(VINnews) — Although nearly a week has passed since the attack by a US secret service agent from Biden’s entourage on a young Jerusalemite woman, it is hard for her to recover from the traumatic event. The agent was immediately deported back to America but the scars of his assault remain on the young woman, Tamar Ben-Chaim, who is a great-granddaughter of Rabbi Ovadia Yosef.
Israel’s channel 13 interviewed Ben-Chaim, who recalled the chain of events which had occurred prior to the arrival of the US president in Israel.
התקיפה הזאת התרחשה ביום שני לפני 5 ימים, עד עכשיו על מי שמענו? על תמר בן חיים שהותקפה בנחלאות על ידי מאבטח של ביידן או על יובל דיין שלא לחצה את היד של ביידן? למה יש לי תחושה שניסו להשתיק את התקיפה הזאת להטיס אותו חזרה בשושו ולהמשיך לטרחן על יובל דיין. סדר עדיפויות מעוות לחלוטין. pic.twitter.com/ay3V7mvmp3
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“Late Monday night, in the Nahlaot neighborhood of Jerusalem,” Tamar recounted, “I was on the way home from a visit to a friend. I looked up from my phone and he came at me with his fist.”
Tamar saw two armed men coming towards her, and one of them suddenly violently assaulted her and hit her in the face.
“He hit me on the chest, held me tight and gave me a slap, tearing out my earring and headset and throwing it all on the ground. At that moment I saw death staring me in the eyes, I thought someone had come to kill me. I screamed but there was nobody around.”
The attacker, a secret service agent, had apparently gone with friends to a local pub. Tamar said that “his friend was the one who released me from his grip, I couldn’t get out.”
Tamar called police and submitted a complaint. The suspect was arrested for a few hours, interrogated and sent on the first plane back to the US. He was suspended from his role pending investigation. Tamar says that “I feel there is a lack of fairness towards me. He didn’t apologize and caused me grave mental anguish. I’ve been in bed this week, my body hurts, I didn’t tell people about it because I hadn’t absorbed it. It will take me time to recover.”
