Tel-Chai Nation

The Israeli police had to shut down an illegally run yeshiva in Bnei Brak, during which violent clashes erupted between them and Haredi 5th columnists:

Police over the weekend cracked down on a number of illegally-run synagogues in the ultra-Orthodox communities of Jerusalem and Bnei Brak, leading to several violent clashes.

In Bnei Brak, officers shut down two illegal synagogues on Saturday, operated out of yeshivas while the students are away on holidays. One of the synagogues was run by the fanatical Jerusalemite faction inside the prestigious Ponevezh Yeshiva.

Around two dozen parishioners that were inside during the raid were fined NIS 500, while the yeshiva's administrators received NIS 5,000 penalties.

The sect is known for its civil disobedience and frequent clashes with security forces over conscription as well as state and religious affairs.

Officers also raided two mass gatherings in the area, celebrating the Sukkot holiday, one organized by a confirmed virus carrier and another, a Tish (a gathering of Hasidim around their Rebbe), organized by the Zotshka Hasidic Dynasty.

A total of 22 illegally operated prayer houses were closed by the police in Bnei Brak, with dozens of fines handed out to local businesses and residents for violating lockdown rules.

Even in Jerusalem, this was a problem:

In Jerusalem, a police car was pelted with stones by locals during a routine patrol in Shivtei Yisrael Street.

In the capital's predominately ultra-Orthodox Mea Shearim neighborhood, many synagogues operated as usual with complete disregard for health regulations. Some synagogues placed Hasidim "guards" outside, in order to warn the locals when the police are in the area.

"There is no entrance for those not from the community," a Breslav follower from the neighborhood told Ynet. "The police were here but ran away. There is a Tish every Saturday," he brazenly claimed.

"Most of the people here already had coronavirus, including me. Every night there will be an event here, and whoever takes out a phone to take a picture will be jumped on."

Think this is disgusting? Absolutely. It's clear we have here subjects who're not only infected with the illness, they're even willing to spread and make it worse, all for the sake of their twisted, corrupted beliefs of what Judaism is supposed to be.

A columnist at the Jerusalem Post explained the history of how we got to this point, which David Ben-Gurion sadly led to by accomodating their "requests" for exemption from army service, and why it's no shock there'd be such lawlessness at a time of crisis:

But what began with just 400 deferments soon ballooned out of control, and by the mid-1990s, the number of exemptions reached 25,000. Today, it is over 60,000, although exemption from military service is not the only challenge when it comes to the haredim.

Only about 50% of haredi men are employed, in contrast to 87% of non-haredi men. Conversely, it is important to note that 76% of haredi women go out to work, a rise of some 5% in recent years.

But the average wage among haredim who go to work is very low, and this is also reflected in the amount of national and municipal taxes the community pays into the state or city’s coffers. And due to the low standard of living, the state provides large welfare subsidies to the community. Some 55% of ultra-Orthodox children, for example, live below the poverty line, compared with just 9% of other Jewish kids.

To make matters worse, the hostility towards state law enforcement in these enclaves makes it difficult to run patrols there:

There is also the issue of law enforcement within the community. Incidents in which secular Israelis are verbally or even physically attacked when walking through neighborhoods such as Jerusalem’s Mea She’arim are numerous.

On Sunday, Jerusalem Post reporter Jeremy Sharon and chief photographer Marc Israel Sellem were assaulted when trying to report on events in Mea She’arim. One policeman recalled recently how on almost every patrol through the neighborhood, his car was pelted with eggs, and sometimes even concrete blocks.

All of this is important to understand why there is so little adherence to coronavirus regulations among the haredi community, why many haredim refuse to wear masks and to social distance. As they continue to live their lives in defiance of the rules, they also continue to gather in large numbers in synagogues, yeshivas and at weddings.

The bottom line is that they simply feel as if the laws of the state do not apply to them, that they live in a place where they can make their own rules as an autonomous entity within the state.

But this defiance is not exclusive to the haredim. The same, unfortunately, applies to the Bedouin in the South and Arabs in east Jerusalem. In both cases, these sectors at times also behave as if they are above the law, and in the same way that the police are hesitant to enter into the narrow alleyways of Mea She’arim, they think long and hard before venturing into Shuafat or Hura. Illegal construction, seizure of land, failure to pay property tax all slide by due to lax law enforcement in these areas.

This is almost the same in some neighborhoods in the USA, where there's Haredis who've held weddings in New Jersey, and police had to shut them down as well. And it's good that the Islamic disobedience against the state is also being cited, because that too is dangerous, and is bound to become worse one day in the USA.

When authorities turn a blind eye to lawlessness over decades, why would anyone assume that suddenly, something will change because a virus has descended on the population?

For there to be greater cooperation among Israel’s minorities in the fight against COVID-19, they must be made to feel that they are an active and genuine partner in the country, and if they don’t feel that way, they need to be helped to feel that way. And if they can’t be helped to feel that way, they need to be forced to through strict and tough policing that enforces even the most negligible traffic violation.

Looking back to the beginning of the pandemic, the writing was on the wall. It was clear that this social breakdown would occur.

And the most extreme clans probably don't even give a damn that so many people in their community fell ill, and risked traveling to death's door. It's clear they don't even respect biblical rabbi Akiva, who experienced an era when a plague descended on society that sadly cost the lives of a lot of his students. But the difference is that today, there's no heroic Akivas, only a whole bunch of phony Judaists who humiliate the past biblical figures for the sake of an isolationist viewpoint that causes long term damage to society at large.

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