A Tel Aviv resident was detained on Thursday morning after Israel Police received a complaint of sexual harassment, the police said shortly after Hadar Mukhtar spoke to N12 about the incident.
"I'm glad justice was done. It happened to me at a demonstration when there were police and people around me. What would have happened if it were an unknown person in a dark corner at 2 a.m.?" she told N12.
Mukhtar regularly shares footage of herself attending left-wing protests and the negative interactions she experiences there.
"I feel like I come to these demonstrations and they always tell me that I'm an unrepresentative minority. On my Instagram page, you can see so many videos of people that I'm no longer the unrepresentative minority, I'm the representative majority," she continued. "When I come to these demonstrations, I'm attacked verbally, physically, there was also a girl who attacked me, sexually harassed, I'm just attacked all the time. People there are violent and dangerous. I don't come there to block them and I don't come to curse at them, but rather to talk to them and tell them my opinions, to try to create some kind of dialogue. It's so important for our people that we have the option to speak. Instead, what I get is curses, violence, and harassment."
Sexual harassment
In one video published by Muchtar, she questions a man on why he is touching her, to which he responds, "It's fun to touch you, you're very pretty."
In the video, Muchtar can be heard repeatedly asking the man to stop touching her.
The suspect has since been released under restrictive conditions.
This is a developing story.