Teen Brutally Attacked in School Bathroom Says, “He Choked Me Until I Passed Out”

Maor Shaked was violently attacked in the school bathroom, where he was beaten, strangled and stabbed until he lost consciousness. Video footage of the incident shows a boy choking him and knocking him to the floor, and Maor himself recounts the moments of terror in an interview on the program “The World This Morning”: “He stabbed me with screws in my legs, he grabbed me and choked me until I fainted.” The incident left deep scars not only on Maor’s body, but also on his mind and his family. His mother, Tali Shansy, describes the enormous pain: “My heart, it is very hard. You constantly feel that you were not there to help him. We do not really know what happened inside, part of the time he was unconscious.”

Since the attack, she has been waging a determined battle with the school and the Holon municipality, which she says are not taking action to ensure her son’s safety. Her lack of trust in the system reached its peak, she explains, when there was an attempt to transfer Maor to another school. “Because of my lack of trust, they actually wanted to remove the child from the school,” she says, stressing the sense of frustration and lack of response.

Maor Shaked’s harrowing story is painful evidence that violence among boys and girls is no longer an unusual event. The cruelty that was documented, stabbing with screws, choking until loss of consciousness and a group assault, highlights the urgent need for decisive systemic action. While the police have opened an investigation and point to a worrying picture of a phenomenon of teenagers encouraging violence within the school walls, and the Ministry of Education and the Holon municipality are accompanying the case, the family’s experience exposes a deep gap. Chief Inspector Eran Dotan, head of the Investigations and Intelligence Division at the Holon station, confirms that the investigation reveals a systemic problem and emphasizes that “a worrying picture is emerging of a phenomenon of teenagers who encourage violence within the school walls, alongside footage that is being distributed in real time among students.”