Bnei Brak – Tens Of Thousands Turn Out For Haredi Political Rally In Bnei Brak

Bnei Brak – Tens of thousands of haredi men and women gathered in Bnei Brak to listen to the words of their rabbis and political representatives urging them to vote for the United Torah Judaism party on Election Day next week.

MKs from the party and the leading rabbis of the community spoke in terms of religious obligation of the importance of voting and the danger of failing to turn up at the voting booth this coming Tuesday.

As the leading rabbis ascended to the stage, including the head of the non-hassidic haredi world Rabbi Aharon Leib Shteinman, thousands upon thousands of men clapped their hands jumping up and down in celebration of the Torah sages in front of them.

When it came to R’ Shteinman’s turn to address the audience he spoke for all of 50 seconds, in his quiet and somewhat slurred Hebrew.

The 102-year old rabbi called on the haredi community to go out and vote saying barely audibly even over the sounds system “it is in your hands to determine if there will be a sanctification of God’s name or a desecration of His name.”

The excitement of the audience was notably dampened by the brief and uninspiring words, with the organizers continuing swiftly to the speeches of the more vigorous rabbinical leaders of the community.

Haredi political leaders have railed against what they describe as the “wicked decrees” of the outgoing government, which sought among other measures to draft haredi men into military service, reform the conversion process and cut various state-paid budgets enjoyed by the haredi sector.

In light of this legislation, the haredi leaders speaking Wednesday night insisted that more than ever it was incumbent upon haredi men and women to go out and vote to “defend the Torah world.”
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