Yehezkel came to the baker's family to show his solidarity and to try to reason with the group's leaders. They insulted him and questioned his Jewishness. "I could share their anger over the incessant terror attacks," Yehezkel wrote later in the Jewish magazine Tikkun, "but I vehemently rejected their racist and hateful attitudes. . . . My heart has broken many times as I confronted the deeply painful reality of my fellow Israelis, including my Jerusalem neighbors, being overwhelmed by fear, anger, and grief."
