Israel – After two days of calm – riots resume in the capital. Hundreds of haredim from Jerusalem’s Mea Shearim neighborhood on Wednesday clashed with police and blocked roads, while chanting “We’ll fill up prisons.”
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The protesters blocked Shivtei Israel Street and attempted to block another road, but were pushed back by the police. Protestors also hurled stones at police officers and set garbage bins on fire.
Meanwhile, riots also continued in Bnei Brak, where some 200 haredim clashed with police and blocked traffic on Hashomer Street. Police has yet to make arrests.
Rioting at both locations come in response to construction work at Jaffa’s Andromeda complex, where ancient Jewish tombstones are located.
Rioting has centered in Bnei Brak in the past two days, and was mainly carried out by Shababnikim – young haredi youths that are considered “outsiders.”
In Jerusalem, on the other hand, there were two days of relative calm after Monday’s incident in which Interior Minister Eli Yishai was stoned while one his way to offer condolences. The perpetrators were affiliated with an extremist faction called the “Sikrikim” belonging to Neturei Karta.
The Israeli public must hear from the so-called big Rebbbes and Gedolim that violence in protests are not the way of the majority
of Ultra frum and Chareidi yiddin. Their silence in not reaching out in the media to all of Israeli will bring terrible repercussions on innocent Chareidim throughout Eretz Yisroel. This has always been the case.
There should also be a unified stance as to the Halchic merits of the purpose behind the protests.
Everyone has the right to protest but not to break the law which frum people should be an example even more. Shtikah kehodoah- The silence of Chareidim leaders is frightening as to the outcome of the political secular leaders who will instigate (as usual ) the masses against the entire religious populace whom they hate already.
the shabbakinim are off the derech youths who harrass and beat chareidim,definetly not chareidim!
everybody needs a goal
I’m on scene at many of these protests and it’s sad too say but the protesters are not shibobs but are charedim
Its a win win situation. The neturi karta are excited when they have on what to protest and the state is exited to show the religious that they can’t control everyrthing. No one is interested to compromise
Have a smart solution
Stop to take out our holy grandfathers graves & I promise the protest will stop, hope our brothers will not give up against this tzionist rotzcim
I second the solution: stop the digging.
Update: tonight 5 arrested in bnei brak. In yaffo and yerusholaim the police have come to the realisation that arresting doesnt help it just makes the protests worse and have decided to stop arresting unless they catch someone red handed breaking the law! Over the last week over 450 have been arrested and most were kicked out of prison after the police are fed up of hearing them sing, not giving names…
Intresting why no one has a halachic excuse for this digging.pikuach nefesh doesn’t aplly here/
I live 2 min away from shivtay yisroel Where the protest are, and I sow tonight that there was chasidim and no shababnikim, and the same frum yarishalmiyim I sow them tacking 4 garbage bin’s from right in front of my house and now all the trash are all over.
Fill the prisons? At least it will mean good, honest jobs for those who are hard-working and unemployed due to the economic problems. I have no problems putting animals in a cage where they belong.
One simple solution for the police would be to deny those kept in jail anything but food and water (and the food would not be with any special hashgacha. After a few day of no tallis and teffilin, no seforim, no bathing etc. they will beg the authorities for mercy and promise to never again commit violent acts.
The graves they are digging up are Jaffa (Yaffo) and this is a cemetery that was used up to 150 years ago with tombstones still standing. Shouldn’t they riot? What should they do, sit quietly? As Shlomo Hamelech says in his Kohelet עת לזרוק אבנים. Ones man’s violence is another s only weapon to defend what is right.
The dead have no one to stick up for them and if this becomes the standard you can only imagine how the world will just copy. They wouldn’t dare do it to an Arab cemetery.
Its really sad but if you scan the postings over the past few weeks about these riots, you will notice that an increasingly large percentage of the comments are not only disgusted by the the behavior of the chareidim (or whatever you want to call them) but have become so angry that they want to see pain and suffering inflicted upon them by the police as punishment.
sorry, i am not so smart….may be someone can ansewr this for me.
Isnt most of the land in EY full with graves. Isnt it almost certain that kimat wherever youll dig deep some graves will come up?
My question is in general halachically cant one move the kevorim bekuved to har hazeisim or so?
Unbelievable. So many comments from gilgulim of ghetto police members, who were beating and kicking their fellow Jewish brothers on their way to Umshlagplatz.
I cant really believe what I see.
Where are those frumers talking about Achdus and Ahavas Yisruel. With Whom? With this seed of Amulek?
They hate me and my fellow Charedim for everybody knows what reason.
I serve my G-d. I’m not a perfect man but I do everything to my best. So are doing my coreligionist.
But Amulek express his unity only with his brother – Tzioni.
And for this I have full right to hate them.
But my hate doesn’t call for imprisoning, persecuting, starving and shooting. And this is eternal difference between Us and Them.