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Israel – Some 6,000 Ecstasy pills were seized Friday during a police raid on two synagogues in Rishon Lezion’s Shikun Hamizrach neighborhood.
Local police, who were tipped off about the drugs a few days ago, found 3,000 Ecstasy pills and a pistol concealed in the ceiling of a synagogue on Shivtei Yisrael Street.
An additional 3,000 pills were found in the bathroom of another synagogue located nearby.
Investigators said the drug dealers, who are still at large, apparently planned to sell the pills at a party that was scheduled to be held in the coming days.
and they say nuchum rosenberg is dreaming
Must have been a real “high” to daven there
I believe the person who planted it their was not a member of that shul. Most shuls are open all day. Anybody could come and go as they please. It is a good hideout. But of course the frum community is blamed. How sad. I really hope no Jews where involved.
Ectasy mit a eksher?
Those bums and chiloni youths happen to frequent the open shuls during the day when the place is usually emptym and same at the late hours of the night. what a shame and real low to use a holy place to hide out drugs! we have to start planting security cameras in all shuls.
that was going to be some kind of a party – to get rid of 6,000 pills!
Ecstacy doesn’t need a heksher except for pesach due to ktnyos.
The bracha on ecstacy?
Tefillos Haderech!
Tragic, that so many Israeli young people are really into X. They are just escaping into fantasy land because of the pain and stress of being constantly under fire and surrounded by enemies who want to kill them. HaShem should have mercy!
A little drugs never killed anybody!! What’s the big deal?
is rishon letzion a hareidy yishuv?
Rishon is the 4th largest city in Israel, so I expect you will get a mix of all kinds of
Jews there. I assume it is a kosher (Orthodox) shul as the number of non orthodox shuls in israel is very small (maybe 10 in the whole country)
BS”D
If anyone knows about the late singer Zohar Argov, this is his old neighborhood. The synagogues there belong to the local religious council and are used for just about everything including dirty business deals and few people in that area are really frum except the old generation from Teiman. Also, in some areas like this, gangsters who pretend to do tshuva open up shuls as fronts; every one of the big crime families in EY nebach has an (erev) rav allied with it. In any case, this is not a normal shul.
I feel just terrible for these dealers! I mean i know we are in tough economic times, but they just lost lots of inventory, and on the flip side, so many israeli kids will now have nothing to do on thursday nights!
there was a frum young guy that was arrested by the FBI one night in monsey for importing and dealing ecstasy pills. it does not matter how frum the person was, or even if he/they were jewish. nevertheless, don’t delude yourselves into thinking that a frum person can’t be a drug dealer