Jerusalem – In an interview that appeared last night on Israeli television show Hamakor, Beit Shemesh extremist Moshe Friedman offered his views on the recent controversy that has thrust this city of 80,000 into the headlines.
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Friedman, who was just recently released from prison to house arrest after being arrested on a number of charges including common assault, assaulting a public servant, insulting a public servant, obstructing a police officer and spitting at a reporter, will be facing trial in a few weeks.
“No one spat the girls,” said Friedman in the interview. “It didn’t happen. It is a blatant lie.”
When asked if anyone had spat at women, Friedman replied that he didn’t know.
“From age three and up both girls and women are obligated to dress modestly,” explained the twenty seven year old father of two. Friedman was known to stand outside the Orot Banot school daily, shouting ‘Gevald!’ as mothers would bring their daughters to the school, which had become a symbol of the religious conflict in Beit Shemesh.
While Friedman admits that he would never want anyone screaming at his daughter, he blames the clientele at Orot Banot for the controversy, saying that it is clear that the only reason they are situated in the midst of a Chareidi area is to disrupt the neighbors and cause conflict.
While Friedman was in prison at the time the infamous demonstrations that featured people clad in Holocaust era yellow stars, he defended their actions and likened the current actions of the Israeli government to that of the Nazis.
“During the war people with beards were also singled out and treated in despicable ways, just as today, the authorities are clearly looking to torment those who live by the ways of the Torah,” said Friedman.
Friedman told Hamakor that he and fellow extremists just want to live quietly, according to their own values, in their neighborhood.
“In our community, we don’t get any stipends from the government, because once you take money from someone, they have the right to tell you what to do,” said Friedman. “We pray constantly for the day when the government of malice will finally be removed from our land.”
Watch below the full interview.
Why do people who clearly have nothing to do with Yiddishkeit wear religious garb and pretend to speak on behalf of Torah values?
Go streight to jail. you blame everyone but yourself. even worse you say we pray for the day when the govmt will be removed. by which way do you suggest? You dont vote or pay your fair share in taxes, and throw stones at police, only way left would bring bloodshed. the only nazis i see are the ones wearing the clothes trying to portray themselves victim.
We pray constantly for the day when the government of malice will finally be removed from our land.”
It is sad how sick and depraved this person is
Even if his complete insanity was da’as Torah, one simple question. If he doesn’t take anything from them, where were his two children born and who paid for it????? He surely doesn’t have the cash to pay for a birth…
I agree that if itts true that people want to start conflicts its wrong (if that is true I don’t know) and is frusturating but clearly there are ways to deal with it and not to push the matter further
He doesn’t take any money? That’s a lie! They all take money! How else do they support their fanatical views!
And I pray that anyone, whether religious or not religious. who teaches and spreads narrow, baseless hatred, sinas chinam, and causes global chilul Hashem through their barbaric behavior, be removed from our Holy Land. These people cause darkness in Eretz Yisrael, a holy place whose special people whose mission it is to strive to create holiness, light and unity among all Jews and all mankind through Torah..
See that look in the eyes of this idealogue in that photo above? I’ve seen that same look in the eyes of so many Moslems.
How does he support his family does he work,he looks to me that he doesnt know what life is all about extreemly naivet and clueless.
Sadly these ppl are taking a torah true Hashkafa and perverting it. when Zionism started, Rabbanim fought tooth and nail to fight thier deadly ideas from spreading. this included having no contact with the kofrim for fear of being influenced. Satmar, toldos aharon and Brisk held that to take any money from the kofrim was assur. (the Aguda, along with the Chazon Ish, held diffrently) While it is wrong to behave as these people did, we have to keep our Hashlofa straight. Calling these ppl not worthy of klal yisrael is just as much spreading sinas chinam
This is a political argument. When the school was planned ten years ago, it was not near a chareidi community. After 10 years in the making, the neighboring area became more right wing. The chareidim want the building for themselves so they are harassing the original locals. Furthermore, the locals are not prutzim. They cover up pretty. Additionally, if this guy is worried about pritzus, he should practice shmirus einayim and avert his eyes from rather than scream at these children.
I thought they aren’t allowed to have cell phones. He is speaking on one.
The events of the past several months have made it clear that the large percentage of Israelis will no longer tolerate these animals in their midst and recognize them as a greater threat than Hamas. I would be very surprised if he and his cohorts will survive the crushing response that is about to be triggered against them from normal yidden. I feel sorry for his children but that is a price we will have to pay to rid this dreche from our midst.
There was talk of making the chareidi part of Beit Shemesh into a separate municipality. It was quashed because that area could not support its municipal services as the people don’t pay taxes due to low incomes. It then becomes quite obvious that they are taking money from the gov’t in the form of services.
