Tel-Chai Nation

A writer at Israel HaYom points out the Haredi community's failure to maintain responsible standards on dealing with Coronavirus, and it's mainly the fault of the leadership:

A tragic accident occurred at Tel Aviv's Sourasky Medical Center: Moshe Harazi passed away after his ventilator's breathing tube disconnected and medical staff failed to notice in time. The hospital's director, Prof. Ronni Gamzu, took full responsibility for the accident.

This is not the common standard. The leaders of the ultra-Orthodox community in the Knesset have hundreds of coronavirus victims on their hands, and none of them are stepping up to take any responsibility for it. The only thing they do is occasionally call for the community to adhere to lockdown guidelines.

MKs Moshe Gafni, Yaakov Litzman, and Aryeh Deri have proven that when something is important to them, they know how to work and shout. Litzman has resigned twice due to the railway construction on Sabbat and lockdown during the High Holidays. Gafni, a veteran representative of the community, has simply disappeared. And even Deri, who can be defined as the responsible adult, fails to protect the people he represents. They are the mouthpiece of the Haredi sector when it comes to the army, religious conversions, and budgets. Those mouths should be screaming now, calling on the Haredi public to protect themselves.

While the MSM has exaggerated some of the claims that the ultra-Orthodox are responsible for the spread of the virus, they're still not innocent of lacking in terms of safety within their own communities, and their failure to take accountability is only making things worse. As are the Satmar, whose extremists caused another ruckus when police went to one of their schools to shut it down for violations:

Police have arrested 15 extremist ultra-Orthodox protesters in the Jerusalem neighborhood of Ezrat Torah while closing down a school operating in violation of the COVID-19 nationwide lockdown.

The police were attempting to shut down a school belonging to the hardline Satmar hassidic community but were confronted by dozens of violent extremists seeking to impede the operation.

In one incident in the same neighborhood, a rock was thrown at a police patrol vehicle, smashing the passenger window and injuring a policeman in the car, although it is not clear if the incident took place during police efforts to close the Satmar synagogue or separately.

Clearance and closure of the school took some two hours, beginning at 9:00 a.m., during which water cannons were used by the police to disperse protesters.

After police successfully closed the school down, dozens of pupils began to dance together outside the premises of the institution.

Reports have also been made of confrontations between police personnel and extremist ultra-Orthodox protestors from the Jerusalem Faction in Beit Shemesh at a school opened in defiance of the lockdown.

Two protestors have reportedly been detained.

On Tuesday night, police discovered a wedding taking place with several dozen guests in the ultra-Orthodox neighborhood of Ramat Shlomo in the capital, also in violation of the lockdown. The police issued a NIS 1,000 fine to the host of the event and the event hall owner and dispersed the celebration.

In Bnei Brak, Channel 12 News reported that a school which was the scene of a large confrontation between police and ultra-Orthodox protesters on Tuesday was open again for studies on Wednesday.

Following footage taken by the news outlet of pupils entering the school, police arrived to fine the school principal and disperse the pupils.

It's truly sick how the clannists are acting violent over all this, and while keeping out of school obviously won't guarantee they won't get sick, neither will staying in school with the way they approach things. Certainly not if they're refusing to take vaccines.

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