A young man who had spit on an Armenian clergyman in Jerusalem has been held accountable. Father Hovnan Baghdasaryan, Chancellor of the Armenian Patriarchate of Jerusalem, reported this on Facebook.

"For the first time since 1967, Israeli police have decided to fine a law-breaking citizen for spitting on an Armenian clergyman," he wrote, in particular. “The incident had happened a year ago. A Jewish youth in the Armenian District of the Old City of Jerusalem, seeing the church procession of Armenian clergy, had spit on one of the clergymen several times. The young man immediately surrendered to the police accompanying the procession, and then the injured clergyman had filed a complaint with the police. After questioning and taking testimony from eyewitnesses, police notified the injured Armenian clergyman, with an official letter on March 5, that the police have decided to fine the law-breaking young man with 1,500 shekels [about US$435].”