His stance that the others came to the neighborhood of the chareidim is simply false. The Chareidim came to a town that was entirely not chareidi and now have the chutzpa to say they were there first.
To compare what happened during the Holocaust to what he has “experienced” is simply a display of either ignorance or stupidity.
this rasha is appearing on Telivision. …….Which of his rabbis allowed it. ? I am sure his chaverim were watching on the hidden TVs they keep in their bedrooms ….How else would they pass all their free time. .
Nothing wrong with wanting to live a life of tznius. We should all strive to be this way. No one can argue the fact that the Israeli ideology is to remove the torah life style from the majority. What’s wrong with protesting imodest behavior in the midst of a mostly chasidishe neighborhood?. There not protesting in Tel Aviv at the night club strip. Now get this, no one spits -yes , there possibly has been one meshigene that did spit. Every group has their share of sikkos. Every one of your great grand parents were the same type as these chasidim. Respect these keepers of the faith!
The nazis y’s did not just single out Jews with beards, anyone affiliated by name was taken into acount an considered a Jew.
Btw, I know for a fact that this guy learned in a yeshiva that took money from the govt.
It all starts with lack of education…. an insular society which discourages general education and socializing with different types of Jews creates a society of prejudice and distorted thinking. It’s so easy to create a narrow minded society, intolerant of anyone different. This does not require any intelligence, only indoctrination. The real challenge is to create a Torah society of tolerant people who are steadfast to Torah and at the same time value every Jew. A society which realizes that we are all part of a greater body of Am Yisrael.
One of the many problems we face is disunity. The Jewish way is best captured by the example our Sages OBM. Do we really think we will encourage Yidden to cleave to Torah values through violence, anger, and fear? Honey works better than Vinegar. This technique of attacking children, young Jewish women, etc.. is far beneath the Jewish people, and far beneath a Chasid with Payot. I do not know of many Chassidic Rabbanim who would condone such a practice. We will only alienate our perople further…. Kindness, Ahavat Yisrael, will go a lot further…
how is shouting gevalt at yidden going to make them keep better tznius?
show them the beauty of it not the ugliness of the people who keep it.
this man is a disgrace. a machalel shem shomayim b’farhesyah.
yom kippur is not mechaper.
vnikdashti BSOICH bnei yisroel.
he is a liar
midvar sheker tirchok.
this man is not representative of ehrliche yidden
we ehrliche yidden who care must proclaim
ONU MOICHIN. this is not yiddishkeit this is thuggery.
ramban says in parshas kedoishim “al tihyeh novol birshus ha toiroh”
we ehriliche yidden are not like this.
I’m just wondering how he’s been making ends meet. Is someone funding him to stand outside the school all day and shout gevalt? Or is that just his side job and he only does that at the start and close of each school day?
Moishel’a Friedman has a job. He works for the Eidah. (This according to the report.)
As a clarification.
Of the groups that make up the Eidah only Toldas Aron doesn’t officially allow their adherents take money for INDIVIDUALS from the Zionists all others take bituach leumi, kupat cholim etc. The issur is only for Mosdos Hatorah.
The vast majority take for the mosodos Hatorah through selling the teudat ziut numbers to other Yeshivos. There was a din torah a few years back ,regarding Torah Viyirah forcing the parents to supply the citizen number for their children.
The vast majority of eidah adherents take full advantage of the largess of the zionists while cursing them. (The reporter alludes to it)
Only fools believe that Satmar supports the whole Anti-Zionist community in Israel. The majority of Satmarers here in the USA are living in poverty or sustenance level. The satmar mosdos here are in need of huge donations. There is no way to spport 22,000 children in Yeshivos of the Eidah in Israel.
They are deluding you and in most cases themselves by saying they don’t take moneyfrom the Medina. They have others do it for them.
there are basic halachos of tznius, and it has nothing to do with if someone gets aroused because of an eight year olds toes or an eighty year old woman’s either. From the age of three (some say five) a girl must dress properly. There is nothing wrong with someone trying to uphold this.
This shmendrick is making a mockery of judaism. I hope they put him in cheirim along with all the other so called zealots.
events such as these show the need for mutual respect and unity
i pray to God that the jewsih people should unite and learn to tolerate each other no matter what.. God is the judge not us
This guy is a publicity seeker. Serious kanoyim don’t give interviews to papers & of course not to TV. [Most of the self proclaimed kanoyim simpy want action %/or publicity.]
Nevertheless there is some truth to his points. Some of the countering “facts” given are false. Not all but the truth is somewhat in between as it frequently is the case.
Many charedim in Israel work, particularly chassidishe ones.