Israel Police raised the security level for MKs Yaakov Asher and Moshe Gafni to Level 4 after intelligence and recent incidents displayed a rise in threats against them, N12 reported on Monday.
The move comes amid demonstrations by extremist Haredi groups and growing concern within the security establishment about potential violent incidents targeting public officials.
A senior police source told N12 that threats toward Haredi representatives have increased in recent weeks. The source pointed to a violent protest near the home of Shas MK Ben Tzur and additional attempted assaults by extremist activists opposed to the emerging conscription law.
Haredim attack MK Ben-Tzur; Shas condemns violence
During the incident, protesters shattered Ben-Tzur's car window and reportedly physically harmed him. Trash bags were also thrown at Ben-Tzur's car, according to Israel Police, which intervened and assisted in getting Ben-Tzur to safety.
Shas condemned the incident in a statement, saying that "such acts of violence, which desecrate God's name, are not the way of the Torah and do not represent any God-fearing community."
"The attack by dozens of Haredim on MK Ben-Tzur from Shas is another example of the fact that we must immediately get our act together," MK Avigdor Liberman wrote in a post to X/Twitter.