supreme Court issued a similar ruling over nine homes in the established settlement of Ofra, its residents began a vigorous campaign to overturn the "evil decree."
As they left the meeting, Bennett and Shaked were verbally assaulted on their way to their limos. Video clips distributed to news sites after the incident show the two ministers being heckled with calls like, "Shame on you! We voted for you to fight for us, not to surrender to Netanyahu!’’
